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Huntingtons disease
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Rare, familial, progressive, degenerative disease that is passed generation to generation( dominant inheritance)
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Trigeminal neuralgia ( TIC DOULOUREUX)
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Assessment: stabbing or burning facial pain excruciating, unpredictable, paroxysmal, twitching, grimacing of facial muscles.
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Analysis: type of neuralgia involving one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve. Causes: infections of sinuses, teeth, mouth, or irritation of nerve from pressure
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Meniere's Disease.
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Assess: N/V, incapacitating vertigo , tinnitus, feeling pressure or fullness in the ear fluctuating decreased hearing on involved side, nystagmus headache. Diagnosed: dilation of the membrane of the labyrinth, attacks recur several time a week, diagnosed with weber and rinne test, CT
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Drug therapy: In acute phases antihistamines ( epinephrine, Benadryl), antiemetics ( compazine) , antivertigo meds (antivert, reglan, Valium, tigan, ) and diuretics( dyazide)
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