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Dizziness is a generic, nonspecific term used to describe many related symptoms such as feeling faint, lightheadedness, nausea, weakness or loss of balance. If it feels like you or your surroundings are spinning, more precisely, it's dizziness. While common and not pleasant, dizziness is not serious and life-threatening. There are many ways to treat dizziness at home. However, you should watch out for "red light" signals indicating the need for medical intervention.

Steps

Part 1 of 2: Treating Dizziness at Home

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   Reduce anxiety or stress. High stress can alter breathing and hormone levels, leading to dizziness or lightheadedness and nausea. Certain anxiety disorders, such as panic attacks or phobias, can also cause dizziness. If these are the cases, reduce life stress and anxiety as much as possible by expressing your emotions and working to resolve conflicts in your relationships. Less psychological burden may help you manage the condition.
   • Sometimes measures like changing jobs, reducing work hours, changing schedules or working from home more can help reduce stress and anxiety.
   • Natural stress treatments that can be done at home include meditation, yoga, tai chi, and deep breathing. Watching video tutorials online before you get started can be helpful to you.

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   Drink a lot of water. Acute or chronic (long-term) dehydration is also a common cause of dizziness, especially a feeling of lightheadedness. When the body is dehydrated - due to vomiting or diarrhea, fever or not drinking enough water on a hot day - the blood becomes thicker and the brain does not get the necessary oxygen, leading to dizziness. Furthermore, dehydration leads to overheating (hyperthermia), another common cause of this condition. If this is the case, drink more water, especially on hot and humid days, to improve dizziness.
   • Aim for 8 large glasses of water a day (2 liters total) for intense activity or outdoors on a hot day.
   • Avoid alcoholic and caffeinated beverages such as coffee, black tea, carbonated sodas, and energy drinks. Alcohol and caffeine are diuretic and will therefore cause you to excrete more than usual.

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   Eat foods that are easy to digest. Low blood sugar is another common cause of lightheadedness, lightheadedness, headache, and lethargy. Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) is a common problem in diabetics, those who take too much insulin, or in people who skip breakfast and are too busy to eat the rest of the day. The brain needs a certain amount of glucose in the blood to function.In this case, consider changing your insulin intake (with doctor's permission) if you have diabetes or eating foods that your stomach / intestines are able to rapidly digest and monitor. With hypoglycemia, dizziness is often accompanied by sweating and lack of alertness.
   • Fresh fruit with a sweet taste (especially ripe blueberries and bananas), fruit juice (especially grape or sweet apple juice), white bread, cream, and honey are all good foods to help make. increase blood sugar quickly.
   • Conversely, persistent excesses blood sugar (hyperglycemia) can also cause dizziness through dehydration and excess acidity. Chronic hyperglycemia often occurs in undiagnosed / untreated diabetics.

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   Get up slowly. It can be said that orthostatic hypotension is the most common cause of short-term dizziness attacks, especially in the elderly. This condition occurs when people with relatively low blood pressure (especially systolic blood pressure) get up too quickly from a fixed position or while sitting. When standing fast, the artery does not have enough pressure to pump blood to the brain in time, and so the brain lacks the necessary amount of oxygen for a few seconds, resulting in temporary dizziness or a feeling of fainting. If that seems to be the case for you, get up slowly and remember to hold onto some stationary for balance.
   • If you are lying down, switch to a sitting position for a while before getting up.
   • Chronic low blood pressure can result from taking too much blood pressure medications, muscle relaxants or vasodilators, such as Viagra and similar medications used for erectile dysfunction.
   • Peripheral nerve problems, dehydration and many other medications can also cause a drop in blood pressure.

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   Sleep more. Insufficient sleep, both qualitatively and quantitatively, is another potential cause of dizziness, brain fog and an overall imbalance. Chronic insomnia is associated with high-intensity stress, high blood pressure, depression, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. All of them can cause varying degrees of dizziness. Disrupted sleep can be linked to chronic anxiety, psychological / emotional trauma, chronic pain, caffeine use, drug abuse, restless leg syndrome, and more. sleep apnea (heavy snoring). In this case, turn off your TV, computer and go to bed earlier, and avoid caffeinated beverages (coffee, black tea, effervescent soda) at least 8 hours before bedtime.
   • Sleeping late on the weekend is fine and may help you to rest and / or be less dizzy, but you won't be able to make up for the lack of sleep during the week.
   • Natural sleep aids that can be taken immediately before bed include chamomile tea, valerian root extract, magnesium (which helps relax muscles) and melatonin (the hormone that regulates sleep and circadian rhythm).

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   Avoid head injury. Head injuries from car crashes and competitive sports are common causes of mild to moderate brain damage, commonly known as a crash or a concussion. Key symptoms of concussion include dizziness accompanied by dull headache, nausea, foggy brain and ringing in the ears. Head injuries tend to accumulate, meaning the condition gets worse with each injury and accumulates over time. Therefore, try to reduce the risk or an accident that will lead to the "bell ringing".
   • Sports like boxing, soccer, rugby and ice hockey have an especially high risk of a head injury.
   • Always wear seat belts while driving (preventing serious neck injuries) and avoid activities that cause head and neck heavy movements such as spring-jumping, bungee jumping or roller coaster rides.
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Part 2 of 2: Finding Medical Intervention

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   Ask your doctor about side effects and drug interactions. In fact, most drugs (both prescription and over-the-counter) list the symptoms of dizziness in their list of side effects. However, this symptom is especially common in certain drugs. Specifically, blood pressure medications, diuretics, sedatives, antidepressants, strong pain relievers and some antibiotics will almost cause dizziness. However, ask your doctor if any of you are taking any medication or combination of drugs that could be the culprit of the dizziness.
   • Never stop taking a "detox" drug without a doctor's supervision, even if you believe it is the cause of your dizziness. Gradually stop and / or switch to another drug with a similar effect.
   • Due to the complexity of chemical interactions in the body, it is, in fact, impossible to predict the interactions of three or more pharmaceuticals.

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   Talk to your doctor about the symptoms of a cold or flu. The main cause of colds and flu is respiratory viruses. As a result, most symptoms involve the lungs, throat, sinuses, and inner ear. In this case, a buildup of mucus and other fluids can clog the airways and / or inner ear, leading to dizziness and loss of balance. If this is true for you, just wait a few days for the illness to go away, stay hydrated, and clear your sinuses by gently blowing out a towel or rinsing with warm salt water.
   • Nasal blocking and strong breathing are a way of clearing the narrow eardrum that connects the throat to the middle ear. The eardrum maintains pressure balance on either side of the eardrum and dizziness or poor balance is often the result of this organ blockage.
   • Other conditions that often lead to dizziness include allergies, migraines, and anemia (low red blood cell count).

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   Check your blood pressure. As mentioned, both low blood pressure (hypotension) and high blood pressure (high blood pressure) can cause dizziness. Therefore, let your doctor check your stats. In general, your blood pressure should be below 120 (systolic) and above 80 (diastolic). In the two cases above, high blood pressure is more dangerous and sometimes a symptom of heart disease. In fact, the most dangerous heart problems such as cardiomyopathy (infected heart muscle), congestive heart failure, and arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) are responsible for high blood pressure and increase. there is a significant risk of chronic dizziness and lightheadedness.
   • If you have a heart attack or mild stroke, less blood is going to the brain and it causes dizziness and other symptoms. Your doctor will likely perform an electrocardiogram (ECG) to rule out the possibility of a heart attack.
   • Unfortunately, antihypertensive drugs are a common cause of dizziness.

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   Blood sugar test. As mentioned, both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia can lead to dizziness. If you have diabetes and hypoglycemia, your doctor may reduce your insulin intake. Hyperglycemia can be a sign of diabetes. Your doctor may give you a blood sugar test, which is a test that measures the amount of glucose - the main energy source of the brain and most other cells in the body. Usual levels are between 70-100 mg / dL.
   • You can buy a blood glucose monitor, a device that requires blood to be extracted from your finger for a sample, at a pharmacy. Normally, if you do not fast, the reading should be below 125 mg / dL.
   • Eating a lot of refined sugar can also lead to temporary hyperglycemia (known as the sugar rush) and dizziness.

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   Ear exam. If your condition makes your daily life significantly difficult and causes things to turn around, you may be dizzy. These can be benign postural dizziness (a sense of rotation that occurs when moving your head), dizziness from labyrinthitis (inner ear infection) or Meniere's disease (inner ear that stores water). Here, dizziness is the result of a change in balance in the inner ear (vestibular system) or in its connection to the brain. In short, when standing still, the vestibular system still assumes you are moving and creates a feeling of rotation. In this case, however, the dizziness usually goes away on its own thanks to the body's ability to correct whatever is behind them.
   • Benign postural dizziness is often caused by a moving inner ear stone and irritation of the semi-annular tube.
   • Sometimes the dizziness can be so severe that it causes nausea, vomiting, headache, and loss of balance for several hours at a time.

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   See a chiropractor or chiropractor. They are spinal specialists and establish the normal function and movement of the small spinal joint (the small joint) connecting the vertebrae. A fairly common cause of dizziness and dizziness is a trapped / deviated / decreased upper cervical joint function, typically the site junction to the skull. A manual joint manipulation, also known as correction, can be used to remove or reposition a slightly deflected small joint. Usually, you can hear a "pop" sound when adjusting your spine.
   • Although sometimes the dizziness or dizziness can go away completely with just one correction (if they are related to the problem of the upper neck), usually it takes 3-5 adjustments the results are clear.
   • Arthritis in the upper neck, especially rheumatoid arthritis, can lead to chronic episodes of dizziness.
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Advice

• Older adults are more likely to develop medical conditions that lead to dizziness, and also often take medication that causes dizziness.
• Avoid driving or operating heavy machinery in the event of frequent dizziness or lightheadedness.
• If you experience dizziness, avoid caffeine, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco. They can make your condition worse.
• If you feel nauseous because you are dizzy, prepare a bucket or similar object nearby just in case you need to vomit.
• Practice yoga, especially low head positions on the floor. Blood is transferred to the brain to relieve a feeling of dizziness if poor circulation or low blood pressure is the cause.
• If you feel a little dizzy, try to stay away and not look at the screen.

Warning

• If you experience severe dizziness (leading to severe visual impairment, vomiting or fainting), seek medical attention immediately.
• Talk to your doctor if the dizziness is more severe than usual, as this could indicate a serious cardiovascular problem.