Labyrinthitis — an inner ear infection that affects your hearing and balance, and can lead to a severe form of dizziness called vertigo.
Migraine — dizziness may come on before or after the headache, or even without the headache. Stress or anxiety — particularly if you tend to hyperventilate breathe abnormally quickly when resting.
Low blood sugar level hypoglycaemia — which is usually seen in people with diabetes. Postural hypotension — a sudden fall in blood pressure when you suddenly sit or stand up, which goes away after lying down.
This is more common in older people. Dehydration or heat exhaustion — dehydration could be due to not drinking enough during exercise, or illness that causes vomiting, diarrhoea or fever. Vertebrobasilar insufficiency — decreased blood flow in the back of the brain, which may be caused by the blood vessels that lead to the brain from the heart being blocked known as atherosclerosis.
Less common causes of dizziness Less common causes of dizziness include: having a severe illness or condition that affects the whole body using recreational drugs or consuming excessive amounts of alcohol either binge drinking or long-term alcohol misuse certain types of prescription medicine — such as antidepressants or blood pressure medication having a heart rhythm problem — such as atrial fibrillation a fast, irregular heartbeat carbon monoxide poisoning.
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The State of Victoria and the Department of Health shall not bear any liability for reliance by any user on the materials contained on this website. Skip to main content. Ear nose and throat. Home Ear nose and throat. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo BPPV. Actions for this page Listen Print. Summary Read the full fact sheet. On this page. You get out of bed and, for a short while, it feels as if the whole room is spinning — day after day.
Positional vertigo occurs when small crystals of calcium carbonate are floating in the fluid-filled semicircular canals. The canals are small tubes in the inner ears that send messages about movement to the brain and help us keep our balance. Mann said. The crystals can form in the semicircular canals or enter from another part of the ear, breaking free because of trauma, age or disease.
Positional vertigo differs from other types of vertigo in that episodes last a minute or less and are brought on by changes in position. To make a diagnosis, one has to decide which of the semicircular canals has those crystals causing the problem. We learn that by observing the eye movement during the physical examination. The technique was developed by Dr. John Epley in and treats the most common form of positional vertigo, in the posterior semicircular canal.
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