From the Latin vertigo, vertigo is an alteration of the sense of balance characterized by a feeling of lack of stability. A person suffering from vertigo feels that objects are spinning around him or that he experiences a rotational movement of the body.
Vertigo may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and other physical manifestations. Height, acceleration, fainting and certain psychological disorders (such as agoraphobia) are some of the reasons that can cause vertigo. According to medical professionals, there are more than three hundred causes that can cause vertigo. However, among the most common are ear infections, severe head injuries, heart disease, brain tumors, and even blood pressure outside the established limits.
All this means that the patient with the aforementioned disease has to face a series of symptoms of a very diverse nature, such as dizziness, chest pain, seizures, fever or fainting. Central vertigo is known as a continuous sensation without autonomic symptoms or hearing disorders. Multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, migraine, and some tumors and viral infections can cause central vertigo, which can be treated with rest, physical therapy, and medication. Peripheral vertigo presents as a crisis of short duration and is usually accompanied by auditory manifestations and symptoms such as tachycardia and sweating. Sudden changes in position sometimes generate this vertigo. Various drugs and exercises are part of the usual treatment that a medical professional usually establishes for his patients who suffer from vertigo. However, it is true that in the most serious cases of this disease the solution is none other than surgical intervention. There are many recommendations that are made to those who suffer from this disorder with greater or lesser regularity and without becoming a serious situation. Specifically, they state that they should avoid sudden movements and postural changes. Also when you are experiencing a moment of vertigo, it is advisable to remain still, rest and avoid looking at any type of light, as this can make you feel more dizzy. For medicine, vertigo can also be a sudden disturbance of judgment. On the other hand, in everyday language, vertigo is a rush in the activity of a person or a community. For example: “The vertigo of life in the city makes us forget the most important values”, “In the vertigo of the competition, the player stopped talking to the press”. Finally, “Vertigo” is a famous film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that was released in 1958 and received two Oscar nominations.
James Stewart and Kim Novak are the stars of this production, halfway between thriller and drama, which revolves around the figure of a retired police officer who suffers from vertigo. He, without a job, will be in charge of taking care of a woman with whom he will fall in love.
