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Vertigo is one of the most common conditions for which people visit emergency centers, and repeated studies have found that doctors don\u2019t know how to treat it.<\/p>\nVertigo is one of the most common conditions for which people visit emergency centers, and repeated studies have found that doctors don\u2019t know how to treat it.<\/p>\n
But a new study just published in the Ear, Nose & Throat<\/em> journal reveals probably the easiest way to treat vertigo.<\/p>\n All you have to do is load up on one cheap, widely available vitamin.<\/p>\n A team of scientists from Mahidol University in Bangkok decided to investigate whether vitamin D deficiency is more common in vertigo sufferers than in the general population. <\/p>\n This investigation has been conducted in other countries, especially in European countries where sunshine, the biggest source of vitamin D, is often absent.<\/p>\n They recruited 137 participants from a hospital, 69 with BPPV and 68 with good balance. <\/p>\n The BPPV group was subdivided into participants who had been diagnosed only once and patients who had experienced recurrent bouts of vertigo after being successfully treated.<\/p>\n The researchers collected blood from both groups to measure their vitamin D levels.<\/p>\n They also made sure that there were no important demographic differences between the two main groups so that their findings would not be influenced by any other factors.<\/p>\n They reached two primary conclusions.<\/p>\n They defined vitamin D deficiency as a 25-OH vitamin D level below 20 ng\/mL (Nanograms per milliliter of blood). They defined vitamin D insufficiency as a level between 21 and 29 ng\/mL and vitamin D sufficiency as a level above 30 ng\/mL.<\/p>\n Luckily, there is an easy solution.<\/p>\n In a 2020 edition of Neurology<\/em>, Korean researchers showed that vitamin D and calcium supplementation twice a day could prevent this form of vertigo.<\/p>\n They analyzed 957 people with BPPV, 348 of whom had vitamin D levels below 20 ng\/mL; they were given a supplement with 400 IU (international units) of vitamin D and 500 milligrams of calcium twice a day.<\/p>\n Compared with the rest of the participants, who had not received the supplement, this group was 24% less likely to suffer a recurrence of their vertigo.<\/p>\n If you don’t want to take a supplement, simply eat enough foods that are fortified with vitamin D, and consume enough calcium-rich foods like dairy, sardines and pilchards (where you eat the bones), spinach, kale, poppy seeds, white beans, and almonds.<\/p>\n\n
\n 2. There were no differences in the vitamin D levels between the once-off and recurrent BPPV groups.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n