Vertigo Cures

Meniere’s disease is a condition characterized by sudden, sometimes severe attacks of vertigo, which is the sudden and unsteady sensation that you or your surroundings are moving or spinning. A Ménière’s episode generally involves severe vertigo (spinning), imbalance, nausea and vomiting. Following a severe attack, most people find that they are exhausted and must sleep for several hours. Some people experience brief “shocks”, and others have constant unsteadiness. These are attributed to sudden mechanical deformation of the otolith organs (utricle and saccule), causing a sudden activation of vestibular reflexes.

This is a very disabling symptom as it occurs without warning and can result in severe injury. Often destructive treatment (e.g. labyrinthectomy or vestibular nerve section ) is the only way to manage this problem. Ménière’s episodes may occur in clusters; that is, several attacks may occur within a short period of time. Between the acute attacks, most people are free of symptoms or note mild imbalance and tinnitus . In most cases, a progressive hearing loss occurs in the affected ear(s). Although an acute attack can be incapacitating, the disease itself is not fatal.

Causes of Meniere’s Disease

The common Causes of Meniere’s Disease:

The exact cause of Ménière syndrome is unknown. The current theory is that it is the response of the inner ear to injury.

A variety of disease processes can affect the vestibular and cochlear systems.

Part of the labyrinth ruptures, allowing fluid in different compartments to mix

Scar tissue causes a blockage in the labyrinth

Viral infection

Blood vessel problems

Medications, such as antibiotics and chemotheraypy agents

High cholesterol or other fats in the blood

Symptoms of Meniere’s Disease

Some of Meniere’s Disease:

Buzzing, ringing or roaring sound in the affected ear (tinnitus).

Noises or ringing in one ear (tinnitus)

Nausea, vomiting.

Sweating (may be profuse).

Uncontrollable eye movements.

Dizziness.

Hearing loss in one ear.

Treatment of Meniere’s Disease

Anti-vertigo medications, such as meclizine (Antivert), may combat the spinning sensation.

Drugs such as prochlorperazine (Compazine) can control nausea and vomiting.

Anti-anxiety medications, such as alprazolam (Xanax), may help relieve anxiety that can accompany a serious attack.

Avoid foods that are high in salt and high in sugar

Chocolate restriction.

Avoid medications that seem to bring on or worsen symptoms.

Bed rest during acute attacks of vertigo.

Consider getting exercise therapy to rehabilitate the inner ear.

Consider a hearing aid, if necessary.

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Homeopathic treatment for tinnitus, a condition of the ear characterized by continuous or intermittent noises unrelated to outside stimulus, usually reduces the frustration and discomfort that comes with it. Tinnitus can occur alone or as a symptom of other ear – or nerve-related diseases or injuries. Apart from roaring, ringing, or buzzing sounds, partial hearing loss may also be experienced.

Calcarea carbonica is usually indicated when tinnitus is experienced either alone or along with vertigo. Pulsing and cracking sensations in affected ears occurring with hearing problems are also some of the symptoms that this is prescribed for. People who respond well to this cure are often easily fatigued, chilly, feel anxious and overwhelmed when unwell, and crave sweets.

Carbo vegetabilis, on the other hand, is useful when tinnitus occurs accompanying flu or other diseases involving nausea and vertigo. Symptoms of these diseases are usually worse during the evening. The person affected feels faint and cold and craves fresh air and moving wind. This homeopathic remedy is also prescribed for slow recovery and prolonged illness.

Cinchona officinalis is another remedy that is useful in cases where the sufferer of tinnitus feels weak, touchy, and sensitive to noise. Often, this is indicated after the loss of blood or other fluids, such as through diarrhea, vomiting, surgery, or heavy sweating.

Chininum sulphuricum is usually useful when the roaring, ringing, and buzzing sounds accompanying tinnitus are loud enough that they seriously impair hearing. Vertigo and chills that make the tinnitus worse are common symptoms indicating need for this treatment.

Cimicifuga is an effective tinnitus remedy for people who are sensitive to noise and also experience frequent headaches, menstrual problems, and muscle pain and tension in the back or neck.

Coffea cruda is usually prescribed to nervous, excitable people whose tinnitus is accompanied by a feeling of buzzing near the back or rear portion of the head. Insomnia due to mental overstimulation is common among persons likely to respond well to this remedy.

Graphites will be beneficial to people whose tinnitus is associated with a degree of deafness. Clicking and hissing sounds are also indicators of tinnitus that may be receptive to this treatment.

Kali carbonicum is prescribed when tinnitus occurs with itching and cracking noises. Vertigo resulting from sudden head movements or turning is also another indicator. People who would benefit most from this are often conservative and feel anxiety in their stomachs.

Lycopodium is suggested when roaring, humming, and hearing impairment occur with tinnitus, or when discharges and ear infections occur.

These are just some of the options in remedying tinnitus. During homeopathic treatment for tinnitus, one must pay careful attention to the body’s response, adjusting dosage or changing remedy as necessary.

Ever wonder what causes dizziness? It can be incredibly debilitating and ruin a fun road trip, cruise, or bus tour, not to mention causing missed days at work, inability to drive and so on. The following is a simplistic everyday approach to understanding what causes simple benign vertigo and what you can do for relief.

You can think of the brain as a central processing center of all the information that is sent to it from the body. For instance, you touch something hot, a sensor in your hand sends a signal to your brain, you realize it hurts and instantly draw your hand back in pain. The interesting thing is that the original signal sent, is not pain. It isn’t pain until your brain processes the signal and you realize that particular sensory signal hurts!

So with dizziness and vertigo, millions of sensors in your body and head, in conjunction with your eyes and ears, constantly send your brain information about falling, spatial positioning, acceleration, and so on. One of these sensors in particular is found in the ear, and is responsible for sensing acceleration and deceleration. Now, if this sensors becomes irritated or simply hypersensitive, it can tell your brain, “Your falling!”. You brain then looks to the other sensors, such as the eyes, and if the eyes don’t agree, it doesn’t compute, and then you feel dizzy!! (no emails from ENT docs, neurologists or physiologists please! I’m just trying to keep it simple!)

Treatment and Expectations:

Try to find an area with least movement, such as the center of the boat or plane Try to breath cool, fresh air. Many odors will make the situation worse. Over-the-counter medications such as Dramamine or Bonine can be very effective for short trips or when symptoms occur intermittently. These medicines can make you drowsy however. For longer trips, ask your doctor to prescribe medication called Transderm-Scop (scopalimine transdermal patch) comes in the form of a patch can be worn behind the ear. You place them discreetly behind the ear and they work for about 3 days, per patch. Try not to drink alcohol at least one full day before traveling (at least don’t totally tie one on!) Plan it out, be well rested. If a person gets car sick easily, consider allowing them to drive! It works! It’s easier to prevent the onset of motion sickness, than to make it go away after it hits yo

Richard Fan is a practicing emergency/trauma physician assistant in a busy Southern California ER, and an medical officer on the national disaster response team,

More than 300 medications that are approved for treatment of various medical conditions may cause vertigo, dizziness or both. An exacerbation in vertigo or dizziness can be another side effect of these drugs. The physician who prescribes the medication can not predict the effect on the vestibular system of his patient, if it is the first time that his patients takes this drug. Furthermore: a medication that was innocent in the past, may cause imbalance symptoms in advanced age.

When a cardiologist is injecting an IV medication as part of a life saving procedure, the possibility of vertigo as a side effect is not important. The physician must focus on the issue of saving life. The situation is different in elective treatments of which vertigo or dizziness are side effects.

Shemesh Zecharya (M.D.) from “Hadassah Ein Kerem” hospital in Jerusalem is presenting illustrative examples from the field of Cardio-vascular diseases.

What is the cause and what is the outcome of the treatment?

When the patient is experiencing a severe imbalance with vertigo or dizziness – this question may become the most important issue in the treatment. Based on the intensity it is possible to classify the diseases to two categories: Acute onset and Gradual onset. I did not use the term “Chronic onset” because the “Acute onset” may continue as “Chronic onset”.

When the patient can tolerate the process of deep investigation of the precipitating factors of his vertigo or dizziness, the physician and the patient can isolate the relevant factors and regulate the medication that could cause it. In the next line we shall try to relate to more specific examples from the spectrum of treatments for Cardio-vascular diseases.

Hyperlipidemia is a diagnosis of elevated blood fats such as Total Cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol or Triglycerides. Analysis of the blood picture of fats by an expert can assist in recognizing an increased risk of cardio-vascular diseases or weather there is no risk.

The first step in treatment is a special diet. When there is no benefit from the dietary treatment, the physician offers a drug treatment, and the most common medications for decreasing the risk are classified as “Statins”.

This treatment can be applied slowly and gradually. In low doses of the statins, the treatment is tolerated very well. When there is need to increase the dose to high levels, some patients will suffer from side effects, Vertigo, Dizziness or Tinnitus (sensation of noise in the ears or the head) may occur.

Cardiac Arrhythmia may be accompanied by vertigo or dizziness. The Cardiologist will have to decide what is the underlying cause: the anti arrhythmic medication or the Cardiac Arrhythmia itself. When a patient is admitted to emergency room, part of the routine data exchange includes a brief convey of information using short professional terms between the medical staff, and as a result, nobody writes in the chart that there are problems of imbalance.

When there are co-dominant symptoms: vertigo and treated cardiac arrhythmia the cardiologist should differentiate between episodic abnormal cardiac activity and side effects of the anti arrhythmic medication. Drugs such as Lidocaine, Tocainide, Mexiletine, Moricizine or Dofetilide are in the list.

Another possible combination: vertigo due to side effects of medications that is limited to the episode of the cardiac arrhythmia.

A more complicated medical condition may happen when there is no vertigo, but there are attacks of nausea or vomiting. It may occur during treatment by Quinidine (nausea. May cause tinnitus), Procainamide, Propafenone, Amiodarone (nausea alone) and Ibutilide (nausea alone).

In emergency room, under conditions of stress it is possible that someone will write down in the medical chart of the patient: “vertigo, nausea and vomiting” instead of just “nausea and vomiting”.

It is obvious that in a patient with Cardiac Arrhythmia the medical staff gives the highest priority to the investigation of the cardio-vascular parameters and (temporarily) neglect all other factors. The patient that wants a relief from his/her vertigo or dizziness may remain frustrated.

In the bottom line: even if the symptoms of a cardiac event are very mild, it is important to start the medical workup from a cardiologist, and only then go to a clinic for evaluation and treatment of vertigo and dizziness.

What treatments do you give your patients?

My patients come after failure of the physiotherapy, drug treatment such as betahistine or cinnarizine, given by otolaryngologists or insufficient effect of sedative medications that were prescribed by a psychiatrist. I offer my patients metabolic intervention. In most patients it is very effective.

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