Emotional well-being
Patients should treat their disease correctly, not only should they not take a “no matter what” attitude, but they should also not be worried and anxious. Long-term sadness and nervousness are more likely to aggravate the dysfunction of the vegetative nerves, thus aggravating the patient’s condition. Patients should maintain an optimistic mood, Shu but the mood, and appropriate to participate in recreational activities, more interaction with relatives, friends and colleagues, in order to clear their nervousness. The patient’s bedroom should be neat and quiet, and the light should be slightly dark.
Pay attention to safety and prevent accidents
The disease is an episodic disease, which can occur suddenly without obvious causes and aura, so patients should pay attention to safety in their daily life and work. In addition, it is better for patients not to engage in jobs with high responsibility and easy to be dangerous.
Pay attention to dietary regimen
Generally speaking, the patient’s diet should be light and nutritious, with fish, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and other foods, while fatty and spicy products (such as fatty meat, tobacco, wine, chili, pepper, etc.) are easy to help heat and consume gas, so it is not advisable to eat more. In addition, due to the special nature of the disease, patients are also required to enter a low-salt diet and pay attention to less water consumption.
Strengthen exercise, enhance physical fitness
Patients should pay attention to strengthening exercise, and according to the physical condition to develop a suitable exercise program, persistent, step by step, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and improve the ability to resist disease. Generally speaking, patients can choose to run, walk, play ball, sword dance, taijiquan, qigong and so on. Patients should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, avoid strain, sleep enough, avoid mood swings, anxiety, irritation, tension, fear, anxiety and so on. It is possible to cause vertigo, and the diet should be light, less alcoholic, and absolute bed rest when vertigo attacks, and do not swing the head from side to side.
Avoid eating for people with vertigo
Honey
It is flat and sweet in nature, and although it has the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, it has the disadvantage of being sticky and congested. Therefore, it is suitable for people with vertigo who are physically weak, but it is contraindicated for people with vertigo obstructed by phlegm.
Jujube
Warm in nature and sweet in taste, it can nourish qi and benefit blood, so it is suitable for people with vertigo due to deficiency of qi and blood. However, jujube is greasy and helps phlegm. According to “Introduction to Medicine”, “more food moves the wind”. For those who suffer from dizziness caused by phlegm, eating it will aggravate phlegm and dampness, so it should be avoided.
Chili
It is said in “Food taboos” that it is “hard and very hot”, so it is easy to consume yin and promote heat and fire. In the “Medicine”, it is pointed out that “chili pepper, eat more dazzling spin, fire is also.” This indicates that the hyperactive liver Yang, liver fire, including hypertension, vertigo, should be avoided.
Lychee
Warm in nature, sweet and sour. “Yulan medicine” that “litchi, sweet and warm nourishing.” The “Compendium of Materia Medica” has said: “fire patients are especially contraindicated.” The ancients also believed that: eating too much lychee meat will be intoxicated, with dizziness, nausea, weakness, which is due to eating too much in the body caused by disorders of sugar metabolism. Therefore, the liver fire vertigo and phlegm vertigo people, when the law avoid eating.
Yellow essence
The “Materia Medica” is written: “yellow essence, for the nourishing and greasy products, if the spleen deficiency has dampness, should not take it, afraid of its greasy diaphragm.” The “Justice of the Materia Medica” also says: “Those who have dampness and phlegm should not take it.” Therefore, phlegm and turbidity in the blockage, clear Yang does not rise dizziness, do not eat it.
Mustard
Although it has the effect of removing phlegm and promoting qi, it is easy to generate heat and fire. The Materia Medica Derivative says: “Eat more to move the wind.” The “Compendium of Materia Medica” also says: “Long-term food is the accumulation of warmth into heat, too much pungency, depletion of the true essence of the person, liver wood is sick, faint people’s eyes.” Therefore, it is not to be eaten by those who have internal fire in the liver and dizziness due to hyperactivity of liver yang.
Betel nut
It is a qi-depleting food. In the “Classic of the Materia Medica”, there is a warning: “Avoid it if you are sick with qi deficiency. Where yin and yang deficiency, deficiency in the middle qi, …… all in the contraindicated.” Therefore, anyone who is deficient in qi and blood and has vertigo in a weak body should not take it.
Radish tassel
It is the leaf of radish. It can regulate qi and eliminate food, but it is easy to consume qi and hurt the right. Therefore, the “New Ginseng of Drinking Pieces” cautions, “It is forbidden for those with weak qi and blood.” Therefore, it should be avoided by those who are weak and sickly and have dizziness due to deficiency of qi and blood.
Lotus leaf
Although it is flat in nature and bitter in taste, it can “clear the wind-heat of the head and eyes and stop dizziness”, but it should be avoided by those who have dizziness due to deficiency of qi and blood. As the Materia Medica from the New says: “It is forbidden for the deficient to consume it.”
In addition, people with deficiency vertigo should avoid eating onion, ginger, chili pepper, pepper, cinnamon, radish, tea, white wine and other spicy and dry things that consume qi; people with phlegm-damp vertigo should also avoid eating cinnamon, fatty meat, astragalus, goose and other nourishing and greasy products that help dampness and produce phlegm; people with liver-yang vertigo should also avoid eating dog meat, rooster, chili pepper, cinnamon, ginseng, Chuanxiong, Zihecha and other sweet and spicy foods that help heat and fire.
Preventive care for people with vertigo
(I) Functional exercises
It is extremely beneficial for patients with vertigo to perform functional exercises, especially for plant nerve dysfunction and drug-induced vertigo. Practicing taijiquan, massage, gymnastics and appropriate head exercises can be effective. People with motion sickness can gradually start from a short distance ride in a car, slow rotation chair, turning in place, etc., repeatedly take that transportation several times, gradually increase the amount of activity, to be persistent, the symptoms can be significantly reduced. Such as training and self-relaxation, biofeedback training combined with better results.
(2) Release mental worries
Repeated attacks of vertigo can make patients and their families very nervous. Doctors should be kind and give necessary comfort. Patients should have sufficient sleep, regular life, comfortable environment and less greasy and easy to digest diet, especially in the hot summer. Some patients who are too nervous should be given a small amount of sedative. Important points
The caregiver should take care of any up and down activities of the patient during the attack, such as urinating and defecating, gargling, etc., to prevent injuries from falling.
Patients should try not to do any turning activities to avoid inducing dizziness.
If the dizziness persists and the headache worsens, the patient should go to the hospital for treatment.
Care of vertigo during the attack
(1) During vertigo attack, patients should rest in bed in the position of their choice. Keep the bedroom extremely quiet, with as much dark light as possible, but the air should flow smoothly. Abstain from stimulating diet, smoking and alcohol, and use less salt diet.
(2) Eliminate the patient’s nervousness and worries, and stop the drug immediately if the vertigo is caused by drug poisoning.
(3) Do not go out alone during intermittent period to prevent sudden attack and accident. For patients with positional vertigo, strengthen vestibular exercise, pay attention to mental conditioning and keep relaxed. Sedatives and vasodilators can be given during the attack period with the aim of improving local blood circulation. Dehydrating agents are auxiliary medications to eliminate water accumulation in the inner ear. Chinese medicine treatment, acupuncture and herbal medicine. During an acute attack, rest in bed should be absolute and never get up and walk alone reluctantly to avoid a fall accident. During the attack, explain to the patient that this patient is not a serious disease and release the psychological barriers. The room should be dark when resting, avoid bright light stimulation, and draw the curtains to avoid light.
To reduce vertigo when in a particular position, assist the patient to assume a comfortable position to reduce vertigo symptoms and allow the patient to rest adequately.
During the attack, the intake of water and sodium should be limited to control edema, which is also one of the measures to prevent and treat this disease. It is also a measure to prevent the recurrence of the disease. The patient should have good living habits, get enough sleep and avoid excessive mental and physical work.
Preventive care for cervical vertigo
(1) Correct the poor posture of head and neck in life and work.
(2) Prevent trauma to the neck.
(3) Drivers should wear seat belts to prevent cervical injury due to emergency braking. Cervical spondylosis rehabilitation treatment: The treatment plan is to reduce the irritation and compression of nerve roots, dural sac and vertebral artery; reduce edema or adhesion of nerve roots; relieve spasm of cervical, shoulder and arm muscles to achieve cervical spine stability.
Home rehabilitation treatment for neurogenic cervical spondylosis.
(1) Cervical gymnastics: you can design your own such as
① head and neck slowly carry out forward flexion and backward extension, left and right lateral bending, internal and external rotation, relaxation action, shoulder and rib cage together action.
② Sitting position with hands crossed and clasped behind the pillow, so that the head is tilted back and the chest is held forward to expand the vertebral space.
③ supine position, neck pillow on the pillow, so that the head is tilted back, and then you can turn your head from side to side, which can relax the cervical muscles.
Precautions for traction.
① The direction of traction force is 20-30 degree angle to the torso to fit the physiological curvature of cervical spine.
② Gradually increase the weight of traction, and the maximum amount of traction is best for comfort and effectiveness after traction.
③Traction should be stopped immediately if symptoms such as temporomandibular joint pain and vertigo are felt during traction.