Symptoms of vestibular disorder

Most people don't have a special understanding of vestibular nerve disorders. The human body mainly relies on proprioception, vision, and vestibular sensation to sense the body's position, movement, and external stimuli. This information is processed comprehensively to maintain the body in a more appropriate position in space. Therefore, the vestibule is an important peripheral sensory organ for maintaining human balance. If a disorder occurs, it will lead to a variety of symptoms. Let us learn about this aspect.

Symptoms of vestibular disorder

1. Motion illusion vertigo

Rotational vertigo, linear vertigo or displacement vertigo: In acute attacks, sudden vertigo is the main symptom, which is true vertigo. The patient feels that external objects are moving or he or she is moving, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Some patients experience chest tightness, sweating, yawning, increased heart rate, and high blood pressure.

2.Imbalance and imbalance

It manifests as posture and gait balance disorders. Patients may lean to one side or feel unstable when standing or walking, and may stagger or feel drunk when walking.

3. Dizziness and lightheadedness

Patients are often unable to clearly express their discomfort, such as dizziness, heaviness, numbness in the head, a feeling of emptiness, a tightness in the head, a heavy and oppressive feeling in the head, black spots in front of the eyes, etc.

It may also be accompanied by symptoms of the primary disease, such as deafness, tinnitus, etc.

Causes

Vestibular dysfunction refers to the imbalance of vestibular function, including vestibular dysfunction or loss and vestibular hyperactivity, etc.

Vestibular dysfunction can be common in the following diseases:

1. Vestibular peripheral vertigo

(1) Cochlear vestibular diseases include: ① Intralabyrinthine diseases such as sudden deafness and Meniere's disease; ② Extralabyrinthine and extralabyrinthine diseases such as aminoglycoside ototoxicity.

(2) Vestibular diseases include: ① intra-labyrinthine diseases, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and motion sickness; ② extra-labyrinthine diseases, such as vestibular neuronitis.

2. Vestibular vertigo

Includes: ① Vascular; ② Tumors, trauma, and degenerative diseases.

The causes include: viral infection, inner ear circulation disorder, autoimmune disease, trauma, tumor, ototoxic drugs, congenital factors, etc.

However, vestibular dysfunction is not necessarily an organic disease. It may even include excessive sensitivity of the vestibular organs and excessive stimulation of the vestibule of the inner ear, resulting in vertigo and dizziness. The most common one is motion sickness, which has certain genetic factors.

In addition, emotional tension, anxiety, lack of sleep or smelling bad odors can also be triggering factors.