Don’t take dizziness lightly
Feeling dizzy sometimes is a normal thing, it can also happen due to weakness or increase or decrease in BP, but if dizziness occurs often then it can be a disease of vertigo. Although people ignore it. Experts say that vertigo is a neurological disorder. Its risk increases with increasing age. It can also be dangerous in a person above 60 years of age.
Senior Neurotology Specialist Dr. Anirban Biswas show that Vertigo Is considered a balance disorder. Its patients often visit four to seven different specialists and undergo expensive MRI and CT scans, which have no direct relation to their real problem. Even after getting MRI done, the exact cause of dizziness problem is not known.
Dr. Anirban told that 27 percent of the patients who suffer from dizziness have problems with the inner ear (vestibular system), but most of the doctors keep treating it only as a problem, whereas the real reason can be due to brain related problems like migraine, loss of balance due to pressure on the nerves of the neck.
Memory can become weak due to not getting proper treatment.
Dr. Anirban Biswas says that if the problem of vertigo is not treated properly, it causes depression and memory weakness, due to which the quality of life of the patients is seriously affected. In such a situation, it is important not to take the problem of dizziness lightly and get it treated properly.
How to recognize whether it is a normal headache or vertigo?
In normal headache, pressure, heaviness or pain is felt in the head, but in vertigo it seems as if the head and the entire body are rotating. Headache is felt in the forehead, temple or back of the head, but in vertigo, the dizziness keeps increasing and the balance of the body starts getting disturbed due to walking. In vertigo, dizziness is accompanied by nausea, vomiting or sweating and pain is also felt in the ears.