Treating Vertigo - 6 Of The Best Treatments

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Treatment of dizziness with modern and folk remedies

Dizziness, as a symptom, is surrounded by many myths. For example, it is believed that the most common cause of vertigo is damage to the cervical spine (osteochondrosis, herniated disc, etc.).

It is also customary to consider dizziness as a symptom of brain diseases. All these reasons are capable of provoking attacks of dizziness, but they are not primary. Therefore, before starting to treat vertigo, it is so important to familiarize yourself with the main causes of this condition.

Content:

• Why is your head spinning?
• How to determine the cause of dizziness?
• Treatment of vertigo with modern means
• Treatment of dizziness with folk remedies

Why is your head spinning?

Medication is the most common cause of vertigo today. Dizziness is a side effect of various medications.

These include:

• Drugs to reduce blood pressure.
• Medicines to lower blood cholesterol levels.
• Hormonal drugs.

Sometimes, to get rid of dizziness does not require any serious intervention, it is enough just to change the drug.

Injury to the cervical spine is the second most common cause of vertigo. For example, displacement of the upper cervical vertebrae.

If a person has a hernia of the cervical spine, then in addition to dizziness, he will be pursued by very severe pains radiating to the arm. In general, it is not difficult to understand that dizziness is a consequence of damage to the cervical spine, since pain always comes to the fore. They can be concentrated both in the neck itself and in the back of the head, or under the back of the head. Another hallmark of cervical spine pathology is increased dizziness during head rotation. You can do a simple test yourself. It is enough to turn your head to the side while sitting. If at the same time the dizziness increases, then you really need to examine the spine.

The third most common cause of vertigo development is various brain damage. These could be his strokes, injuries or tumors. It is possible to exclude this pathology after undergoing an MRI of the organ.

The fourth cause of vertigo is emotional distress. This can also include stress, overwork, depression. Even some emotions can lead to dizziness, for example, fears or a serious problem of choice that a person faces.

Also, one should not forget about such a cause of dizziness as damage to the auditory nerve or inner ear. This vertigo is called peripheral.

Certain dietary habits can cause dizziness. For example, vegetarianism. Health problems develop due to a lack of B vitamins and other trace elements. This also includes fasting and a low-carb diet. Dizziness develops when blood sugar levels drop sharply.

For some women, dizziness may occur during menstruation or during pregnancy. The climax is that period in the life of the representatives of the weak half of humanity, during which dizziness may begin to haunt them. At the beginning of menopause, it will be especially intense, and with time it weakens and disappears altogether.

Otitis media (ear inflammation) is one of the ENT pathologies that can trigger the development of dizziness. This can also include colds: flu, acute respiratory infections, acute respiratory viral infections, etc.

How to determine the cause of dizziness?

It is very difficult to independently determine the cause of dizziness, since there are many of them. Therefore, a medical consultation is necessary. First you need to visit the neurologist's office. During the examination, the doctor will perform specialized tests, after which he will refer the patient for an MRI of the brain and for Doppler ultrasonography of the vessels of the brain and neck (USDG). These two studies will identify pathologies in the neurological field.

If no diseases were found, then you should go to the otolaryngologist. He is obliged to check the condition of the auditory nerve and inner ear.

As a rule, these examinations are enough to make the correct diagnosis.

Treatment of vertigo with modern means

Vertigo treatment can be symptomatic or pathognomic:

1. You can eliminate an attack of dizziness by taking Betaserc. This is one of the most effective remedies for combating dizziness as a pathological symptom.
2. For long-term use, you can use the drugs Betahistin, Preductal or Cinnarizine. They are prescribed a course for 30 days. They improve the blood supply to the brain.
3. For a number of patients, sedatives such as Seduxen can help cope with attacks of dizziness.
4. Sometimes you can get rid of the problem by taking antihistamines, such as: Pipolfen or Diphenhydramine.
5. It is permissible to try to undergo a course of gentle massage of the collar zone, or go to an appointment with an osteopath. Such appointments can be given to patients with disorders of the cervical spine.
6. Sedative procedures help to cope well with the problem of psychogenic dizziness. This includes bathing and floating. They relax the nervous system, which makes it possible to get rid of dizziness attacks.

You need to understand that without a correct diagnosis, you can be treated for dizziness for a long time and to no avail. Therefore, high-quality diagnostics is of great importance.

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Treatment of dizziness with folk remedies

Alternative treatment of dizziness

To prepare this folk composition, you will need dry nettle herb (one tablespoon), which you need to brew in 150 milliliters of boiling water. Let the composition steep for four hours, and in a container that will be well wrapped in a warm blanket. After that, strain the broth and squeeze the raw materials. Add the same amount of apple juice. You need to use this composition three times a day fifteen minutes before a meal, fifty to one hundred milliliters. The composition is stored in the refrigerator.

When making this recipe, use fresh apple juice rather than store-bought apple juice boxes or sachets. You may need only fourteen days to heal with this compound, and then you will forget about the problem with dizziness for a long time. Then you can repeat the course of folk treatment for vertigo several more times a year.

From dizziness - "Deadly Power" balm

The following folk remedy, which is applied externally, will help you with dizziness. Take one hundred milliliters of 10% camphor oil, 30 milliliters of fir oil, 10 milliliters of juniper essential oil. Mix and shake these ingredients. The composition should be stored in a place where there is no access to sunlight.

With this folk remedy, you need to lubricate all the lymph nodes in the head area - where the temples are, above the eyebrows, around the ears, the ears themselves, the back of the head and in the area around the mouth and nose. This procedure will take you only two minutes, but it will help almost immediately and will not leave any consequences for the whole organism.

Treatment for vertigo with herbs

Take hawthorn flowers, meadowsweet flowers (meadowsweet flowers improve blood circulation in the brain), motherwort herb, rose hips - all the ingredients should be taken one tablespoon at a time. Mix and pour boiling water (one liter), let the broth brew for 24 hours.

You need to take the medicine one glass three times a day half an hour before meals. The total treatment time is three months.

Folk remedies for the treatment of senile dizziness

If you often experience severe dizziness, the following alternative treatment method will help you. Take 50 grams of chopped white peony root, 70 five grams of chopped lime blossom and 100 grams of mint. Everything needs to be mixed and two tablespoons of this composition are poured overnight in a thermos with boiling water - two glasses. The composition should be infused overnight. And in the morning, strain the broth and drink in four doses of one hundred milliliters half an hour before meals. You can also take an infusion of fruits and flowers of hawthorn. Brew it like tea.

And here's another simple plantain-based method. You will need one tablespoon of plantain leaf, which must first be chopped up. You can also use dried plantain leaf. Pour a glass of boiling water over it, and let the composition infuse for thirty minutes. Add one teaspoon of honey to this broth and drink everything at once at night. The course of treatment for vertigo is ten steps.

Author of the article: Alekseeva Maria Yurievna | Therapist

Education: From 2010 to 2016 Practitioner of the therapeutic hospital of the central medical-sanitary unit No. 21, city of elektrostal. Since 2016 she has been working in the diagnostic center No. 3.