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A Simple Guide to Dizziness and Related Diseases
A Simple Guide to Dizziness and Related Diseases
A Simple Guide to Dizziness and Related Diseases
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A Simple Guide to Dizziness and Related Diseases

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Dizziness has been used to describe different sensations.

True dizziness is a light-headedness, unsteadiness or simply feeling faint.

The symptom of "dizziness" needs to be separated from vertigo, which is a feeling that the room is moving or spinning, or that the person is moving when they are not (or even a floating sensation).

Balance difficulty is also a separate topic where a person feels they are about to fall, has difficulty staying balanced, or may actually fall.

What are the Causes of Dizziness?

There are many causes of dizziness:

1. insufficient blood flow to the brain

2. Lack of sleep

3. Low blood sugar

4. Lower or very high blood pressure

5. Anemia

6. Fever

7. Stress & Anxiety

8. Cochlea imbalance(Motion Sickness)

9. Cold or Influenza

10. heart disease

11. Medicines

12. Brain condition such as Parkinson, brain tumors

Most dizzy spells are minor and go away after a while.

However, dizziness can also point to more serious disorders.

These include:

1. Vertigo
This is a spinning sensation or feeling that your surrounding is moving around you.

It is often accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

Nystagmus, a jerky movement in the eye, is a common sign.

Vertigo often indicates an inner ear problem.

Viruses, such as those causing the common "cold" or "flu," can also attack the inner ear and its nerve connections to the brain, resulting in severe vertigo.

In a more serious case, a bacterial infection such as mastoiditis can make a person lose his hearing and sense of balance.

Insufficient blood flow to the inner ear can also lead to vertigo.

This is often caused by poor circulation due to the hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis) which is commonly seen in patients with diabetes, high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol.

2. Light-headedness

The most typical form of light-headedness occurs when you stand up too fast for the blood to reach your brain.

This form of light-headedness is often transient and harmless.

More persistent forms of light-headedness can be caused by:

a. Loss of body fluids, for instance, loss of water in excessive sweating

Changes to your blood pressure caused by medicines such as anti-hypertensive, diuretics and anti-depressants.

b. Medical conditions such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

c. Anemia

3. Motion sickness or sea-sickness

People with this condition may experience nausea and even vomiting when traveling in cars, airplanes, boats, or ships.

Though it may incapacitate some people, more often than not, the symptoms are temporary.

Motion sickness occurs when the central nervous system receives conflicting messages from four different systems of the body.

They are the inner ears, the eyes, pressure receptors in our skin and sensory receptors in the muscles and joints.

It is the complex interaction of these four systems that gives us our sense of balance and equilibrium.

For instance, the inner ears, specifically the three semicircular canals in each ear, detect motion in three dimensions, that is, forward-backward, up-down, and left-right.

The central nervous system (that is, the brain and spinal cord) receives all the information from the four systems to make some sense of the body's position in relation to the environment.

Thus, if you are sitting in the back seat of a moving car, your inner ears and skin receptors will detect the motion of your travel.

And if your eyes see the same motion, you will not become "car sick".

But if you are reading in the car, your eyes see only the pages of your book, so your brain receives conflicting messages and you become "car sick."

TABLE OF CONTENT

Chapter 1 Dizziness

Chapter 2 Motion Sickness

Chapter 3 Syncope (Fainting)

Chapter 4 Laby

LanguageEnglish
PublisherKenneth Kee
Release dateDec 12, 2012
ISBN9781301929269
A Simple Guide to Dizziness and Related Diseases
Author

Kenneth Kee

Medical doctor since 1972.Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours inthe afternoon.He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.comThis autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.The later books go into more details of medical disorders.He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) startingwith the Apple computer and going to PC.The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.Dr Kee is the author of:"A Family Doctor's Tale""Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine""Case Notes From A Family Doctor"

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    A Simple Guide to Dizziness and Related Diseases - Kenneth Kee

    A

    Simple

    Guide

    to

    Dizziness

    And

    Related Diseases

    by

    Dr Kenneth Kee

    M.B.,B.S. (Singapore)

    Ph.D (Healthcare Administration)

    Copyright Kenneth Kee 2012 Smashwords Edition

    Published By Kenneth Kee at Smashwords.com

    Dedication

    This book is dedicated

    to my wife Dorothy

    and my children

    Carolyn, Grace

    and Kelvin

    This book describes the Dizziness and Related Diseases such as Motion Sickness, Syncope, Labrynthitis, Benign Positional Vertigo and Meniere;s Disease which are seen in some of my patients in my Family Clinic.

    This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader.

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    Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Chapter 1

    Dizziness

    What is Dizziness?

    Dizziness has been used to describe different sensations.

    True dizziness is a light-headedness, unsteadiness or simply feeling faint.

    The symptom of dizziness needs to be separated from vertigo, which is a feeling that the room is moving or spinning, or that the person is moving when they are not (or even a floating sensation).

    Balance difficulty is also a separate topic where a person feels they are about to fall, has difficulty staying balanced, or may actually fall.

    What are the Causes of Dizziness?

    There are many causes of dizziness:

    1. insufficient blood flow to the brain

    2. Lack of sleep

    3. Low blood sugar

    4. Lower or very high blood pressure

    5. Anemia

    6. Fever

    7. Stress & Anxiety

    8. Cochlea imbalance(Motion Sickness)

    9. Cold or Influenza

    10. heart disease

    11. Medicines

    12.

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