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Cure Your Vertigo Right
Away - Five reasons why you feel dizzy and lightheaded
Everyone
feels a bit dizzy or lightheaded every once in a while, but it’s usually something
that passes quickly.
Maybe
it’s just that you didn’t eat enough, drink enough or it’s too hot, so a little
food, drink, and a moment in the shade and you’re back to normal in no time.
But
sometimes that lightheaded
feeling points to underlying problems that are far more unsettling.
Forewarned
is forearmed as they say, and it pays to understand these five more dangerous
causes of lightheadedness and dizziness.
Your
experience of lightheadedness and dizziness can be anything from mild to severe. When you’re
lightheaded it feels as if you might faint, and when you’re dizzy
the room seems to spin.
Common
causes include:
1. Dehydration: dehydration can lower your blood pressure,
raise your body temperature and increase your breathing rate. The net result of
this is that the blood vessels in your brain dilate, and there’s not enough
blood to fill them up.
You
might get feel lightheaded after intense exercise, because more of your blood
gets sent to the muscles you’ve just worked and less of it goes to your brain.
A lie down and a drink of water should help to get you back to normal quickly.
2. Low blood pressure: there are a whole host of things that can
cause low blood pressure, and you’ll need to know which one applies to you
before you can get rid of your dizziness.
Resting
in bed for too long, pregnancy, dehydration, alcohol, diuretics, blood pressure medication, antipsychotic drugs, low heart rate, an
underactive thyroid, and low blood sugar (among others) are all potential
causes, so it’s best to talk to your doctor to get to the root of the problem.
3. Prescription Drugs: The US Food and Drug Administration is
responsible for approving drugs. As a general principle it will only accept
drugs if their benefits outweigh their side effects (and if they actually
work!)
Dizziness is one of the
non-life-threatening side effects that they think most people can live with, so
you’ll see it listed among the effects of many commonly sold drugs.
A
2013 study published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics,
pointed to anti-convulsants, blood pressure medication, antihistamines,
antibiotics, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and anti-inflammatories as
causes.
If
you have to take any of these drugs then you’re probably going to experience dizziness,
so be extra vigilant to avoid injury, or look for better alternatives.
4. Low blood sugar: your body turns glucose into glycogen, which
is the fuel that your brain runs on. If that fuel gets too low then your brain
lets you know about it, which is why you can suddenly feel super hungry and
almost painfully desperate for food.
This
lack of blood sugar can also be the reason behind mood swings, low energy,
shaking, sweating, confusion and blurred vision. Anytime you feel like this,
reach for some fruit, a bowl of oats, or some wholegrain bread to give your
mind and body the glucose they crave.
5. Stroke: American Family Physician says that this one
is easy for a doctor to diagnose when you are at the hospital, because it’s
also accompanied by other neurological symptoms.
The
American Stroke Association advises you to look for facial drooping on one side
by checking that your smile is even, and to check for arm weakness by raising
both. If either of them drifts downwards then it could be a sign of stroke.
Slurred speech is a giveaway, and you can check this by speaking out loud
either from memory or by reading some tricky sentences.
Cure Your Vertigo Right
Away - A New Way to Diagnose Vertigo at Home
30
percent of people suffer from vertigo at some point in their lives but getting
it diagnosed can be a real hassle.
The
problem is that it’s such a specialized field, so when you arrive at the ER
they might not have a practitioner and the diagnostic instruments available to
help you.
But
they really should, because stroke is one of the potential causes of vertigo,
and if stroke is the underlying problem then a quick diagnosis can be crucial
to minimizing its impact.
Well,
help may finally be at hand, because researchers from the University of Sydney
have just designed video goggles that can help with the diagnosis of vertigo.
Details of their tests appear in a new article in the journal Neurology.
They
recruited 113 people who had already had the cause of their vertigo diagnosed
using traditional in-clinic diagnostic procedures. They were then taught how to
use the goggles to record their eye movements during vertigo episodes.
The
scientists hoped to use the recordings to diagnose the cause of vertigo.
43
of the volunteers suffered from Meniere’s disease, an inner ear disorder that
causes dizziness, tinnitus, a feeling of fullness, pain, and sometimes hearing
loss.
The
goggles did help the researchers to diagnose this disease accurately, which is
great news because this normally requires things like scans that can only be
done in a clinical setting.
40
of the 43 subjects with Meniere’s disease showed specific eye movements that
helped them make the right diagnosis in up to 95 percent of cases, and people
without it could be correctly ruled out in 95 percent of cases.
67
of the subjects suffered from vestibular migraine, a condition that causes
vertigo but doesn’t always include headaches. Their eye movements varied more
than the people with Meniere’s disease, so it was harder to diagnose using the
goggles. Still, some movements were clearly related to vestibular migraine, so
diagnosis was possible.
Seven
of the subjects suffered from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), a
condition where your head movements trigger your vertigo attacks.
Scientists
identified one eye movement that told them with 100 percent accuracy which
people had BPPV and with 77 percent accuracy which ones did not.
This
is great news, because it could mean that even when neurologists and
otolaryngologists aren’t available in an emergency room, video footage from the
goggles could be sent to remote specialists so they can make a diagnosis.
Another
great thing about these goggles is they’re portable. Vertigo sufferers don’t
often have attacks in clinics. They’re more likely to have them when they’re
just going about their day, so having the goggles means they can record their
attacks when they do occur.
Cure Your Vertigo Right
Away - Effective Home Remedies for Vertigo
The
most common cause of vertigo is a type called benign paroxysmal positional
vertigo (or BPPv).
That’s
quite an intimidating sounding name, but a new study in the journal Therapeutics
and Clinical Risk Management says that it’s actually quite easy to treat.
The
authors found out how easy by looking back over the cases of 359 patients who
had sought treatment at the dizziness clinic of Fujian Provincial Hospital in
Fuzhou, China between 2011 and 2017.
You
may not be aware of this, but your inner ear has semi-circular canals in it.
Unfortunately, their shape means that calcium crystals can accidentally fall
into them, and when they touch the nerve hairs that line them the balance
information they send to your brain gets scrambled, causing the vertigo
sensations.
It
usually comes on when you move your head, especially when you roll over in bed
during the night.
The
usual treatment for this condition is also head movements, but ones designed to
guide the crystals out of the semicircular canals.
The
Chinese scientists used two movements, one called the Epley maneuver and
another called the (wonderfully named!) barbecue roll to dislodge these
crystals.
It
sounds like one of those tricky plastic toys where you guide a tiny ball
through a maze by tilting it, but in this case with a human! Still, tricky or
not, both methods worked well.
There’s
a canal at the back of the inner ear where crystals most often get stuck.
Doctors call it the posterior semicircular canal. 95.8 percent of these cases
were completely cleared up a month after the treatment.
The
horizontal semicircular canal is the second most common crystal trap. One month
after treatment 100 percent of these cases were fixed.
It
was more difficult to treat cases where the crystals were trapped in more than
one canal. In fact, these cases were the hardest to treat of all.
The
head had to be moved in different directions to dislodge them from each canal,
but hard though this was, an impressive 75 percent of cases were resolved a
month after treatment.
So,
the good news is that the Epley maneuver and the barbecue roll are both really
great at clearing up the most common type of vertigo and the even better news
is that you can do them both at home.
Of
course, you won’t know which ear canals the crystals are trapped in, so you
can’t know which movements will work for you. This means that your success rate
might be lower than you’d get in a clinical setting, but that shouldn’t put you
off trying.
Here’s
how to do the barbecue roll if the crystals are trapped in a canal in your
right ear:
·
Lie
on your right side for 30 seconds.
·
Roll
onto your back and stay there for 30 seconds.
·
Roll
onto your left side and stay there for 30 seconds.
·
Drop
your chin slightly and roll over onto your stomach while propping yourself up
on your elbows. Stay in that position for 30 seconds.
·
Roll
back onto your right side and stay there for 30 seconds with your chin still
down.
·
Sit
up slowly and keep your chin down for 15 minutes.
It
literally is that simple, but if it doesn’t work for you, then try starting on
your left side and reversing the steps or try the Epley maneuver instead. A
quick search online will turn up the instructions for that one.
The
only downside to treatment is that these movements will trigger your vertigo
and make it difficult for you to move correctly, so it might help to have a
friend or a relative on hand to support you through the steps.
For
more ideas to cure your vertigo right away, watch this video - Vertigo: causes,symptoms, and treatments
This post is from the
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most effective vertigo home remedies, that utilizes the power of exercises to
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This will help to
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