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| Why dizzy - the causes of dizziness and symptoms |
Why do we get dizzy
When the world revolves around you in the literal, but not figurative sense, it is worth worrying about your health - this may indicate serious illness.
Content:
Pathological dizziness
Drug therapy
When to see a doctor immediately
Dizziness treatment at home
Vertigo - this is the scientific name for the state when everything around starts to spin before your eyes. Most often, dizziness occurs in older people, and more often in women than in men.
People often come to complaints about disorientation in space in medical institutions - they are in second place after complaints of a headache. But to diagnose vertigo is difficult, since you have to rely only on the individual sensations of a person.
This condition can be described approximately as follows: the patient experiences uncertainty when walking, it seems to him that he is being led either one way or the other, objects are swinging, there is a feeling of whirling on the carousel, and a disturbance in the sense of balance.
This is dizziness if:
there are sensations of rotation around its axis or rotation of the situation;
arms and legs become barely warm;
hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating);
feeling of fear, lack of air;
prostration;
nausea, vomiting;
heart rate and pressure increase;
tinnitus, hearing loss;
the appearance of flies in front of the eyes, darkening in the eyes.
Physiological causes of dizziness:
Fright
low iron with malnutrition;
hypoglycemic conditions - depletion of the energy reserve of the body;
dizziness in women shortly or during PMS or pregnancy.
Pathological dizziness
Such dizziness occurs with diseases of the inner ear, osteochondrosis and hernias of the cervical spine, strokes, thrombosis, ischemia, migraine, panic attacks, menopause, brain tumor, taking certain medications. About 80 diseases cause this symptom, so to determine at random that you don’t succeed - you need to see a doctor.
Drug therapy
Often dizziness is called a short-term loss of orientation in space, darkening in the eyes after a sharp movement has been performed. This is called "orthostatic collapse", and it occurs due to a sharp outflow of blood from the head.
If the cause of dizziness is a violation of the blood supply, doctors recommend taking vasodilator and antihistamines and drugs and nootropics, muscle relaxants that will help relieve muscle spasm. In women, dizziness caused by menopause changes is treated with hormonal drugs. But you can’t prescribe medication for yourself on the Internet - you need to see a doctor.
In order to exclude such cases, it is necessary to observe the regime of work and rest, sleep and wakefulness, mental and physical stress. It is also undesirable to use foods that increase blood pressure: coffee, tea, spicy, salty, fried foods, quit smoking.
It is useful to take tinctures from ginger root, parsley seeds, fennel, hawthorn. Reception of folk remedies must be agreed with the attending physician.
When to see a doctor immediately
If the head is spinning for the first time and nausea, vomiting, or headache has begun;
if you feel dizzy and you lose consciousness;
if there is weakness, trembling of the extremities, tachycardia, sweating, lack of air, pain behind the sternum against the background of dizziness;
if all this lasts more than an hour;
if sensitivity decreases sharply, there is a weakness in one half of the body, face or legs and arms.
Dizziness treatment at home
If you suddenly got up and dizzy - tilt your head forward and make a full exhale;
if you are sitting, tilt your head to your knees and hold it until the dizziness passes;
splash cold water on your face;
smell ammonia;
drink some sweet tea;
To avoid such cases, try to slowly go to bed, get up, bend over.
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