Dizziness
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Common causes
of dizziness include:
Acute hyperventilation
Alcohol use
Anemia
Anxiety
Dehydration
Drug side effect
Emotional stress
Emphysema
Food allergy
High blood pressure
Hypoglycemia
Influenza
Labyrinthitis
Low blood pressure
Medication side effect
Motion sickness
Otitis media
Postural hypotension
Sinusitis
Upper respiratory infections
Vasovagal syncope
Vertigo
Vestibular neuronitis
Less common
causes of dizziness include:
Acoustic neuroma
Acromegaly
Addison's disease
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cerebellar hemorrhage
Cerebral hemorrhage
Cervical spondylosis
Congestive heart failure
Cyanide poisoning
Decompression illness
Digoxin toxicity
Dilantin
toxicity
Head injury
Heart attack
Herpes zoster
High altitude cerebral edema
High altitude pulmonary edema
Lithium
toxicity
Meniere's disease
Migraine headache
Multiple sclerosis
Otosclerosis
Parkinson's disease
Polycythemia vera
Post
concussion
syndrome
Preeclampsia
Seizure
Shy-Drager syndrome
Stroke
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Temporal lobe seizure
Theophylline toxicity
Thiamine deficiency
TIA
Vasovagal syncope
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Related Topics:
Acoustic neuroma
Drug side effect
Fainting
Labyrinthitis
Meniere's disease
Motion sickness
Orthostatic hypotension
Vertigo
Vestibular neuronitis
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Last Updated: Oct 31, 2008
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Lawson J, Johnson I, Bamiou DE, Newton JL. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: clinical characteristics of dizzy patients referred to a Falls and Syncope Unit. QJM. 2005 May;98(5):357-64.
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Whitney SL, Marchetti GF, Morris LO. Usefulness of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory in the Screening for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. Otol Neurotol. 2005 Sep;26(5):1027-1033.
