Sometimes a change of job, reduced hours, a different schedule, or working more from home can reduce stress and anxiety issues. Natural stress-relieving practices you can try at home include meditation, yoga, tai chi, and deep breathing exercises. Watching how-to videos online before you start can be helpful.
Aim for about 8 eight-ounce glasses of water per day (64 ounces total) if you’re physically active or outside on hot days. Avoid drinking alcohol and caffeinated beverages such as coffee, black tea, soda pop, and energy drinks. [4] X Trustworthy Source PubMed Central Journal archive from the U. S. National Institutes of Health Go to source Alcohol and caffeine are diuretics and make you urinate more often than normal.
Fresh sweet fruit (especially ripe bananas and blueberries), fruit juice (especially sweetened apple or grape juice), white bread, ice cream, and honey are all good foods to eat to quickly raise your blood sugar level. Conversely, constantly having too much sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia) can also cause dizziness due to dehydration and over-acidity. [7] X Research source Chronic hyperglycemia usually occurs in people with undiagnosed / untreated diabetes. Reduce your sodium intake since too much could make vertigo and dizziness worse. [8] X Trustworthy Source PubMed Central Journal archive from the U. S. National Institutes of Health Go to source
If you’re getting up from a lying position, transition to a seated position for a few moments first, before standing up. Chronic hypotension may be due to taking too much blood pressure medication, muscle relaxants, or vasodilators, such as Viagra and similar drugs for erectile dysfunction. Peripheral nerve problems, dehydration, and other medications may also cause hypotension.
Sleeping late on the weekends is fine and may make you feel more rested and/or less dizzy, but you’ll never be able to properly “catch up” on the sleep you lost during the workweek. Natural sleep aids that you can take shortly prior to bedtime include chamomile tea, valerian root extract, magnesium (relaxes muscles), and melatonin (a hormone that regulates sleep and circadian rhythms).
Try to avoid using screens 2 hours before you go to bed so you get better sleep.
Sports such as boxing, football, rugby, and ice hockey are particularly risky for suffering significant head trauma. Always wear your seat belt while driving (prevents severe whiplash), and avoid activities that jar your head and neck such as bouncing on a trampoline, bungee jumping, or going on roller-coaster rides.
Never stop taking a medication “cold turkey” without the supervision of your doctor, even if you believe it to be the cause of your dizziness. It’s better to wean yourself off and/or switch to a drug with similar actions. Due to the complexities of chemical interactions in the body, it’s practically impossible to predict how more than 2 medications may interact with each other.
Plugging your nose and then trying to blow through it is a method of clearing out the narrow Eustachian tubes, which run from the throat to the middle ear. The tubes allow the equalization of pressure on each side of the eardrum, and dizziness or poor balance is often a consequence of having them clogged. [15] X Research source Other conditions often associated with dizziness include allergies, migraine headaches, and anemia (low red blood cell count). [16] X Research source
If you’re had a mild heart attack or stroke, less blood will circulate to your brain and cause dizziness and other symptoms. Your doctor may take an electrocardiogram (ECG) to rule out a heart attack. The unfortunate irony is that medication for reducing hypertension is notorious for causing dizziness.
You can buy blood glucose monitors from pharmacies, which require you to prick your finger for a blood sample. Without fasting, normal readings should be below 125 mg/dL for a general reference. Short-term hyperglycemia can also be caused by eating lots of refined sugar (called a sugar high or rush), which may lead to some dizziness.
Benign positional vertigo is often caused when crystals inside the ear become dislodged and irritate the semicircular canals. [22] X Research source Sometimes vertigo is severe enough to cause nausea, vomiting, headache, and loss of balance for hours at a time.
Although a single spinal adjustment can sometimes completely relieve your dizziness or sense of vertigo if it’s caused by upper neck issues), more than likely it will take 3-5 treatments to notice significant results. Arthritis of the upper neck, especially rheumatoid arthritis, can lead to chronic bouts of dizziness.
