autoimmune cross-targeting and Meniere's disease of the inner ear

Hypothesis: The cross-targeting of infections at the same tissue causes autoimmune disease.  One infection marks the outside while another marks the inside...only then does the immune system become confused and attack. A virus like herpes marks the inside of the cell while an infection such as candida marks the outside....the target cell in this case is the labyrinthectomy or vestibular nerve of the inner ear.

There could be more than one infection that triggers. The Key is one must be a virus and one an outer infection.

Meniere's as an autoimmune disease

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568997212000092

Auto-antibodies in Meniere's disease
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9023245
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8694139
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8361306
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6207756 (antibodies to collagen)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10983953 (antibodies to hsp70)

note that pathogens use collagen to invade the host
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22537156

viral antibodies and anti-heat shock protein 70 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18229786

Antiviral treatment controlled vertigo in 73 of 86 patients...so a virus is there too.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19142031

Herpes virus and meniere's
https://ispub.com/IJORL/4/2/3279
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7619410
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12972911
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9006503
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1337422

disproven?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18235203
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18235203


meniere's could  be triggered by other viruses that infect the nerve
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19142031
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18235200
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15235799

gluten and meniere's disease (evidence of an infection that crosses barriers)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22253033
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23374485
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10889484

I am looking at 2 types of infections: spirochetes or fungal infections as the outer infection.

syphilis and meniere's
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6591683
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9282459
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1843169
 Treponema pallidum

Lyme disease and meniere's
http://mylymediseasetreatment.com/lyme-disease-general/singer-songwriter-ryan-adams-bout-with-menieres-disease-is-he-really-suffering-from-lyme-disease/

Meniere's disease and high cortisol (high cortisol seems to go with spirochetes)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16272945
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15925138

because of the high cortisol cataracts can occur?

is the spirochete form connected to oscillapsia ?
http://www.healthboards.com/boards/lyme-disease/914576-balance-lyme-including-oscillopsia.html

meniere's testimonials connecting to Fungal infections
http://joebongiorno.com/menieres-disease
http://archotol.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=649461

gluten with candida not celiac
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19549274
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12383098

(note that for a while on this blog  I thought gluten/casein indicated a dimorphic infection but LON the enzyme responsible for switching is not gluten sensitive so the new hypothesis that gluten and casein cause inflammation in barrier crossing infections.)

Hypothyroid with meniere's
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14967756

blog post connecting Hashimoto's thyroid, sjogren's, and asperger's (fungal)
http://angelabiggs.blogspot.com/2013/08/aspergers-sjogren-and-hosimotos-overlap.html

Sjogren's, water channels, and meniere's
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22732097
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19096777
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16974147
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23382834

Candida, biofilms and waterchannels (biofilm is how it sticks to the walls)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15496122
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11526156