The medical name for vertigo is vertigo. It is defined as a feeling of imaginary movement or rotation of one's own body, as well as surrounding objects. Causes of dizziness in women after 40 years are very numerous and require careful study, professional advice and diagnosis. After all, this common symptom can hide quite serious diseases.
Why do frequent dizziness cause women in their 40s?
The most likely factors that cause regular and strong vertigo at this age are quite dangerous:
- multiple sclerosis ;
- acute circulatory disturbance in the brain;
- neurinoma of the auditory nerve;
- transient ischemic attack;
- tumors of the brainstem;
- syringobulbia;
- vestibular neuronitis;
- mental illness;
- mechanical trauma of the head, its complications and consequences;
- the Arnold-Chiari anomaly;
- basilar or other form of migraine with aura;
- endocrine pathologies;
- hemorrhage into the cerebellum zone;
- Meniere's disease ;
- neoplasms of a different nature in the region of the posterior cranial fossa.
There are other, less serious reasons for the constant dizziness in mature women:
- weak vestibular apparatus (motion sickness);
- taking certain drugs with related side effects;
- benign positional vertigo;
- inflammation of the vesembular nerve;
- chronic fatigue.
Causes of mild dizziness in adult women
More often, representatives of the "weak" sex turn to the doctor with complaints about rare minor attacks of vertigo repeated with a certain frequency. They do not bring much discomfort, but they arise suddenly, and the most inappropriate moments.
Typically, such signs indicate violations in the work of the cardiovascular and autonomic system - a pathological increase or lowering of blood pressure. Both hypertension and hypotension are accompanied by a worsening of orientation in space, sometimes even a palpable nausea. But the vertigo is not
Causes of dizziness in women after 40 years of age at normal blood pressure:
- late pregnancy;
- emotional overload, staying in a state of stress;
- hypodynamia;
- violations in the diet, compliance with too strict diets, starvation;
- exacerbation of chronic diseases;
- acute infection (bronchitis, laryngitis, sinusitis).