The most common cause of vertigo is ‘benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)’. If you have BPPV, you may experience a sudden spinning sensation inside your head.

BPPV is characterized by brief episodes of mild to severe dizziness. Acute episodes of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo can be triggered by specific changes in head position, such as looking up or down (just as you do while drying laundry), and lying down, turning around, or sitting on bed. . If it progresses, you may also feel unbalanced when standing or walking.

The clinical presentation:

The most common symptoms of BPPV are

• Dizziness
• A feeling that things around you are spinning or moving (vertigo)
• feeling dizzy
• Instability leading to loss of balance.
• Blurred vision accompanying the sensation of vertigo
• Nausea and vomiting (same as one experiences during car sickness)

The triggers that cause BPPV episodes can vary from person to person, but are almost always caused by a change in head position. A BPPV attack can come and go. Symptoms can last less than a minute.

What happens inside to cause BPPV?

The inner ear which is directly connected to the brain is one of the most important organs of balance. Inside the inner ear we have a small organ called the vestibular labyrinth. It includes three semicircular canals that contain fluids and fine hair-like sensors that monitor the rotation of our head. If the semicircular canals become too sensitive to changes in the position of the head, they would not normally respond, one begins to feel dizzy.

Risk factor’s

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo can affect you at any age, but it becomes more common as you age. At least 40% of the population over 60 years of age may experience BPPV at least once in their life.

Tests and Investigations

Since it is primarily a functional disorder, most images can be negative. Despite this, the doctor may request an MRI to rule out other causes of imbalance, mainly organic causes such as cerebellar tumors or an acoustic neuroma, which is a non-cancerous tumor of the nerve that carries sound and balance information from the brain. inner ear to the brain.

Homeopathic treatment:

Homeopathy believes in restoring the lost balance within the semicircular canals through its deep-acting medicines. It not only relieves the symptomatic condition but also prevents the recurrence of symptoms in the future.

Common homeopathic remedies used in cases of BPPV are:

cone:

Helps the vertigo of the elderly and that derived from excesses and the widespread use of tobacco.

The patient has a sensation when staring at an object as if it is spinning in circles.

Vertigo when rising or descending stairs, with great weakness and tendency to sleep.

Associated with a numb sensation in the brain as stupefied, worse turning over in bed.

Ferrum-met:

This remedy works well for anemic vertigo, which is made worse by getting up suddenly from a sitting or lying position.

It comes on when going down a hill or crossing water, even if the water is calm.

He has vertigo worse when looking at running water.

Cocculus:

It has its main action on the solar plexus, and the vertigo that is related to digestive disorders accompanies this remedy.

Helps the neurasthenic type with occipital headache and lumbo-sacral irritation.

Along with the vertigo there is a flushed face and hot head, worse sitting and riding in a carriage; it is also worse after eating.

This remedy can also help those who have motion sickness in the car.

Toxic Rhus:

It helps in all those cases of vertigo, especially in elderly people, which appear as soon as the patient gets up from a sitting position.

Usually accompanied by heaviness in the extremities, it is probably caused by senile changes in the brain.

caustic:

It is suitable for vertigo that precedes paralysis.

There is a tendency to fall forward or sideways; there is great anxiety and weakness in the head.

Vertigo and weakness in the head. It corresponds, therefore, to the vertigo of organic brain diseases.

Argentum nitricum:

Vertigo, with weakness and trembling, is cured by this remedy when there is much mental confusion and a feeling of expansion.

It seems as if the houses are falling on him when he walks down the street.

It also suits the vertigo of brain and eye diseases.

It also helps in case of tinnitus.

Although these six remedies are most commonly used in cases of BPPV, each individual case may require a totally different remedy. A consultation with a homeopathic doctor will always help to resolve your particular case. Self-medication is not advised.