Suspected of this disease when dizziness intensifies in light, sound, and smell
May 09, 2025
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Even in adults, migraine patients are 2.5 times more frequent than the general population.
According to the International Headache Society, migraine dizziness is diagnosed when moderate or higher dizziness lasts 5 minutes to 72 hours, a history of migraines, and more than 50% of migraines occur when dizziness is expressed. In other words, migraine dizziness is half of the cases without headaches, and a large part of them have only dizziness, vomiting, and nausea without headaches.
Migraine dizziness is sudden or persistent and has a throbbing headache. When you get in a car, you get more severe symptoms of motion sickness, and you are sensitive to senses such as light, sound, and smell. nausea and vomiting appear, and dizziness can occur simultaneously with or without headaches. It occurs a lot with a feeling of dazed head, shaking or unstable.
It is also important to distinguish it from Meniere's disease, a common cause of dizziness. Meniere's disease can also have vomiting and nausea, and dizziness occurs repeatedly. In particular, because deafness and dizziness appear together, migraine dizziness is sometimes misunderstood as Meniere's disease.
Kwon Kyung-hyun, head of the neurology department at Ceran Hospital, said "A disease that can be confused with Meniere's disease is migraine dizziness, which is prone to recurrence. He explained that migraine dizziness can be more difficult to distinguish since about 40% of patients also complain of auditory symptoms" and "Middlehead dizziness and Meniere's disease occur similarly to vomiting and nausea"
Manager Kwon Kyung-hyun emphasized, "If there is a decrease in hearing, it is highly likely to be Meniere's disease, and if you are sensitive to migraine history, prognosis, light and sound, it is highly likely to be migraine dizziness." Meniere's disease is a disease that occurs in the inner ear and is characterized by three major symptoms of hearing loss, dizziness, and tinnitus."
In other words, patient A, who has a headache, a flash in front of his eyes, is sensitive to light, and sometimes dizzy, has migraine dizziness, and patient B, whose hearing decreases after dizziness, has Meniere's disease.
To differentiate migraine dizziness from Meniere's disease, a hearing test is conducted. In addition, an vestibular function test is performed to check equilibrium function through eye movement, and MRI is taken to exclude other central nervous system diseases. Checking the history of headaches and the presence of prognostic symptoms is key to the diagnosis of migraine dizziness.
Director Kwon Kyung-hyun said, `Although the exact cause of migraine dizziness is not known yet, genetic and environmental factors, diet and lifestyle are combined"It can be diagnosed only when there are no cerebrovascular disease or inflammatory diseases, so it is necessary to examine whether there are other diseases through examination, equilibrium function test, brain CT, and MRI."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
