Vertigo Sometimes Could Be Early Signs Stroke

Vertigo is not a disease but a symptom of various neurological disorders, internal medicine or ENT (ear nose throat). Vertigo can sometimes also be one of the early signs of a stroke.

Vertigo or loss of balance will greatly interfere with daily activities, although not cause pain in other body organs. When a relapse, patients with vertigo would have trouble standing up and moving because it felt incredible headache to the world seems spinning, even often accompanied by nausea and vomiting.



80 percent of vertigo caused by interference with the peripheral part of the inner ear (ENT) and 20 percent of the disturbances in the central part of the brain and nervous system.

Vertigo can be caused due to neurological disorders, internal medicine and otolaryngology (ear, nose, throat). Some of the factors that cause vertigo include migraine attack, inflammation of the neck, motion sickness, bacterial infection of hearing and the lack of oxygen to the brain.

Abnormalities of the ear is also a frequent cause, including the abnormalities of vision or change in blood pressure that occurs suddenly, interference in the nerve connecting the ear to the brain as well as within his own brain.

"Vertigo can be a symptom of the central, in the cerebellum or the blood vessels in the brain. Stroke can also cause symptoms of a stroke, even 10 percent of stroke patients experiencing early symptoms of dizziness vertigo," said dr. M. Kurniawan, Sp.S, neurology faculty at the Faculty of medicine RSCM, the sidelines of a seminar Vertigo "Re-Balance Your Life" in RS Asri, Jakarta, Wednesday (26/10/2011).

According to Dr. Kurniawan, there are basically three stages to the diagnosis of stroke, namely:

Patients were asked to smile
Patients were asked to raise their hands
Patients were asked to talk


"If the patient's mouth oblique-oblique, could not raise their hands or slurred speech then it is a stroke. But in some people symptoms of dizziness vertigo can also occur. So if somebody strokes thought vertigo was probably not wrong diagnosis but the diagnosis is not yet complete," Kurniawan continued dr.

Dr. Kurniawan also explained that the vertigo sufferers aged over 50 years, cause disturbances that often arises is whether the brain blood vessels of stroke or transient ischemic attack