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Sent to Health Experts November 26, 2007 1:59 p.m.

My 13 year old son has been complaining for several months about being dizzy and nauseous. I took him to the doctor and they said that they thought he had fluid in his inner ear which was causing the equilibrium to be "off" which caused the dizziness and then the nausea. They said to lower his salt intake; give him motion sickness pills (Dramamine) and see how he responds. He's still not getting better. Do you think a 13 year old could have Miniere's Disease? (sorry, my spelling is off!).

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Male, Age: 13, California

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dramamine pills; some medicine that the doctor said that will make my son "pee" alot which will help remove some of the fluid in his inner ear area

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November 26, 2007 3:21 p.m. (1 hour and 21 minutes later)

Does he have any deafness or hearing problems?

Has he had any scans or investigations?

When is the nausea/dizziness worse?

What happens when he turns over in bed?

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Sent November 26, 2007 3:32 p.m. (10 minutes and 49 seconds later)

He does not currently have any deafness or hearing problems that I'm aware of.

He has had no scans - xrays, MRI, CAT etc...

I'm not sure when it is worse. It seems to come and go - at no particular time of day.

I'll have to ask him about turning over in bed. He did say that one night while he was sleeping he woke up and was so dizzy - it scared him. Maybe he turned over in his sleep?

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November 26, 2007 3:37 p.m. (5 minutes and 9 seconds later)

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I would take him to an ENT doctor if he hasn't seen one yet. This is unlikely to be Meniere disease due to lack of hearing loss, also if he had excess fluid in middle ear then I would also have expected some hearing loss. He needs to have a proper hearing assessment and I would ask his doctor to assess him for benign positional vertigo. This is assessed by a series of movements and is very easily treated by further movement. If this is not successful and middle ear infection has been ruled out then he needs to have a CT scan to look for possible causes of raised intra cranial pressure as this can present with nausea and vomiting.

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