First in the World: Vertigo antidote Grown at Head
Balance disorders that are characterized by vertigo or dizziness as floating head is now no longer need medication. For the first time, American scientists successfully embed technology vertigo antidote permanently in the head.
A man from Washington who is unnamed surgery planting tool called a vestibular prosthesis on his head. Men aged 56 to know that patients with Meniere’s disease is a kind of balance disturbances trigger vertigo.
Tools-shaped microchip that is embedded in the head was controlled wirelessly with the device mounted mini behind the ear. Can be activated any time during the vertigo attack occurred and will affect the balance center located in the ear.
“This tool is really just to divert the symptoms. Not to heal, only reduce the vertigo until the actual diseases successfully treated,” said Dr. James Phillips, one of the doctors from the University of Washington who designed the tool in the last 4 years.
To truly heal, the doctor will usually perform surgery to memberan ears were damaged. This step can be overcome vertigo to forever, but sometimes at the expense of hearing function, so patients become a bit deaf.
Quoted from ScienceDaily, Sunday (10/24/2010), Meniere’s disease is a balance disorder that causes sufferers experience dizziness and nausea vomiting. Head feels drift or vertigo and ringing in the ears or tinnitus is a typical symptom of this disease.
In America, Meniere’s disease usually affect adults ages 30 to 50 years. Although most attacks only the left or right ear alone, 30 percent of patients experiencing this disorder in both ears at once.