2023-09-01 09:38:34
Dizziness is a common symptom that anyone can experience at least once, and 20-30% of people will experience dizziness during their lifetime. The incidence of dizziness increases with age, and it is known that the prevalence of dizziness increases by 10% for every 5 years of age in those over 60 years old.
Symptom
Patients express various feelings such as feeling that they or their surroundings are spinning or being pushed to one side, floating or numb feeling, and feeling heavy in the head. For example, the sensation you get after spinning in one direction, after exercising on a treadmill, or after riding a boat or walking on a trampoline and coming down to the ground.
Accompanying symptoms of dizziness
If dizziness is a false sense of speed, incorrectly measured speed information affects eye movement, posture maintenance, and blood pressure maintenance. For example, when we lower our head to turn and stand up, we feel things spinning, our body leaning to one side, sweating, paleness, and nausea in addition to dizziness. Therefore, symptoms of blurred vision or blurred focus, helplessness, feeling of leaning to one side or falling, or actually falling, digestive disorders, and nausea that patients with dizziness complain of can of course be accompanied.
a situation that causes dizziness
Dizziness can be created by normal people through unnatural and artificial stimuli, but the causes of dizziness that occur during daily life are diseases or malfunctions of the vestibular organs, visual organs, and somatosensory organs that transmit speed, and interpretation of them in combination. It is caused by a disease or malfunction of the brain. In particular, it is most often caused by diseases of the vestibular organ and brain. Therefore, depending on the location of the disease that causes dizziness, it is sometimes divided into peripheral dizziness and central dizziness. Depending on the disease that causes dizziness, the intensity, clinical features, and prognosis of dizziness also vary.
prevention
Depending on the cause of the dizziness, appropriate preventive actions may be helpful. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is known to be associated with a decrease in vitamin D, and vitamin D supplementation can reduce recurrence. In Meniere’s disease, the evidence is not established, but it is known that a high-salt diet and caffeine intake are associated with vertigo attacks. Therefore, a low-salt diet and reducing caffeine intake can also be good lifestyle habits to reduce vertigo attacks in Meniere’s disease. Excessive stress and insomnia are aggravating factors of various dizziness attacks, so it is recommended to control stress and get enough sleep. Since stroke and transient ischemic attack can be prevented by controlling high blood pressure, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia, it is also important to check the risk factors for vascular disease and take necessary medications steadily.
When to go to the hospital
If you have dizziness, it is recommended to visit a hospital for diagnosis and treatment. Depending on the type and severity of dizziness, you may need to visit the emergency room or outpatient treatment may be more appropriate. The emergency room and outpatient procedures are quite different. While emergency departments can provide appropriate care when assessing serious life-threatening conditions or when symptoms are so severe that they require intervention, outpatient care may be more appropriate for detailed cause evaluation and long-term management. Therefore, it is appropriate to visit the emergency room if severe dizziness lasts for more than ten minutes or is accompanied by slurred speech or double vision, or weakness or loss of control of the limbs. If mild dizziness occurs repeatedly or persists, more detailed evaluation and long-term management can be obtained through outpatient treatment rather than visiting the emergency room.
Source: National Information Portal
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