Dizzy and dazed

When talking about dizziness and blurred vision, people will definitely think of the elderly, because most elderly people always say that they often feel dizzy and blurred vision. In fact, some diseases can also cause people to experience dizziness and blurred vision. What physical problems can cause dizziness and blurred vision? Let's take a look at the causes of dizziness and vertigo from both Chinese and Western medicine.

1. Causes of dizziness and vertigo

1. Internal injury caused by emotions. The body is naturally yang-excessive, and excessive anger causes hyperactivity of liver yang, yang rising and wind moving, resulting in dizziness. Or due to long-term depression and anger, qi stagnation turns into fire, which consumes liver yin, hyperactivity of liver yang, yang rising and wind moving, disturbing the clear mind and causing dizziness.

2. Improper diet will damage the spleen and stomach, weaken the spleen and stomach, cause no source for the production of qi and blood, and cause dizziness due to lack of nourishment to the clear orifices; or addiction to alcohol, fatty foods, hunger, fullness, and fatigue will damage the spleen and stomach, causing dysfunction of healthy functioning, so that food and water cannot be transformed into essence, moisture accumulates to form phlegm, phlegm and dampness block the middle part of the body, and turbid yin cannot descend, causing dizziness.

3. Trauma and surgery: After head trauma or surgery, qi stagnation and blood stasis may block the clear orifices and cause vertigo.

4. Physical weakness, long-term illness, blood loss, and excessive fatigue. The kidney is the foundation of one's innate constitution, storing essence and producing marrow. If one is born with insufficiency, the kidney essence is insufficient, or one suffers from kidney deficiency due to old age, or suffers from long-term illness, or one suffers from excessive sexual intercourse, this will lead to kidney essence deficiency and inability to produce marrow. The brain is the sea of ​​marrow, and if the marrow sea is insufficient, both the upper and lower parts of the body will be weak, causing dizziness. Or the kidney yin is deficient and the liver is not nourished, resulting in insufficient liver yin, inability of yin to control yang, and hyperactivity of liver yang, causing dizziness. Dizziness can occur after a serious illness, a long illness, or blood loss, which causes the person to become too weak to recover, or overwork, which causes the decline of qi and blood, or both qi and blood deficiency. If the qi is deficient, the clear yang cannot develop, and if the blood is deficient, the brain loses nourishment, all of which can cause dizziness.

2. What are the diseases that can easily cause dizziness?

Dizziness can be caused by a variety of conditions, but the most common ones are:

1. Headaches caused by head lesions are divided into headaches caused by intracranial diseases and headaches caused by extracranial diseases.

2. Symptoms of brain injury: Head injury in the past few days. Headache lasting more than a day, or loss of consciousness for a few seconds after the injury, coming and going headaches, memory loss, vomiting.

3. If an elderly person with anemia experiences dizziness, fatigue, or pale complexion, he should go to the hospital for a check-up to see if he has anemia. If the elderly do not pay attention to nutritional health, they are likely to suffer from anemia. In addition, elderly patients with indigestion, peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding and chronic inflammatory diseases may all develop secondary anemia.

4. Hypertension In addition to dizziness, patients with hypertension often also experience headaches, palpitations, irritability, tinnitus, insomnia and other discomforts.

5. Heart disease In the early stages of coronary heart disease, some people may experience headaches, dizziness, weakness in the limbs, and difficulty concentrating. Dizziness is mainly caused by atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries of the heart, resulting in insufficient blood supply. 6. High blood viscosity. Hyperlipidemia, thrombocytosis, etc. can cause high blood viscosity and slow blood flow, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain and symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, and weakness. There are many reasons for high blood lipids, the most important of which is unreasonable diet structure.

7. Patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis feel dizzy and often suffer from insomnia, tinnitus, emotional instability, forgetfulness, and numbness in the limbs. Cerebral arteriosclerosis reduces the inner diameter of blood vessels, reduces blood flow in the brain, causes insufficient blood and oxygen supply to the brain, and causes dizziness.

8. Cervical spondylosis often causes tightness in the neck, limited flexibility, occasional pain, numbness and coldness in the fingers, and a feeling of heaviness. Cervical spondylosis compresses the cervical vertebral arteries, causing insufficient blood supply to the brain, which is the main cause of dizziness caused by this disease.

Many people think that dizziness is a minor problem. They will feel dizzy when they are hungry, before and after menstruation, or when they stand up after squatting for a long time. Generally speaking, occasional dizziness or dizziness due to changes in body position will not be a big problem and should not be a serious concern. However, if you feel dizzy for a long time, you should take it seriously, because long-term or frequent dizziness may be a precursor to a serious illness.