Q Is there anything I can do right away when dizziness suddenly comes on strong at home?
A Sit or lie down immediately in a safe place to prevent falling, fix your gaze on one point, and move your head slowly. Resting in a dark, quiet place usually helps it settle. However, if it is the first time you experience severe dizziness or it comes with neurological symptoms, you must go to the emergency room.
Detailed Answer
The most important thing during a dizziness attack is preventing falls. Immediately sit or lie down and keep your head still, and looking at a wall or a single distant point makes the dizziness less severe. Avoiding sudden changes of posture and resting in a quiet, dark place usually allows BPPV or vestibular neuritis dizziness to subside within a few minutes. Slowly drinking water to prevent dehydration also helps.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Dongjedang recommends, as everyday management, five to ten minutes of abdominal breathing a day to release tension in the nervous system, and applying a warm towel to the stiffened back of the neck and shoulders to open the passages of blood flow to the head. Such emergency measures only soothe the symptoms and do not remove the cause, so if it recurs, you should combine treatment that addresses the circulatory and qi-blood background from which dizziness arises in order to reduce such situations.
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