Vestibular disorders should not sit continuously for too long

Should exercise, leave the lights on sleep, not sit continuously for too long, to avoid contact with the food quality or taste stimuli; to the doctor as soon as disoriented space and time.

Vestibular disorders among office attack / Remedy vestibular disorders

Dr. Dong Ngoc Khanh, Director of Medical Hospital Saigon Fortis Hoan My, vestibular is located behind the cochlea, which plays an important role in maintaining balance, coordinate eye movements, head and body themselves. The ability to balance the body depends on the feeling comes from three main areas are the eyes, ears and the muscles, joints. Parts and vestibular labyrinth of the inner ear responsible for the brain provides the sense of posture, position and the rotation of the body as well as the presence of things around.

The motion as his spin, tilt to right to left, front to back, up or down these parts are recorded. The brain receives, analyzes, and coordinate all these signals to maintain body. When the brain does not use these signals, or signals are not clear, contradictory, then we will lose balance.

Sea sickness seasickness, dizziness while seated car is due to the same principles. Sitting in the plane encountered a storm, plane stall, I do not see the changes on the outside but receptive ears fluctuations, we see dizziness, light-headedness.

 Vestibular disorders more likely in people who work in an office, sitting in air-conditioned rooms and more frequent contact with computers. As much sitting in air-conditioned rooms, areas susceptible to cervical spine cold, long days cause spinal artery spasm, leading to peripheral vestibular disorders. It is also easy to cause disease recurrence if thoroughly unnoticed.

Note when sick

People with vestibular disorders need regular exercise, night, morning to night light for easy observation of the environment. The patient does not sit continuously for too long, especially as the computer, limit alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, avoid contact with the food quality or taste stimuli.

Patients also should not stretch your neck stand up or sit down too quickly, avoid driving or operating machinery with powerful engines if often shocked. Patients also need to reduce stress, anxiety, panic, avoid reading newspaper while sitting car, should sit or lie down immediately if you feel dizzy. In particular, a person absolutely can not climb higher and must cooperate with the physician so that treatment is possible.

When to visit

Dizziness is rarely a symptom of a serious disease, but if it appears one of the following symptoms such as sudden headache, fever of 38 degrees Celsius or higher, blurred vision, no clear view of things, diplopia , vision loss, hearing loss, should consult immediately ....

Patients also need to see a doctor when disoriented space and time. Talking tough, limbs trembling, feeling groggy, want falling, numbness of the toes, fingers, chest pain or fast or slow heart rate abnormalities, as well as the symptoms.

Patients need to take care, because in addition to vestibular disorders, symptoms and signs of this can signal a serious illness such as cerebral stroke, brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, heart disease, multiple sclerosis .