You often faint or lose your balance? Perhaps, you got vertigo. Although not lethal, vertigo can be a symptom of serious diseases such as high blood pressure, tumors, and stroke. In fact, it could trigger a fatal accident when the attack came suddenly.
Vertigo occurs when a person feels himself or the surrounding environment is moving or spinning. In fact, often accompanied by severe nausea and vomiting. Dr M Kurniawan, SPS, Asri Hospital neurologist, says that the vertigo commonly afflict the elderly. "The
incidence of vertigo will continue to increase in the elderly. Noted,
the incidence of vertigo at the age of 40 years was 40 percent," he said
during the inauguration of the Hospital Clinic of Integrated Vertigo
Asri.
In
old age, vertigo often occurs due to disturbances in the blood vessels
to the brain, ear abnormalities in internal organs, and neurological
disorders. Although common in the elderly, does not mean that young people may not experience it. "Typically, vertigo occurs in younger people because of trauma or had been hit," he added.
Vertigo is also likely to strike women than men. "According to the 1956 study, the incidence rate in women 48 percent, while in men 37 percent," said Dr Jenny Bashiruddin, PhD, and Asri ENT specialist RS Sub Division Head of ENT Department of Neurology Medical Faculty UI. There are two types of vertigo, the vertigo that comes from the peripheral or inner ear or brain and central parts. However, the majority occur in the peripheral, the vertigo debris.
Vertigo
debris arising from rock crystal deposits (debris) which are formed of
calcium carbonate in one of the canals in balance tool (utricle). Naturally, the debris formed from the gelatinous substances in the equipment balance. However,
because the specific gravity exceeds the fluid in the utricle
(endolymph), debris can migrate and settle on one of the canals around
the equipment balance.
Then, what happens vertigo? Balance human instrument is dynamic so it is easily aroused by the movement of the head. If we rotate the head, the fluid endolymph stimulates the tool will also move the balance to adapt. "If
there is sediment and debris, the endolymph fluid will experience a
greater thrust and balance tool with the power to stimulate greater
stimulation. So that people who experience vertigo would feel like a
spin," said Dr. Entjep Hadjar, Sp ENT-TOS.
Solutions Without Surgery
First, a solution to deal with it is the operating expenditure debris. But apparently, many complications occur because the utricle is the hardest bone in the human body.In
the process, discovered a way more practical non-surgical patients by
chance a French nationals who want to go to the doctor in the UK.
The patient experienced vertigo incredible so he decided to go to England for treatment by using the ferry even though he could not seat. He was forced to sit down with his head on the ship's engine.Arriving at the port of London, all of a sudden vertigo which he felt had been lost. Intrigued, he told the doctor. Of the story, doctors analyze and draw conclusions that the ship's engine vibrations received by the patient is able to solve the tool keseimbangnya debris.
From this background, the doctor develops a treatment method called Hallpike Manouver consisting of two ways to destroy and remove debris precipitated by usingvibrator, then the patient will be asked to perform certain head positions to bring back into the utricle of broken stone, called repositioning Canalith Therapy (CRT).
"This
method is able to cure 87 percent of patients in the two meetings.
Thereafter, patients are encouraged to exercise balance, and sleep with
high pillows. If sportsis done routinely, vertigo will not recur, "he said. Because
the debris vertigo is only one kind of vertigo, the doctor's diagnosis
is necessary to know the type of vertigo that occurs. Not
only that, the doctor's diagnosis is also important to find out more
about the disease is going to remember only a symptom of vertigo.
No wonder if, in the treatment of vertigo should be integrated through ENT, neurological, and internal medicine. Not just in one area of treatment. Unfortunately,
not all hospitals provide integrated services so that patients are
often confused with a disease that never healed.
Therefore,
if you have symptoms of vertigo, be a smart patient by asking for an
integrated examination of the overall service that can be more easily
overcome the disease, treatment costs would not beswell.
(lmh/ed.bj)
