
Scrupulously managing vertigo
Author(s) -
Sunil Chaudhry
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical and biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-1924
DOI - 10.18231/j.jpbs.2021.001
Subject(s) - vertigo , medicine , vestibular system , migraine , surgery , anesthesia , audiology
Vertigo is a sense of spinning dizziness. There is no ideal medicine for treatment of vertigo and dizziness. The duration of dizziness/vertigo: attacks may last for seconds or minutes (as in vestibular paroxysm) or hours (as in Menière’s disease or vestibular migraine). Diagnosis and treatment of vertigo remains a challenge for many physicians. Many drugs produce dizziness and vertigo side effects such as some antibiotics , diuretics, mucolytics and NSAIDs. Symptoms of Vertigo are usually managed with vestibular suppressants. Steroids are useful in selected patients. Neurosurgical treatment is chosen in lesions such as hematomas, tumors, vascular lesions, pathology of the cervical spine (cervicalspondylopathy)