Severe dizziness and call "help"?
"Grandma's disease" eyes young people
Guangzhou Daily (all-media reporter Zhang Qingmei, correspondent Zheng Lin) Recently, artist Wang Junkai has been on hot search due to sudden dizziness by doctors suspected of benign positional dizziness.
According to experts, benign positional vertigo, also known as "otolithia", has an episode of "turning around", and its peak age of onset is 40 to 60 years old. However, with the change of living habits, this disease has gradually "focused on" young people. people.
Severe dizziness calling "help"
The 74-year-old Zhang Apo (surnamed Hua) is from Zhaoqing.
According to Zhang Apo's memory, since she was 16 years old, she has been punting in the rivers and lakes of Sihui area.
"As far as I can reach Humen, Dongguan and Shenzhen, I have seen a lot of wind and waves, but I never get seasick." Until the age of 45, Zhang Apo went ashore and switched to odd jobs.
Since then, Zhang Apo has worked as a construction worker and porter, and has always been very healthy.
Last year, Zhang Apo found that she was always dizzy inexplicably, and she was getting more and more dizzy, especially when she got up.
"If you accidentally turn around, shake it around." At first, Zhang Apo thought that she was suffering from cervical spondylosis. However, after successive examinations of her cervical spine, heart and whole body, she found no abnormalities.
After symptomatic treatment at the local hospital, Zhang Apo's dizziness did not improve.
"It was so dizzy that life was worse than death. When I was hospitalized in a local hospital, I felt dizzy and I cried and called the doctor to help me."
In order to seek further treatment, Zhang Apo, accompanied by her family, came to Guangdong Sanjiu Brain Hospital.
Young people are also a high-risk group
Hu Yunxin, director of the Sixth Department of Neurology at the hospital, carefully understood the patient's medical history, combined with related examinations, considered that it is more likely to be benign paroxysmal positional vertigo combined with Meniere's disease.
"The pathogenesis is unknown, but it is related to factors such as aging, trauma, and infection. Among them, Meniere's disease is also one of the important causes of otoliths."
According to Hu Yunxin, when vertigo attacks, the patient will have strong rotational vertigo, the vision will rotate or even feel the rotation, and severe cases may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
After the otolith reduction and swivel chair treatment, Zhang Apo's symptoms gradually improved and she will be discharged from the hospital in the near future.
With the aid of the otolith reduction swivel chair, the inaccuracy of manual reduction can be reduced, and the efficiency of reduction can be improved.
Hu Yunxin introduced that at present, some neurology and otologists can reposition otoliths with bare hands, but due to the different experience and habits of each doctor, the speed and angle of reposition are different, so the effect is quite different.
"Most patients can recover with only one treatment, and a few people may need more than two repositioning treatments."
Hu Yunxin emphasized that in recent years, as people's lifestyle changes, young people have also become one of the high-risk groups. "Stay up for a long time, lower your head to play with mobile phones and work, etc., may also induce otolith attacks."