What causes dizziness and nausea in children?

Many parents may have experienced their children suffering from dizziness. Those who don’t understand the situation may think that the child is playing too much and not getting enough rest, but this is not the case. There are many factors that cause dizziness in children, and the situation of each child may be different. This needs to be judged based on the child’s age, diet and medical history. So what exactly causes children to feel dizzy and nauseous? Let’s take a look.

Dizziness and headaches are mostly caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain, which is common in abnormal blood pressure (hypotension, hypertension), hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and other diseases. Low blood pressure slows down blood flow, which reduces blood flow to organs (reduced cerebral blood flow), and reduced cerebral blood flow leads to insufficient blood supply to the brain. Symptoms of insufficient blood supply to the brain include: persistent dizziness (feeling of the house spinning), headache (pain in the forehead, sides of the head, and back of the head causes neck pain through nerve reflex, which is easily misdiagnosed as cervical spondylosis, and treatment for cervical spondylosis is ineffective), listlessness, frequent dreams and insomnia, memory loss, blurred vision (easily misdiagnosed as optic neuropathy), cold sweats (easily misdiagnosed as hypoglycemia), palpitations and chest tightness (easily misdiagnosed as heart disease), nausea and vomiting (easily misdiagnosed as stomach disease), and more serious symptoms include unsteady walking (even fainting, frequent fainting is easily misdiagnosed as epilepsy).

Dizziness in children is thought to be caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain. Not every patient with cerebral ischemia has all the above symptoms of cerebral ischemia. Blood pressure plus 2-3 symptoms of cerebral ischemia, plus the results of brain Doppler examination (reduced cerebral blood flow), can basically make a diagnosis of cerebral ischemia.

Through the introduction above, I believe everyone has an understanding of the reasons why children feel dizzy and nauseous. Most of the time, children's dizziness is caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain. The most common accompanying symptoms include low blood pressure, cold sweats, etc. However, every child has a different physique, and the specific symptoms may also be different, so a comprehensive examination is needed to find out.