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Question: Fainting in shower often
| Joce_lyn8
- Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:03 am |
I am a 22 yr old female and I often faint in the shower. I get severly dizzy and eyes get heavy and my whole body feels heavy and sickly. I usually can feel it coming on and make to my bed before I go down but there have been cases when I have not. The first occurence happened when I was 18yrs old and it comes and goes. I don't have a family doctor or medical insurance so I have not been diagnosed. I am currently not on any medications and no one in my family seems to have this problem. Any advice?
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| Dr. Safaa Mahmoud
- Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:44 am |
 Hello,
This is more likely to be a vasovagal syncope or the common faint.
This occurs with emotional stress, pain, after a hot shower or in warm environment.
It is common in young females and usually associated with warning symptoms like Nausea, blurred vision or light-headedness.
Other causes related to CNS or Cardiac disorders as well as certain drugs should be excluded.
Treatment of the cause is the keyhole. General approaches like appropriate patient education, increase in salt intake, fluid intake, discontinuation of any possible precipitating drug, are usually helpful.
Direct clinical examination is essential
Keep us updated.
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