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Showing posts with label intoxication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intoxication. Show all posts

January 01, 2015

How Alcohol Intoxication Causes Inner Ear Dizziness ("The Spins")

Image courtesy of thephotoholic at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net Alcohol can affect a person's balance via poisoning brain receptors especially in the cerebellum as well as altering the density of fluids within the inner ear. Given this is an ENT blog, the following discussion focuses mainly on alcohol's affect on the inner ear causing dizziness . Normally, blood that enters the inner ear has the same density as the endolymphatic fluid that is normally contained within the inner ear com…
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