The human body is a funny thing; it is extremely advanced and unfortunately there are endless amounts of things that can affect its brilliant way of working. When we were children it was fun to spin yourself around and around, roll on the floor down hills, and generally make ourselves have and get a dizzy feeling. As children’s this is fun but as an adult living with a constant reoccurrence of dizziness becomes hard and very frustrating not to mention concerning. There is a long list as to what can cause and initiate dizziness.

However dizziness can be confused with suffering from vertigo, faintness, light headed or just generally feeling week. The causes of dizziness could be things like low blood pressure, miss use of alcohol, tiredness, confusion, high blood pressure, depression, anaemia, medications that you are taking, panic attacks, anxiety, infections, trauma to the head, disease and even sometime the effects of running can cause it. If a person encounters dizziness they may experience symptoms such as general weakness, confusion, spinning, rocking, the room moving amongst others. In some cases dizziness may be a cause for concern and in the most extreme cases medical attention must be sought immediately. It could be the sign of a life threatening illness. Vertigo is one of the main causes of dizziness, and if you are suffering from other symptoms such as headaches, visual loss then you may need to make an appointment to see your doctor. To confirm the diagnosis of the condition and what is underlying, a medical practitioner will carry out a number of tests. These may include and ECG, a CT scan, verbal questions and physical tasks.

However typically this may go away in time but it is important to make sure that there is nothing else going on. There are more serious illness such as heart problems, which may leave someone feeling light headed so although it may go away it is better to be safe than sorry. There is however a number of ways which you can help improve your balance and therefore reduce the feeling of dizziness by lining up your eye with an object and watch which way you are moving as your eye send back messages to your brain. Others consist of your nerves and inner ear, all factors which help to keep balance as they feed back your movements to your brain. Therefore if you have fluid in your ears this may give you a feeling of unsteadiness.

Dizziness is not a critical illness however symptoms may lead to more serious illnesses and therefore some protection insurance such as Critical Illness Cover may cover you for such illnesses for example a heart attack or stroke but you would typically suffer from more severe symptoms such as loss of speech which would then need urgent medical attention. If you become light headed try and avoid sudden movements, and make sure you drink plenty of fluids. Or if you have a cold make sure you do not over do it as the again the ears may hold more fluid and therefore leave you feeling unbalanced again.