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Dizziness and Vertigo

A Brief Insight on the Symptoms and Treatments

More and more people complain about feeling dizzy every day. Some refer to their problem as a feeling of lightheadedness, loss of balance or fainting, others call it vertigo. Generally, when you suffer from vertigo, you feel like rotating in a circle, despite the fact that you stand still. It is like when you get down from a merry go round and you feel that you are spinning when, in fact, you are standing in one place.

Of course, in life, everything happens for a reason. In this case, the reasons may vary from one person to another, but they usually include low blood pressure and infections. As far as the symptoms are concerned, the most important are:

Symptoms

Main Signs

Fainting sensation

Loss of balance

False movement sensation

Nausea

Confusion

Other Signs – They Usually Appear When the Main Symptoms Point to an Underlying Affection

Strange eye movement, like flitting

Vomiting

Headaches

Tinnitus or ear ringing

Problems talking in public

Deafness

Problems with the muscles

Consciousness losses

The Causes behind These Symptoms

Problems with the inner ear – they are behind approximately 50 percent of the dizziness cases and they include affections like the Meniere’s disease, vestibular neuritis, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), acoustic and labyrinthitis and acoustic neuroma.

Anxiety disorders – they are responsible for the above symptoms in up to 15 % of the cases, being the result of repeated panic attacks and phobias.

Brain disorders – they cover approximately 5% of the dizziness cases and they include problems like migraines, strokes, brain tumors and Parkinson’s disease.

Diagnosing the Problems

In order to identify the cause of dizziness, patients have to answer a series of questions regarding the symptoms and not only. The interview is followed by an examination of the blood pressure and even by physical examination and blood glucose tests.                                                                                   

Angiograms and electroencephalograms become necessary when the doctor suspects that the patient suffers from epilepsy.

Treatment Options

Dizziness and vertigo are treated depending on their causes. If they are the result of a bacterial infection, for example, the patient is prescribed antibiotics. For anxiety disorders, specialists recommend therapy.

There are unfortunate cases when the causes cannot be identified and the treatments prescribed include resting in bed, taking medicine to alleviate the feeling of dizziness, pills against nausea, meditation and physical exercises meant to help the sufferer restore balance in his life.

For example, the canalith positioning procedure involves a series of head postures meant to stir the movement of certain particles to be found in one’s ear.

Here are three general things to be kept in mind while looking for information on dizziness and vertigo:

1. No matter the treatment prescribed, patients should see a doctor at the first signs that something is wrong or at the first side effects.

 2. Treatments should be chosen carefully, based on the affection they address and their ingredients.

 3. It is always advisable to rely on facts and specialized opinions.