Dizziness is a common symptom that people suffer from. According to reports, about 30% of the general population has experienced moderate to severe dizziness, 25% of which is vertigo, and dizziness is also a leading cause of medical visits for people over 65 years of age.
Why do you get dizzy?
Although dizziness is common, its etiology is complex and may involve multiple disciplines such as otolaryngology, neurology, neurosurgery, general internal medicine, and orthopedics.
What are the common conditions that cause dizziness?
Cervical spine
Dizziness is a common symptom in people with bad cervical spine. Patients experience a change in position due to extension or rotation of the neck which induces dizziness.
Cervical spine type dizziness is often caused by chronic poor sleeping posture, resulting in cervical spine hyperplasia, deformation or degeneration, tightening of the neck muscles, and lack of blood supply to the brain due to obstruction of arterial blood supply, which is the main cause of dizziness.
This condition can cause patients to feel tightness, limited flexibility, and occasional pain, numbness, or even coldness and a feeling of heaviness in the neck. The diagnosis can be assisted by a neck radiograph.
Patients with hypotension
The blood pressure range for a normal person is between 90-140 mmHg systolic (high pressure) and 60-90 mmHg diastolic (low pressure).
Hypotension is usually defined as blood pressure below 90/60mmHg, which can lead to dizziness, headache, coldness and weakness of the limbs due to insufficient blood supply to the brain and body. The best way to identify this is to measure blood pressure immediately, which is one of the main causes of most vertigo.
Patients with hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia means that the concentration of venous plasma glucose (blood glucose for short) is too low, generally the fasting blood glucose concentration is less than 2.8 mmol/L in adults and ≤3.9 in diabetic patients.
mmol/L is hypoglycemia.
Hypoglycemia can cause dysfunction of the body due to lack of sufficient glucose supply to the brain. Its initial manifestations are mental symptoms such as mental inattention, slow thinking and speech, dizziness, drowsiness, etc. In serious cases, convulsions, coma or even death may occur.
Other types of diseases
Other diseases that cause dizziness include various cardiovascular diseases, anemia, infections, poisoning, colds, etc., which can be clarified only after relevant tests are performed in a hospital.
What should I do if I get dizzy?
First of all, when dizziness occurs, do not be anxious, you can make a preliminary judgment with the accompanying symptoms and deal with them according to the characteristics, which can help us to avoid the trouble of dizziness.
Dizziness due to cervical spondylosis
Dizziness caused by cervical spondylosis will generally be relieved soon and does not require special treatment, but after the symptoms are relieved, it also requires self-care and conditioning.
Warmly remind, long-term desk work friends should increase the time between work breaks and activities to enhance blood circulation throughout the body, eliminate local muscle fatigue, prevent and relieve cervical strain injury.
Relief methods.
You can choose a suitable pillow, the thickness of about 10cm or so, to maintain a certain degree of hardness and elasticity. It is best for those who are used to lying on their backs to put a small pillow under the neck to maintain the physiological bending of the cervical spine. Those who are used to lying on their side should fill the pillow to the gap between the face and the shoulder to reduce the burden on the neck.
Normally, you should prevent neck trauma and pillow fall to avoid cervical ligament injury, and you can also exercise in the form of cervical spine health exercises to prevent the aggravation of cervical spondylosis.
Dizziness caused by low blood pressure
Low blood pressure does not mean that there is a disease, and if there is no other discomfort, there is no need for treatment. Attention should be paid to frequent blood pressure measurement, adequate rest, good fall prevention measures when bathing, standing for a long time or suddenly changing posture, avoiding hot and stuffy environments and dressing loosely.
In addition, patients need to pay attention to strengthen nutrition in diet, can eat cinnamon red dates, lily honey and other tonic food, less celery, winter melon, green beans, hawthorn, bitter melon, onions, radish, kelp and other hypotensive diuretic food, the daily salt intake can be increased appropriately, and adhere to exercise.
Dizziness caused by hypoglycemia
Patients who often commit hypoglycemic dizziness should usually pay more attention to avoid overexertion and strenuous exercise, eat regularly, and carry some fruit candies, cookies and other foods with them in case of emergency.
In addition, patients who are taking insulin should strictly calculate the dosage ratio between regular insulin and long-acting insulin.
Recurring dizziness symptoms
If someone around you has repeated symptoms of dizziness, it is still important to go to the hospital promptly. Because there are many kinds of diseases involved in this symptom, it may not be possible to clarify its disease attribution for a while. You can go to the neurology department first, and then refer if the diagnosis of the doctor determines that the dizziness is caused by other system diseases.