The document discusses dizziness, including its types (vertigo, lightheadedness, disequilibrium, syncope), symptoms (headache, vomiting, difficulty walking, vision/speech/hearing changes, fainting, numbness), causes (inner ear infection, migraine, stress, low blood sugar, postural hypotension, dehydration), risk factors (age, past episodes), complications (falling, accidents, untreated issues), and approaches to diagnosis (taking history of current and past issues and medications, performing examination, ordering investigations).
6. Dizziness is broad term, some people
describe it as
Their surroundings
are spinning
Feeling lightheaded or
off balance
7. Types of dizziness
Vertigo such as you spinning or your
environment spinning
Lightheadedness feeling disconnected
with the environment
Disequilibrium a problem with balance
Syncope loss of consciousness or
blacking out
13. The causes of Dizziness
Labyrinthitis – an inner ear
infection that affects hearing and
balance, and can lead to a severe
form of dizziness called vertigo.
Migraine – dizziness may come
on before or after the headache, or
even without the headache.
14. The causes of Dizziness
Stress or anxiety
Low blood sugar level
(hypoglycemia)
15. The causes of Dizziness
Postural hypotension – a sudden
fall in blood pressure when you
suddenly sit or stand up, which
goes away after lying down.
Dehydration or heat exhaustion
– dehydration could be due to not
drinking enough during exercise,
or illness that causes vomiting,
diarrhea or fever.
Broad term= wide = general
Painless head discomfort with many possible causes
Vertigo: feeling of motion when there is no motion,
LH: I also called near-syncope ………it is commonly felt by standing up too quickly or by breathing deeply enough times to produce the sensation.
Dis…: feel like they are going to fall.
PRESYNCOPE
Cardiovascular causes of dizziness include arrhythmias
لابرن ثايتس
1 particularly if you tend to hyperventilate. constriction of blood vessels <<< less blood with less O2 go to the brain
2 Low blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) – which is usually seen in people with diabetes.
heart's inability to pump blood up to the brain sufficiently
Age. Older adults are more likely to have medical conditions that cause dizziness, especially a sense of imbalance. They're also more likely to take medications that can cause dizziness.
A past episode of dizziness. If you've experienced dizziness before, you're more likely to get dizzy in the future.
Trauma resulting in damage to an ear <vertigo
Trauma resulting in damage to an ear <vertigo
Trauma resulting in damage to an ear <vertigo
diabetes ---visual and proprioceptive problems),
hypertension, --- cerebrovascular disease