How to Overcome Dizziness

Reduce anxiety or stress. High stress can alter your breathing and hormone levels, leading to dizziness or lightheadedness and nausea. Certain anxiety disorders such as panic attacks or phobias can also cause dizziness. ^[2] If this is the case, reduce stress and anxiety in your life as much as you can by expressing your feelings and trying to resolve conflicts in your life. Relationships. Reducing your psychological burden can help you manage this condition.

• Sometimes measures such as changing jobs, reducing working hours, changing schedules or working from home more can help you reduce stress and anxiety.
• Natural stress treatments that can be done at home include meditation, yoga, tai chi, and deep breathing. Watching an online video tutorial before getting started might be helpful to you.

Drink a lot of water. Acute or chronic (long-term) dehydration is also a common cause of dizziness, especially lightheadedness. ^[3] When the body is dehydrated — due to vomiting or diarrhea, fever, or not drinking enough fluids on a hot day — the blood becomes thicker and the brain doesn’t get the oxygen it needs, leading to dizziness. face. Furthermore, lack of water 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) if you’re active or outdoors on a hot day.
• Avoid alcohol and caffeinated beverages such as coffee, black tea, carbonated sodas, and energy drinks. Alcohol and caffeine are diuretics and therefore will cause you to excrete more than usual.

Eat easily digestible foods. Low blood sugar is another common cause of lightheadedness, lightheadedness, headaches, and lethargy. ^[4] Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) is a common problem in people with diabetes, who take too much insulin, or in people who skip breakfast and are too busy to take the rest of their meals. during the day. The brain needs a certain amount of glucose in the blood to function. In this case, consider changing your insulin intake (with your doctor’s permission) if you have diabetes or eat foods that are quickly digested by your stomach/intestines and keep an eye on them. With low blood sugar, dizziness is often accompanied by sweating and lack of alertness. ^[5]

• Fresh, sweet fruit (especially blueberries and ripe bananas), fruit juices (especially sweet grape or apple juice), white bread, ice cream, and honey are all good foods to eat. increase blood sugar quickly.
• Conversely, persistently having too much sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia) can also cause dizziness through dehydration and excess acidity. ^[6] Chronic hyperglycemia is often present in undiagnosed/treated diabetic patients.

Stand up slowly. It can be said that orthostatic hypotension is the most common cause of short-term dizziness, especially in the elderly. ^[7] This condition occurs when people with relatively low blood pressure (especially systolic blood pressure readings) get up too quickly from a fixed position or while sitting. When standing quickly, the arteries do 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, leading to temporary dizziness or a feeling of fainting. If this seems to be the case for you, get up slowly and remember to hold onto something stationary for balance.

• If you are lying down, switch to a sitting position for a moment before standing up.
• Chronic low blood pressure can result from taking too many 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 low blood pressure.

Sleep more. Not getting enough sleep, both in quality and quantity, is another potential cause of vertigo, brain fog and overall imbalance. Chronic insomnia is associated with intense stress, high blood pressure, depression, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. All can cause dizziness to varying degrees. ^[8] Disrupted sleep can be associated with chronic anxiety, psychological/emotional trauma, chronic pain, caffeine use, substance abuse, restless legs syndrome and many other problems such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea (heavy snoring). In this case, turn off the TV and computer and go to bed earlier, and at the same time, avoid drinking caffeinated beverages (coffee, black tea, sparkling soda) at least 8 hours before going to bed.

• Sleeping late on the weekend is perfectly fine and may help you 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 right before bed include chamomile tea, valerian root extract, magnesium (to help relax muscles) and melatonin (a hormone that regulates sleep and circadian rhythms).

Avoid head injury. Head injuries from motor vehicle accidents and contact sports are common causes of mild to moderate brain damage, commonly known as concussion or concussion. The main symptoms of a concussion include dizziness with a dull headache, nausea, brain fog, and ringing in the ears. ^[9] Head injuries tend to be cumulative, meaning the condition gets worse with each injury and accumulates over time. Therefore, try to reduce the risk or accident that leads to “ringing bells”.

• Sports such as boxing, football, rugby and ice hockey have a particularly high risk of head injury.
• Always wear a seat belt while driving (prevent serious neck injuries) and avoid activities that move the head and neck forcefully, such as jumping jacks, bungee jumping, or riding roller coasters.