Why does alcohol or spins make you feel dizzy?

Visiting parties might be the best for someone. In today's blog we are going to discuss things which you have been through several times but never noticed why?

That's how it looks from your side, isn't it.

Yes, dizziness. I know you have been through it several times. You may be wondering why is that so, what is the scientific reason behind it.

Reasons for dizziness: -

Dizziness could be the sign of an underlying medical condition, or it might be simple dehydration.

Here are the some major points for dizziness: -

1. Standing up too fast

 If you are dehydrated, standing up too fast could cause a blood rush away from your head, causing temporary dizziness.

2. An inner ear issue

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, usually resolves itself in a few days.

3. Low blood sugar

For most of the diabetics patients, skipped meal could drastically lowers your blood sugar. For those patients juice is a great option to stabilize these levels.

4. Your medication

Antidepressants, sleep medications, blood sugar medication, muscle relaxants and pain relievers are most common culprits.

5. Dehydration

Many people drinks small amount of water in their daily routine. Dehydration may cause in blood pressure which can lead to dizziness.

6. Iron deficiency

Anemia is the common cause for dizziness and fatigue.

7. Motion sickness

A roller coaster or a car ride mostly triggers motion sickness and temporary dizziness.

Above mentioned are the common reasons which causes dizziness, these types of dizziness are not intentional, what if you someone knew that by consuming few items cause dizziness. Will you eat or drink that?

Dizziness by consuming alcohol: -

You might be wondering why most of the people consume alcohol daily. What is the reason behind it. Is it better in taste or what? Well, it's the dizziness. Wait, what?

Why will someone force themselves to fall into dizziness? And how alcohol makes you fell dizzily?

The actual reason is why most of the people consume alcohol is to get some relief from their stressful life.

And how alcohol makes you feel dizzy?

Well, the culprit is in your ear. 

The inner ear is full of fluid that moves as you do. Didn't get it? Look at the picture shown below to understand the problem.

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Have a look at the picture shown above.

Consider that clip that is floating in the glass of water. As you start moving round and round, the clip will rotate as you move.

But after a long night of drinking, alcohol can diffuse from your blood into this fluid, like oil on water.

Alcohol is lighter than this fluid, and this confuses the little hairs and makes you feel dizzy.

Dizziness by spinning: -

You might love to dance, or spin challenge but ever wondered after so many spin you can barely stand your legs. But after stopping why you feel dizziness for quite a while?

As mentioned earlier, again its the same culprit, fluid in your ear.

When you start spinning the fluid present in your ear also starts spinning. What's the scientific reason?

Since your brain thinks you're moving it sends this information to your eye as well. That's why it "looks" and "feels" like you are moving. Even though you knew you're just standing, it feels your head is spinning called dizziness.

In short after we stop spinning, the fluid is spinning. You know that you have stopped, but the brain doesn't.