Hidden Allergies May Be the Culprit in Your Sinusitis Dizziness Problem

Does sinusitis dizziness really exist?

Are the dizziness and sinus problems both just symptoms of the actual underlying cause?

Detecting the underlying cause of dizziness can perplex physician and patient alike. Often medications treat symptoms, but not the underlying cause of the sinus problems. A little detective work may reveal the cause so you can deal with it.

That culprit might just be hidden allergens that float around in the air.

Sinusitis brought on by spring or fall allergy symptoms like increased nasal mucous and itchy eyes are easily recognized. But airborne allergens that hang around all year cause such chronic sinusitis symptoms that it's hard to pin point them as the culprit without doing a lot of detective work.

The year round allergens include dust (which are actually mites that live in our skin), animal dander (especially if you have indoor animals) and some molds (like ones living in the dirt of your house plants).

When assaulted by the air-born allergens, your sinuses go to work trying to filter them out which leads to allergic reactions in your sinus tissues accompanied by pain and pressure.

The same scenario may take place in your inner ear as well where the swelling results in the type of dizziness called vertigo where you feel like either you or the room is spinning. That can results in the sinusitis dizziness allergy connection.

If the allergic reaction occurs in your middle ear, you may feel more of the light headed or faintness type of symptoms associated with the term dizziness.

Whatever your symptoms, mainly what you want is relief.

You can institute some helpful measures on your own.

1. Purify your indoor air

Install an especially efficient air filter in your central air conditioning unit.
At the minimum place a room purifier in your bedroom and run it while you sleep.

2. Move your pets outdoors and clean up your house really well.

As a pet lover myself I realize banning them from the house can be heart wrenching. So at least keep your bedroom as a pet free area so you're not inhaling animal dander all night.

3. If dust allergies are the culprit:

Keep the house cleaned regularly.
Use vacuum cleaners with really good filters.
Put dust proof covers on your pillows and mattress.

An allergist can then advise you on the environmental cleanup required. This doctor may order blood tests for allergies that may be very helpful. Once you know what you're allergic to, then you can work more diligently to decrease that allergen in your environment.

However, total avoidance of an airborne allergen is quite difficult. Therefore, allergy skin testing and allergy shots to desensitize you to the offending substance can give you more long lasting and satisfying relief.

Alternative health practitioners also utilize other allergy desensitizing measures that are very effective. Consider looking for one in your area. Chiropractors, naturopaths and some physicians use these effective alternative techniques.

Once those hidden allergens are revealed you're on the way to losing that sinusitis dizziness allergy connection.

Food Allergies in Adulthood

The process of ecological illness, leading to multiple allergies. It has become evident that many people in the Western World are developing chronic illness as a result of too many years on the over-refined Western diet. It appears that, although people who were fed wrongly during infancy are particularly prone to developing this problem, most people, in fact, will develop some form of ecologically-caused food intolerances during the course of their lives. The fact that this problem has not emerged en masse sooner, in our society, is probably because it is only during the past thirty years that manufactured and artificially processed foods have become the bulk of our daily diet.

The process of ecological illness can span years, even decades. That incredible mechanism, the body, can put up a very good fight for a very long time. The individual, being a fighter, keeps plugging along, coping with repetitive ailments, little realizing that he is inexorably developing a condition that will ultimately wreck his health. These days, once a person moves past thirty-five, it seems that a range of repetitive ailments, from backache to indigestion, have to be accepted as part of the ageing process. The fact that the body is becoming increasingly overloaded and is giving out warning signs, does not often appear to be recognized nor understood. These warnings are often the first signs of a weakening immune system, which if unheeded, will lead to complex food and chemical allergies, causing a further breakdown in health.

Dr Allen G. Grant of Charing Cross Hospital, London, reported, in the Lancet, on the study of sixty migraine patients. It was found that 78 per cent were allergic to wheat, 65 per cent to oranges, 40 per cent to tea and coffee, 45 per cent to eggs, 37 per cent to chocolate and milk, 35 per cent to beef, and 33 per cent to corn, cane sugar and yeast. Dr Grant found that, if these foods were eliminated from their diet, 85 per cent became free of headaches and the rest showed significant improvement. This work was supported by research at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, in London, where it was found that at least two thirds of severe migraine sufferers were allergic to certain foods. When these foods were removed from the diet, the headaches stopped.

Many elderly people, nowadays, are showing signs of ecological illness because their immune systems are less robust than a younger person's and the effects of the past thirty years have hit them first. They are told by their doctors that they must accept their recurring symptoms and their chronic fatigue, simply because they are getting old. They are not advised to examine their diet or eating habits and, accordingly, their later years are unnecessarily burdened with ill health. It has been shown overseas that a clean diet, free from processed and allergenic foods, can rebuild the immune system and, within a dramatically short time, restore elderly people to robust good health. Nathan Pritikin's now famous Longevity Centre, at Santa Monica, California, has been enormously successful in this field.

As time goes on, many younger people are beginning to show signs of the ecological allergy syndrome. Doctors' waiting rooms are evidencing increasing numbers of young people in their twenties and even younger, with recurring symptoms and health problems. Why is the percentage of young patients higher than, say twenty years ago? It seems that a growing intolerance to our artificial Western diet is the answer.