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Suggest Remedy For Persistent Vertigo
My dad is in his 70s, always healthy and active. All of a sudden he was is dizzy, constantly falling to his left, his left leg and arm are week and cant support him hardly, he is using a walker to move around but he still falls always left if he barely tips to that side. His doctor is trying antibiotics for possible inner ear infection and also gave him some vertigo meds too...He has been taking both since Monday and no help yet, he has fallen again and broke the skin on his nose now and he is depressed...what do you think it could be? Concerned about left side of his body feeling weak...
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Mon, 26 Oct 2015
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Hello
Ur father is 70 yr old with weakness on onside & giddiness .he was treated suspecting inner ear infection.always better to r/o brainstem infarct in elderly secondary to atherosclerosis/ small emboli.Go for MRI brain.most of the time we can come to diagnosis.rarely it may be due to BPPV.
Thank u
Ur father is 70 yr old with weakness on onside & giddiness .he was treated suspecting inner ear infection.always better to r/o brainstem infarct in elderly secondary to atherosclerosis/ small emboli.Go for MRI brain.most of the time we can come to diagnosis.rarely it may be due to BPPV.
Thank u
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