Neurology Diagnostics

Posts Tagged ‘Dizziness’

One of the most frequent causes of consultation is the dizziness. Vertigo is the sensation of things spinning around each other (objective vertigo) or a tour around things (subjective vertigo).

Dizziness is a feeling of instability, as one walks on cotton, in high and low. These can occur separately or together, and the vast majority of cases are of benign origin, ie, not a brain problem, but on one condition at the ear or vestibular nerve, which is carrying the information from ear to the brain.

The most common causes of vertigo or dizziness of non-cerebral origin (peripheral vestibular syndrome or SVP) are of viral origin (vestibular neuronitis, a viral inflammation of the nerve), at the microscopic mechanical disorders of the ear (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo), by increasing pressure of the endolymph which is a liquid in the internal system of the ear (Meniere’s disease), trauma (vertigo post TEC), infectious (syphilis) and others.

The SVP is often accompanied by severe nausea, vomiting, sweating, cold and long malaise. Depending on the cause, can last a couple of days, or chronic. It is with rest, light food and drugs that decrease the dizziness / vertigo (antivertiginosos) and drugs that reduce nausea (antiemetic) and the prognosis is generally good. Read the rest of this entry »