Ms. Jiang, a 45-year-old career elite, finally received the opportunity for promotion and salary increase. No, she was so proud that she took a long vacation and was ready to relax.
The first thing is to catch up on the movies that I haven’t watched during the Spring Festival. On the first day, Ms. Jiang watched two movies in a row. Jia Ling in "It's Hot" was so much like herself. After feeling the same, she shed tears.
The next day, Ms. Jiang suddenly felt dizzy and her vision was spinning when she got up. It lasted for about 5 minutes before she slowly got better. Although she felt strange in her body, she went to the theater happily and bought another My favorite snack, coffee and cheesecake, while watching a movie.
However, as the movie played, Ms. Jiang's dizziness symptoms began to reappear, her vision became more and more spinning, she also experienced nausea and vomiting, and she was even particularly afraid of seeing the light of the big screen and the sounds coming from around the theater. She did not dare to move until she called her family. Accompanied by her family, she went to a nearby hospital for diagnosis and treatment. After a physical examination, brain diseases were ruled out and she was given treatment to stop dizziness and vomiting.
But two days later, Ms. Jiang is still dizzy. She is so dizzy that she dare not get out of bed and feels like vomiting whenever she moves. She couldn't look at the light outside the window. She could only lie on the bed in broad daylight, and the curtains had to be drawn tightly so that no light could be seen at all. Even more strangely, I started experiencing throbbing pain on the right side of my head. This inexplicable headache made her feel worse than death.
Ms. Jiang was so anxious that she searched a lot of information on the Internet and determined that she was suffering from otolithiasis. She saw that Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital had a professional "magic chair" to diagnose and treat dizziness and otolithiasis, so she found the otolaryngology department. Director Xiong Gaoyun.
Director Xiong Gaoyun combined with Ms. Jiang’s condition. The dizziness lasted for more than 5 minutes and there was obvious nystagmus. However, there were no obvious abnormalities in the hearing test, vestibular function and head MRI examination results. He told her that this was not otolithiasis, but Vestibular migraine.
What is vestibular migraine?
Xiong Gaoyun introduced that vestibular migraine is a disease with a genetic tendency and is characterized by repeated attacks of dizziness or vertigo, which may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and headaches. The acute onset time ranges from 5 minutes to 72 hours. The disease is more common in women, with a male-to-female ratio of more than 1:2.
During a vestibular migraine attack, patients will experience spontaneous vertigo, such as illusion of self-motion, illusion of visual object rotation or floating, and vertigo induced by position changes. In addition, it will also be accompanied by photophobia, nausea and vomiting, and headache (the headache of vestibular migraine is often one-sided and accompanied by a pulsating sensation). Some patients will experience ear symptoms, including tinnitus, hearing loss, ear pain, and tinnitus. Feeling of distension, etc. Those who suffer from repeated attacks are unable to concentrate, and are prone to symptoms such as sleep disorders, anxiety and depression, which affect daily life.
According to the characteristics of Ms. Jiang’s condition, Director Xiong Gaoyun customized a treatment plan for her: first, a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine to relieve dizziness and analgesic treatment; second, use a vertigo diagnosis and treatment device (magic chair) to conduct vestibular rehabilitation training once every other day; third, advise Ms. Jiang, pay attention to the taboo items in your daily diet, especially coffee and cheese cakes that you are particularly fond of.
Through systematic treatment, Ms. Jiang’s symptoms disappeared after a week.
Director Xiong told her that she could do more vestibular function rehabilitation and expansion exercises on weekdays, which would be more conducive to disease recovery and prevention.
Director Xiong reminds everyone: For patients with vestibular migraine who tend to have recurring attacks, they must pay attention to look for the predisposing factors of the disease and make daily records when necessary. This has a positive effect on preventing the occurrence of vestibular migraine.
Chao News Client Reporter Liu Qian Correspondent Ying Xiaoyan Zhang Yuzhen
(Source: Chao News Client)
