Dizziness

A condition in which a person feels that the objects surrounding him or her (or) his own body move or rotate in a certain direction (systemic dizziness). But often a person can not say exactly in which direction he and everything around him are moving (non-systemic dizziness). It happens that a person only notes his instability and instability (staggering, trembling) of the space around him, the feeling of tipping the head, the movements of the legs and the trunk in one direction (more often upward), and the heads in the Other (more often down in the supine position) Falling into the abyss. There is dizziness when there is inconsistency with the work of the organs of vision and the central nervous system responsible for the sense of the position of the body in space (kinesthetic) and the sense of balance (vestibular).
There are many causes of dizziness. It can also occur in absolutely healthy people, for example, when looking down from a great height or when viewing clouds, if you stand near a high-rise building, then it appears that the clouds are not moving and the building is tilting. Dizziness occurs if you swing around your axis for a long time, and then stop.
Vertigo as a manifestation of the disease can be caused by a disease of the inner ear, when an inflammatory or a tumor process affects the vestibular (equilibrium) apparatus. Such patients usually suffer from inflammation of the inner ear (otitis) for a long time, first they have a hearing loss, and then dizziness appears. In case of tumor lesions, seizures occur against a background of hearing loss, ringing in the ear, and dizziness attacks gradually increase and intensify.
Very dizzy with a sharp turn of the head to the side, when getting up in the morning from bed, tipping the head backwards (during wallpapering, hanging clothes, removing the book from the top shelf), with a long inclination of the head to the side or anteriorly (weeding, car repair, long Sleep in the train or bus), sometimes when walking "hurls aside." Such dizziness is caused by spasm or clenching of the vertebral artery, which supplies blood to the brain responsible for the balance.
Dizziness may occur with high or low blood pressure, poisoning, with loss of fluid (vomiting, diarrhea) or blood loss (bleeding). It is accompanied by dizziness and anemia (lack of red blood cells in the blood - red blood cells), high fever.
Recognition of vertigo is simple, based on complaints of the patient, characteristic symptoms (drunken gait, the patient's attempts to grasp the surrounding objects, the inability to stand or sit, frequent rhythmic twitching of the eyes (when looking to the side or up).
Treatment and first aid. At a dizziness of the patient to put on a back so that the head, a neck and shoulders of it laid on a pillow because in such position the excess of vertebral arteries is excluded. You should avoid turning your head to the side, you need to open the windows, ventilate the room, put a cold bandage on your forehead, you can just moisten it with vinegar. After measuring the pressure and temperature, take measures to normalize them, at a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute or irregular heartbeat, and if nausea and multiple (more than 3 times) vomiting have accompanied dizziness, you need to call an ambulance. The prognosis depends on the nature of the dizziness.