That day, a friend told me about a thrilling scene he experienced: he wanted to go to dinner at night, and the moment he entered the restaurant, he suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and the whole scene in front of him turned to one side, and he couldn’t stand up. Lie down on the table, not daring to open your eyes, because as soon as you open your eyes, the world is spinning.
At this moment, he broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't know what went wrong, and he had a strong sense of dying. Thanks to the well-meaning people around, they called an ambulance for him and sent him to the hospital. As a result, the doctor diagnosed him with a strange disease called "otolithiasis"!
Later, through the doctor's manual reset, his problem was solved.
After I heard it, I screamed in my heart. At the same time, I told him that this "ottolith disease" is a very common disease. Among the patients with normal vertigo, about 50% of them, or even more than Fifty percent of patients suffer from this disease. However, because people don’t know much about it, and even many doctors don’t know about it, so many patients think they are suffering from cerebral insufficiency or cervical spondylosis. , treated everywhere, costing tens of thousands, but the final result was "otolithiasis". After reset, he was cured soon!
Many people have had this experience: when they get up and sit up in the morning, when they are lying down at night, or when they turn over to one side in the middle of the night, they will suddenly appear violent dizziness, sometimes even just doing the movements of raising and lowering their heads Can induce dizziness. If you have such symptoms, don't go to the doctor. In most cases, it is caused by otolithiasis.
So, what exactly is otolithiasis? Could it be that there are stones in our ears?
It's true, each of us has stones in our ears! But it's so tiny that it can only be seen under a microscope. Otoliths are fine, gray carbonic substances that adhere to the vestibule in the inner ear. Although they are small, they are very effective. Their main function is to let the human body sense linear acceleration. For example, even if we doze off when we are in the car, we can still feel the sudden braking, which is the otoliths transmitting information.
So, why do otoliths fall off? Why does shedding make us dizzy?
It turns out that in our body, there is a layer of gelatinous membrane on the surface of the utricular plaque and the spherical plaque connected to the semicircular canal in the inner ear, and the otoliths are attached to this layer of gelatinous membrane. When the otolith falls off, it rolls into the semicircular canal and floats up and down in the endolymph of the semicircular canal. When the head turns, it will stimulate the semicircular canal hair cells, resulting in dizziness.
So, why do we have otolithiasis?
For this disease, medicine is still in the process of groping. Generally speaking, the etiology can be divided into two categories, one is idiopathic called otolithiasis, which is due to its own reasons; the other is secondary Inflammation of the semicircular canals or ischemic damage caused by viral infection, ear trauma, etc., resulting in loss of otoliths. In addition, the incidence of osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly female patients in foreign studies is as high as 75%, while that in the normal control group is only 4%, which shows that there may be some specific links between osteoporosis and otolithiasis .
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, I think this disease is related to the imbalance of liver and gallbladder, the discomfort of liver qi, and the lack of righteousness.
This disease mostly occurs in middle-aged people, and it is often caused by sudden changes in head position or body position, resulting in severe dizziness. Vertigo occurs when the head position is stimulated (affected ears are down), nystagmus occurs within 3 to 10 seconds after the head position is changed, and vertigo usually lasts within 60 seconds and may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Vertigo can be aggravated or relieved periodically, and there may be no discomfort or dizziness during the intermittent period. Individual patients may have a long period of lightheadedness and floating sensation after the onset of vertigo. At the time of onset, mild patients will be relieved quickly, and severe patients will feel dizzy, unable to stand, and vomit at the same time, which lasts for a long time.
So, friends will ask, how to treat this disease?
The answer is: quickly go to the ENT Department of a regular hospital nearby.
In fact, the treatment of otolithiasis is relatively simple, patients only need to receive otolith reset therapy. Otolith reset therapy is actually the patient lying on the bed with the assistance of an otolaryngologist, suspending the head in the air and then turning it in different directions. After repeated several times, the otolith returns to its original position. The whole treatment process does not require medication. And the curative effect is more obvious.
It needs to be pointed out again that people don’t know enough about this disease. Many people think it’s caused by cerebral insufficiency or cervical spondylosis. There have been patients who responded that according to the insufficiency of cerebral blood supply, they were given intravenous drips and cost tens of thousands of dollars. The reason was accidental. , I just heard about this disease, so I went to the ENT department for manual reduction. After about ten minutes, I got out of bed and was cured, and I immediately felt relieved.
A friend said: "I have had a medical examination, and it really shows that I have insufficient blood supply to the brain?!" In fact, many people nowadays have insufficient cerebral blood supply, and many people have poor cervical spine. At this time, otolithiasis appeared at the same time. You went in the wrong direction to treat insufficient blood supply to the brain.
How can I describe this matter? It's like, the sewer in your house is blocked, the faucet is broken, and water flows all over the floor. At the same time, your children are playing with water guns on the ground and spraying water everywhere.
At this time, the main cause is the faucet and sewer. If this problem is solved, flooding will not occur. However, at this time, check whether the child is playing in the water, yes, the child is playing in the water, the inspection is clear, there is this problem, so I went to catch the child playing in the water, no matter how I caught it, there was still a flood at home.
In fact, this is a logical problem, but in clinical practice, such errors occur every day.
The manual reset of otolithiasis is very simple. I really hope that every clinician understands this, because as far as I know, there are not a few patients who wrongly treat cervical spine and cerebrovascular diseases because of this disease.
Especially for emergency doctors, if they know how to reset with this method, some emergency patients who are in dire straits can be resolved immediately, so that patients will not have to wait in pain.
Dear friends, if you have similar problems, do you now have a treatment direction in mind?
