Do you know? The vast majority of vertigo is related to the ears

The sky is spinning, the root of the disease is in the ear? Otitis externa, a bit of abrasive... The two ears on our heads, daily conscientiousness is not "stealing the scene", once something goes wrong, it is also a moment of restlessness. BenQ Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Yangzi Evening News, and Yangtze Famous Doctor Group recently jointly held a live broadcast of the hospital, coming to benQ Hospital's Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and nearly 600,000 netizens and anchors explored the secrets of the ear together.

Correspondent Li Na Jiang Jiajia Ding Xi

Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Lu Yanlin Yang Yan

Vertigo examination room of the Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

"What's New" in the Temple:

The smart clinic allows patients to see the problems in the ears

At the beginning of the live broadcast, the anchor of the Yangtze Famous Medical Group found that the otolaryngology head and neck surgery room of BenQ Hospital was different, and there were large electronic screens opposite the examination chairs in the clinic. Liu Honggang, deputy director of the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, introduced that this is a visual wisdom clinic, and intuitive images can help solve better communication between patients and doctors.

Liu Honggang introduced that the structure of the ear, the cavity is deep, through the endoscopy, the doctor can see the situation in the ear, but in the general examination room, the patient is simply invisible. Doctors explain easy to use professional language, patients know a lot of situations, but in the wisdom clinic, what the doctor sees, the patient can also see on the screen, the patient can see the location of the lesion in real time, the doctor can analyze the condition at any time. If you still don't understand, the clinic is also equipped with a three-dimensional dynamic model of the corresponding disease, so that the patient can clearly understand the condition during the treatment.

During the live broadcast, Liu Honggang, deputy director of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, introduced the visual consultation room to everyone.

Sit on a "chair" and find out the cause of dizziness

"Well, we open our eyes and don't blink for 20 seconds." In the vertigo examination room of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at BenQ Hospital, the patient puts on an eye mask and sits in an empty chair with a round and slippery "big guy" attached to the chair, and the tiny movements of the patient's eyeballs inside the eye mask are magnified and simultaneously transmitted to the computer screen in front of the examiner. For 20 seconds, if the patient does have a vertigo condition, its spontaneous nystagmus may be recorded through the camera.

Huang Jie, deputy chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery of Nanjing BenQ Hospital, told the anchor that this Slima diagnostic instrument and nystagmus view examination platform can check 13 items of vestibular function, which are related to vertigo. Through this treatment instrument, not only can you find out the culprit of vertigo, but also treat, such as the vertigo caused by simple otolithias, about 5 minutes of treatment, you can complete the examination and reduction of otoliths.

Huang Jie, deputy chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, introduced the knowledge related to vertigo.

Expert Reminder:

Be careful that children's colds can easily cause "ear pain"

In this live broadcast, Deputy Director Liu Honggang explained to netizens that many ears are prone to inflammation, enriching everyone's medical knowledge about the ear. For example, acute otitis externa, which has a higher incidence, often has a history of pulling out the ear before the onset of the disease, and the ear is damaged to lead to secondary infection, and pulling the ear often produces traction pain; and chronic fungal otitis externa, because the fungus blocks the eardrum, often appears itchy and stuffy.

Deputy Director Liu Honggang specially reminded parents to pay attention to the "ear pain" that often appears in children with colds in autumn and winter, this pain is often very intense, and often let parents take their children to the doctor in the middle of the night, in fact, because of the cold induced acute otitis media. "The tympanic chamber of our ears has a pipe to the nasopharynx, called the Eustachian tube. Adult Eustachian tubes are arched and curved, while children's Eustachian tubes are shorter and straighter than those of adults, so secretions during a cold are easily stimulated by the Eustachian tubes to the ears, forming inflammation. Deputy Director Liu Honggang reminded that the treatment of acute otitis media caused by colds also requires medication for the nasal cavity in order to quickly control symptoms and alleviate the pain of small patients.

During the live broadcast, the patient is being tested for the cause of vertigo

Most of the dizziness is actually related to the ears

Clinically, more than 70% of vertigo belongs to peripheral vertigo, most of which is related to the ear, especially the vestibular and semicircular canals of the inner ear, which are closely related, and many patients with vertigo do not know.

Deputy Chief Physician Huang Jie also told netizens in the live broadcast that vertigo is a common disease in otolaryngology head and neck surgery, and patients with vertigo account for about 7% of the outpatient volume of OTS. Vertigo can occur at various ages, children are common benign paroxysmal vertigo, women are prone to vestibular migraine caused by vertigo, and the elderly often due to systemic diseases such as cardiovascular disease or age cause vestibular dysfunction decline, causing vertigo. So, vertigo can appear at all ages. Generally, after the patient arrives at the consultation room, a simple medical history inquiry and physical examination are carried out, followed by a detailed ear examination and vestibular function examination to find out the cause of vertigo, according to the clear cause of treatment, if the patient's symptoms are relatively mild, the problem can be solved in the outpatient clinic.

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EDIT: Yan Jing