Does anyone have information on the vagus nerve? A friend of mine was telling me that my BF should have his checked and I'm not sure what it is or does or how it would affect you. I have quickly did a google search and will continue looking elsewhere, but I was hoping someone on here would have some better information for me!
My mother recently passed out (at the mall) for no known reason. The ER and later her GP attributed it to a vagal nerve attack. It is the nerve that runs from your colon to your brain. Remember when President Bush II fainted while eating a pretzel? That was a vagal nerve attack. It slows your heart rate, drops your blood pressure, makes you cold and clammy, and causes you to feel faint or to actually faint. If you faint at the site of blood, from pain or anxiety (like when you are stuck with needle for an IV or shot) that's caused by your vagus nerve.
I dusted off my A&P book for this one. The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve responsible for sensory in the cardiac, respiratory & BP reflexes. Sensory & motor to larynx (speaking), decrease the heart rate, contraction of alimentary tube (peristalsis or movement of bowels), increases digestive secretions.
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Thanks ladies! That helps me out! I have a feeling some of what he is experiencing is from that. He is always saying he feels cold and clammy, dizzy, like he is going to faint. That is the main symptoms of his "spells". I will have to have him talk to his doctor about this.
Yeah I'm in grad school for Speech Pathology, and one of the major nerves involved with swallowing and speaking is the Vagus nerve, or cranial nerve #10. My Audiology professor told us that he has to be very careful when he places hearing aids in his patient's ears because if he stimulates the Vagus nerve in that region, it can cause someone to go into cardiac arrest since the Vagis nerve also innervates portions of the heart.
Vagus Nerve 
The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve responsible for sensory in the cardiac, respiratory & BP reflexes. Sensory & motor to larynx (speaking), decrease the heart rate, contraction of alimentary tube (peristalsis or movement of bowels), increases digestive secretions.
