Falls Home Remedies

If you are walking on the road or trying to get up, but stumble in the process then you had a fall. There is nothing to worry about except if it happens frequently. Then you are suffering from a serious nervous disorder called falls. A fall occurs when the vertical line that passes through the center of the mass of the human body goes beyond the support base and the correction does not occur immediately.

If you are younger old, you fall because of indulgence in those activities that involve large and rapid displacements that you were capable of once upon a time but are now beyond you. If you are older person and suffer from multiple disabilities, you fall frequently due to the sharp decline in the efficiency of balance mechanism. A lot of falls are trivial and do not injure you. 80% of the falls do not result in injury. Injury suffered due to intensity and rapidity of the fall. If you are old and injure yourself, you are likely to be moving rapidly at the time of fall.

Falls Causes

• Loss of consciousness before or after the fall. Momentary loss of consciousness may be due to epilepsy and circulatory disturbances. Temporary consciousness is due to disturbance of cerebral circulation resulting from a fall in cardiac output or an error in blood distribution.
• Initiated displacement. There are two types of displacement: normal and excessive. Normal initiated displacement consists of the daily activities like getting out of bed, rising from the chair, walking, dressing and sitting down. Excessive initiated displacement occurs when you do your daily activities in haste or without preparation or when performed without undue thought.
• Use of drugs. As you grow old, your dependence on drugs increases. You take drugs for various ailments including sedatives and tranquilisers and this affects the central conduction of the nervous system leading to instability.
• Neurological diseases like strokes, weakness of the legs and failure to raise the feet, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease affect the rhythm and regularity of stepping thus endangering stability.

Falls Treatment

Make efforts to improve the performance. Create confidence in your ability to remain upright throughout your routine activities. Go for well-fitting shoes with low-heels and improve your environment like proper floor surface and floor coverings, proper arrangement of furniture, adequate lighting and correct height of chairs and beds. This is important if you use a walking frame or hold on to the furniture while moving around the house. If you have developed the tendency to fall recently and can maintain balance, avoid using walking frame as it alters the body posture and the pattern of walking.

Go for proper training like walking with confidence and support if necessary by a hand held lightly in front of you. Your training should increase the speed of walking because walking faster within the limit will be safe for you. While climbing stairs, take the support of the railing with one hand and pay attention to placing your feet carefully and firmly on the steps. Try going from bed to chair, chair to toilet etc. If you are at a risk of falling and cannot get up without assistance, learn the proper technique of getting up, where you turn to one side and bend up one knee, then roll on to that knee and bring up the second knee as in kneeling. Then crawl or reach out to a chair near you and slowly raise yourself with its support.

Have proper nutrition, consisting of all the major vitamins and other nutrients. Take plenty of whole grains, especially whole wheat, brown rice, raw and sprouted seeds, milk in soured form and home-made cottage cheese. Your breakfast should include fresh fruits, small amount of raw nuts or two tablespoons of sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Lunch should comprise of steamed vegetables, whole wheat chappatis and a glass of buttermilk. Bowl of fresh green vegetable salad, fresh homemade cottage cheese, fresh butter and a glass of buttermilk forms your dinner.

If you have a severe problem, go on a short juice fast for 4 or 5 days before starting the diet mentioned above. Drink juices of carrot, beet, citrus fruits, apple and pineapple. Including plenty of vitamins of B group since they are very effective in prevention and curing of nervous disorders. Take liberal doses of vitamin B1, B2, B6, B12 and pantothenic acid together to prevent recurrent falls.

Avoid white bread, white sugar, refined cereals, meat, fish, tinned foods, tea, coffee and condiment because they cause the problem by continuously depositing acid impurities in the tissues. Drinking a cup of soyabean milk mixed with honey at night will help your nervous disorders. It tones up the nervous system due to high concentration of lecithin, vitamin B1 and glutanic acid.

Take 2 or 3 hot Epsom salt baths weekly. Soak yourself in the bath for 25 to 30 minutes. Go for walking and other moderate exercises.