what are treatments for Meniere's disease?

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Recommended Adult Lifestyle Changes To Reduce The Frequency Of Ménière’s Disease Episodes

-Avoid alcohol, caffeine, excessive fatigue, smoking, and streess
-Eat properly
-Get plenty of sleep
-Remain physically active
-low salt diet
-a diuretic (water pill) may reduce the frequency of attacks
-Anti-vertigo medications, e.g., Antivert® (meclizine generic), or Valium® (diazepam generic), may provide temporary relief.
-Anti-nausea medication is sometimes prescribed

In Severe Cases Surgery may be Recommended?

-Intratympanic treatment, also known as chemical labyrinthotomy, is an office procedure in which a medicine, such as gentamicin, is injected into the middle ear. Other medicines may be used. Gentamicin is an antibiotic that causes a partial loss of balance function in the treated ear, controlling vertigo in about three fourths of cases and usually preserving hearing. Apart from a period of disequilibrium that can occur as the patient adjusts to the new level of balance function, this treatment is usually very well tolerated.
It is also significantly simpler and less invasive than other surgical treatments.
-The endolymphatic shunt or decompression procedure is an ear operation that is usually preserves hearing. Attacks of vertigo are controlled in one-half to two-thirds of cases, but control is not permanent in all cases. Recovery time after this procedure is short compared to the other procedures.
-Selective vestibular neurectomy is a procedure in which the balance nerve is cut as it leaves the inner ear and goes to the brain. Vertigo attacks are permanently cured in a high percentage of cases, and hearing is preserved in most cases.
-Labryrinthectomy and eighth nerve section
are procedures in which the balance and
hearing mechanism in the inner ear are destroyed on one side. This is considered when the patient with Ménière’s disease has poor hearing in the affected ear. Labryrinthectomy and eighth nerve section result in the highest rates for control of vertigo attacks....Show more

This is tought o treat. I think the worst of it is the veritigo which can render the victem to bed for days. Please make sure you have it and it is not something else. I knew someone with it and in the end, they just had a severe ear infection. It is treated very similar to sea sickness....Show more