6 signs that dizziness is dangerous to life

Just say that in most cases of vertigo are not dangerous. They carry only one risk: feeling vertigo (so called this feeling of scientists), you greatly if not lucky, can stumble, fall and earn a sprain or bruise. And most likely, it will not even do that.

However, there are times when really dizzy allows to suspect a serious health problem.

Why dizzy

In general, the causes of vertigo are simple. Most often, vertigo occurs when the connection is broken between the brain and inner ear, where the vestibular apparatus. The brain loses its orientation in space, which is why there is a feeling that the ground was slipping from under their feet. To stay in the vertical position, the gray matter triggers a cascade of reactions designed to return a sense of balance. Some of these reactions affects the vomiting center, because of what is often accompanied by dizziness, nausea attack. For example, it happens when rocking. However, this is a slightly different story.

Fortunately, like the loss of contact between the brain and the vestibular system occur infrequently and last just a few seconds. Doctors do not see

What Causes Dizziness? in such short-term incidents reason to panic.

Also, do not worry too much if dizzy longer, but due to a few common causes. These include:

• alcohol intoxication;
• the side effects of drugs taken (refer to the instructions!);
• dehydration;
• overheating and thermal shocks;
• traveling in a car, bus or by boat;
• anemia - low blood iron content;
• hypoglycemia - low blood sugar;
• a fall blood pressure;
• excessively intensive exercise;
• ear infections.

Of course, always unpleasant dizziness. But in these situations, they are one-time and short-term and are not life threatening. A concomitant symptoms allow to guess the cause of ailments.

Dizziness - not an independent disease, but a symptom, which may be accompanied by more than 80 diseases and physiological states.

They noted the phrase "in most cases"? Let's move on to the minority - those states that can carry a real threat to health and even life. And here dizziness - a key symptom.

When dizziness is dangerous

Neuroscientists are six states6 Signs A Sudden Dizzy Spell Could Be Something More SeriousIn which vertigo - a key and almost the only symptom, suggesting the development of a serious, but it is a hidden disease.

1. Dizzy often, and more than a few minutes

This may be indicative of serious violationsDizziness in the inner ear. For example, a vestibular neuritis (a viral infection of the vestibular nerve) or labyrinthitis (inner otitis).

Such diseases are dangerous in that they can initially proceed almost symptomless, and further their pathogens capable of infecting the brain and nervous system - including death.

2. Dizziness accompanied by severe weakness, numbness of the body, problems with speech and / or impaired

Note: this combination of symptoms may be a sign stroke! Stroke - a violation of cerebral circulation. according to statistics,stroke StatisticsIt is the second (after myocardial infarction) cause of mortality in Russia.

Be sure to check the person who is experiencing this kind of vertigo, with the help of one-minute testGot a Minute? You Could Diagnose Stroke:

• Instruct the patient to smile widely, showing teeth. If a person has a stroke, the smile is not symmetric: the corners of the lips zastynut at different levels.
• Ask close their eyes and raise their hands. Stroke (or rather caused them to malfunction of the nerve endings and muscle weakness) do not allow the victim to raise their hands at the same height.
• Have you repeat a simple sentence for a few words. For example: "With me everything is all right, and now it will be obvious." If you had a stroke, a person will be difficult to remember and reproduce the phrase. In addition, its pronunciation is indistinct, with a clear lisp to voiced consonants.

Similarly, you can check yourself.

If at least one task will be failed, immediately call an ambulance. Stroke is extremely dangerousstroke Statistics: Up to 84% of patients die or are disabled and only about 16% recover. You only have 3-6 hours, with the help of doctors to try to get among the lucky.

3. You always feel dizzy, you get up when

Short-term orthostatic hypotension (drop in blood pressure, including in the brain, causing dizziness) - quite a common condition and is not that dangerous.

Most often it is due to the fact that the body does not have enough fluid. On the basis of a light dehydration blood becomes thicker, deteriorating blood circulation, so make orthostatic hypotension when lifting his feet from a prone position or sitting easy. We solve this poser simple: do not forget drinking waterEspecially in the hot summer or during a serious exercise.

But if you are absolutely sure that you do not have dehydration and dizziness accompanies your every lifting, standing as quickly as possible to come back to the therapist. This indicates the possible symptoms of cardiovascular diseases (arrhythmia, heart failure), or the neuropathy - noninflammatory lesions nerves.

4. You have been bouts of unbearable headaches

With the word "migraine"Familiar to many, but most believe that we are talking exclusively about the throbbing headache. Meanwhile, it is not so: prolonged repetitive dizziness can also be migraine.

This is a neuropsychiatric disorder is potentially dangerousWhat is a migraine emergency? for life, because it can lead to stroke or heart attack.

If your vertigo lasting several hours or more, occur regularly, and in the past you throbbing head, you should consult with a physician to determine their possible causes and effects.

Warning: you may need hardware diagnostics - CT or MRI, which will give direction to again the same doctor.

5. Recently, you hit your head

Vertigo - one of the most striking symptoms concussion. It is important to as quickly as possible to address to the therapist to avoid serious injury and tissue edema.

6. During training you constantly dizzy

Most often in such conditions is guilty already mentioned above dehydration. Alternatively hyperventilation: because of the rapid breathing in blood oxygen level increases and decreases the content of carbon dioxide, which causes dizziness. It is therefore important to drink an adequate amount of liquid loads and are not too zealous with cardio.

If you absolutely know for sure that the drink its water intake, and the head starts spinning even when absolutely "pensioner" exercise, look to the doctor. In this case it is necessary to exclude the possibility of potentially dangerous cardiovascular disorders.