Meniere Disease and Hearing Aids

Meniere Disease and Hearing Aids

Patients with unilateral Meniere Disease often a distortion that causes difficulties to provide hearing aids to these patients. Those patients have two main problems: disorders in noise comprehension due to interaural threshold difference and increase in the distortion during dizziness crisis.

Due to these problems, some people cannot be fitting with hearing aids because the compression needed is too high or the discomfort in noise is not bearable for patients.

Our aim is to evaluate and to propose a way to adjust hearing aids to restore binaural hearing with comfort.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age over 18 y.o
• Meniere disease as define by the Barany Society
• Unilateral deafness with a threshold over 50dB
• Normal ear with a threshold above 30dB
• Interaural threshold difference of at least 30dB
• Patient who has already an hearing aids and satisfied with it

Exclusion Criteria:

• Absence of consent of the patient or not able to give it
• Patient with hearing aids well fitted