Many people think that dizziness is a minor problem, such as dizziness when hungry, dizziness around menstruation, dizziness when standing up after squatting for a long time. In general, occasional dizziness or dizziness due to a change in position is not a big problem and should not be a major concern. However, if you are dizzy for a long time, you should pay attention to it, because long-term dizziness or frequent dizziness may be a precursor to serious illness.
Dizziness is a comprehensive condition and is one of the clinical manifestations of many diseases. The following causes of dizziness are common.
First, neurological lesions: such as cerebral ischemic lesions, cerebellar lesions, brain lesions, traumatic brain injury, and certain types of epilepsy. In addition, patients with plant nerve dysfunction and certain neurological disorders may also often feel dizzy.
Second, ear diseases: such as diseases in the ear that affect the balance and cause dizziness.
Third, internal diseases: such as hypertension, hypotension, various cardiovascular diseases, anemia, infection, poisoning, and hypoglycemia.
Fourth, colds: sometimes colds may be accompanied by symptoms of dizziness.
Fifth is cervical bone degeneration: due to long-term posture or poor sleeping posture, resulting in cervical vertebrae hyperplasia, deformation, degeneration, tightening of the neck muscles, arterial blood supply is blocked so that the brain blood supply is insufficient, is the main original dizziness often neck tightness, limited flexibility, occasional pain, numbness, cold, a sense of heaviness.
Sixth, anemia: if there is dizziness accompanied by weakness and pale face, the possibility of anemia should be considered. In a healthy state, the amount of hematopoietic tissue present in the body as well as the quality and quantity of hematopoiesis has decreased in the elderly, and the aging of the red blood cells themselves makes their utilization of iron much less than before. Therefore, if the elderly do not pay attention to nutritional health care, they will easily suffer from anemia. In addition… Patients with dyspepsia, peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding and chronic inflammatory diseases can be secondary to anemia.
Seven, high blood viscosity: hyperlipidemia and thrombocytosis can increase blood viscosity and slow blood flow, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain, which can easily lead to fatigue, dizziness and weakness. There are many causes of hyperlipidemia, the most important one is the unreasonable structure of diet, patients eat a lot of high-fat and cholesterol food, and do not like to exercise. At present, the incidence of this type of disease has a rising trend.
Eight is cerebral arteriosclerosis disease: patients feel dizzy, and often insomnia, tinnitus, emotional instability, forgetfulness, and numbness of the limbs. Cerebral arteriosclerosis makes the internal diameter of cerebral blood vessels smaller and blood flow in the brain decreases, resulting in insufficient blood and oxygen supply to the brain, causing dizziness.
Nine is heart disease, early coronary heart disease: symptoms are still light, some people may not have chest tightness, palpitations, shortness of breath and other significant discomfort, only feel headache, dizziness, weakness of the limbs, mental concentration, tinnitus or forgetfulness, etc.. The main reason for dizziness at this time is atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries of the heart, which makes the lumen thinner and narrower, causing ischemia and lack of oxygen to the heart. And insufficient blood supply to the heart can cause insufficient blood supply and cause dizziness.
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The best solution for dizziness is prevention. For example, quit smoking and drinking, avoid raw, cold, greasy and too salty, too spicy and too acidic food; eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, bean sprouts, melons, black fungus, celery, water chestnuts, beans, milk, fish, shrimp, etc.; appropriate physical activity, maintain a happy and calm state of mind, etc.
Six major causes of dizziness in the elderly
1, anemia elderly people who have dizziness, weakness, pale performance, should go to the hospital to check to see if anemia. In a healthy state, the amount of hematopoietic tissue present in the body of the elderly as well as the quality and quantity of hematopoiesis has declined, and the aging of the red blood cells themselves makes their utilization of iron much worse than before. Therefore, the elderly are prone to anemia if they do not pay attention to nutritional care. In addition, anemia can be secondary to indigestion, peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding and chronic inflammatory diseases in elderly patients.
2. High blood viscosity, hyperlipidemia and thrombocytosis can increase blood viscosity and slow blood flow, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain and symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness and weakness. There are many causes of hyperlipidemia, the most important one is the unreasonable structure of diet, patients eat a lot of high-fat and cholesterol food, and do not like to exercise. At present, the incidence of this type of disease has a rising trend.
3, cerebral arteriosclerosis patients feel dizzy, and often insomnia, tinnitus, emotional instability, forgetfulness, and numbness of the limbs. Cerebral arteriosclerosis makes the internal diameter of cerebral blood vessels smaller, and blood flow in the brain decreases, resulting in insufficient blood supply and oxygen supply to the brain, causing dizziness.
4, cervical spondylosis Often neck tightness, limited flexibility, occasional pain, numbness and coldness of the fingers, and a feeling of heaviness. Cervical spine hyperplasia squeezes the vertebral artery in the neck, causing insufficient blood supply to the brain, which is the main cause of dizziness in this disease.
5, hypertension hypertension patients in addition to dizziness, but also often accompanied by head swelling, panic, irritability, tinnitus, insomnia and other discomforts.
6, heart disease early coronary heart disease, the symptoms are still light, some people may not have chest tightness, palpitations, shortness of breath and other significant discomfort, only feel headache, dizziness, limb weakness, mental concentration, tinnitus or forgetfulness, etc.. The main reason for dizziness at this time is atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries of the heart, which makes the lumen thinner and narrower, causing ischemia and lack of oxygen to the heart. Insufficient blood supply to the heart, on the other hand, can cause insufficient blood supply and cause dizziness.
Dizziness may be a manifestation of cervical spondylosis
All types of cervical spondylosis can manifest with headache, dizziness, numbness of the scalp, numbness of the hands, shoulder pain, and even with nausea and heartburn. Early symptoms of cervical spondylosis are not very obvious and can recover on their own, so many young people are completely unaware of the onslaught of cervical spondylosis. Once the pain is chronic, recovery is not easy.
At present, the main cause of cervical spondylosis is to maintain the same posture for a long time, muscle stiffness, fatigue triggered by cervical pain. Nowadays, more and more people work in a sedentary manner, repeating the same work posture almost every day, especially with the popularity of computers, many people are keen on surfing the Internet, playing games, etc. Sitting in front of the computer for hours, it is easy to cause muscle strain and accelerate the degeneration of the cervical spine.
If you find unexplained headache, dizziness, scalp numbness, hand numbness, shoulder pain, even accompanied by nausea, panic and other symptoms, it is best to first seek medical attention from an orthopedic specialist. Do not easily accept the treatment of those massage therapists without professional medical training, which will lay a great hidden danger to the cervical spine. For the initial onset of cervical spondylosis, you can do physical therapy, adjust work and life habits can be. For the longer course of cervical spondylosis, improper massage may lead to further damage to the soft tissue. More seriously, long-term vigorous massage repeatedly act on the cervical spine intervertebral discs, small joints and ligaments, will destroy the stability of the cervical spine, accelerate the degeneration of the intervertebral disc protrusion, so that the cervical spinal cord is more seriously compressed, accelerating the development of cervical spondylosis.
(1) Because cervical spondylosis involves the cervical muscles, it causes lasting spasmodic contraction of the cervical muscles, resulting in impaired blood circulation of the muscles, which can free lactic acid, 5-hydroxytryptamine, bradykinin and other pathogenic substances and cause dizziness.
(2) Cervical spondylosis directly stimulates, compresses, or pulls headache-sensitive tissues in the head and causes dizziness.
(3) The lesion can irritate, compress or damage the first, second or third pair of cervical nerves and cause headache, especially in the occipital region, and can also cause pain radiating to the head through the reflex action of the medulla oblongata or the trigeminal nucleus of the spinal cord.
(4) The lesion may stimulate or compress the sympathetic plexus around the pushing vein or other sympathetic nerves in the cervical area, causing dizziness due to impaired diastole of the vertebrobasilar system or the intracranial and external arteries.
(5) In patients with cervical spondylosis of the pushing vein type, the lesion directly involves the pushing vein, resulting in dizziness due to insufficient blood supply to the vertebrobasilar system.
Which cervical spondylosis is prone to dizziness?
1. dizziness, as well as blurred eyes, blurred vision, headache and facial discomfort.
2. When the head and neck are overly active, sudden and severe dizziness, nausea and vomiting, weakness of both lower limbs, tinnitus, sweating, ataxia (the patient’s eyes are closed and the finger cannot point to the tip of his nose) and other symptoms may occur;
3. in severe cases, sudden dizziness and collapse, which cannot be controlled autonomously.
4, hoarseness of pronunciation, difficulty in swallowing, overlapping of eyes (medically called diplopia), and mild paralysis manifestations.
Clinical manifestations
The clinical manifestation of this disease is characterized by dizziness and vertigo. In mild cases, the disease is characterized by dizziness, light-headedness, or a sense of swaying and floating, which stops when the eyes are closed; in severe cases, it is like riding in a car or boat, with rotating vision, or even a desire to fall. It may be accompanied by astringent eyes and tinnitus, little sleep and forgetfulness, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees; or nausea and vomiting, pale face, cold sweat, etc. The interval between attacks varies in length and can be once every few months or several times a month. It can be triggered by emotional and mental discomfort, but it can also start suddenly and get worse gradually. If vertigo is accompanied by head swelling and pain, irritability, and numbness and tremor of the limbs. You should be alert to the occurrence of stroke.
In addition to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular factors, cervical spondylosis and otolithiasis should not be ignored.