Your Health A GRAIN OF SALT By Dr. Lenny Salzberg I Above | Cece Adams reaches out to people like her who suffer from Meniere’s disease.
t’s in nearly everything we cook and eat, but Cece Adams has found that avoiding salt has been the answer to coping with a condition called Meniere’s disease. She is even working on a book to
help others battle the disease. Four years ago, while working in her hair salon, Cece Adams felt a sudden and severe wave of vertigo that left her unable to move any part of her body, everything but her eyes, which violently jerked back and forth. She cancelled her appointments for the
rest of day, then the week. Over the next several weeks, her daughter had to help her to the bathroom and bathe her. She was bedridden for months. Adams has since been unable to reopen her popular salon. “It’s like I had a life before that day and a life after that day,” she says. Adams has Meniere’s disease. It causes
the spontaneous episodes of vertigo but often comes with more lingering symptoms as well: balance problems that persist for days, the eye jerking known as horizontal nystagmus, hearing loss, ear pressure and perhaps the most maddening symptom of all, persistent ear ringing known as tinnitus. It is estimated that anywhere from 15 to 157 people per 100,000 suffer from Meniere’s with most receiving a diagnosis in their 40s or
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