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  2. Vertigo - Wikipedia

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    Vertigo. Vertigo is a condition in which a person has the sensation that they are moving, or that objects around them are moving, when they are not. [ 1] Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. [ 1][ 2] It may be associated with nausea, vomiting, perspiration, or difficulties walking. [ 2] It is typically worse when the head is ...

  3. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo - Wikipedia

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    Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo ( BPPV) is a disorder arising from a problem in the inner ear. [ 3] Symptoms are repeated, brief periods of vertigo with movement, characterized by a spinning sensation upon changes in the position of the head. [ 1] This can occur with turning in bed or changing position. [ 3]

  4. Dizziness - Wikipedia

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    Dizziness is an imprecise term that can refer to a sense of disorientation in space, vertigo, or lightheadedness. [ 1] It can also refer to disequilibrium [ 2] or a non-specific feeling, such as giddiness or foolishness. [ 3] Dizziness is a common medical complaint, affecting 20–30% of persons. [ 4] Dizziness is broken down into four main ...

  5. Dizziness vs. vertigo: What the difference is and why it matters

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    Dr. Bhattacharyya explains that vertigo is a subtype of dizziness. With vertigo, a patient feels like the room is spinning in a circle around them. Or they feel like they’re spinning when they ...

  6. Motion sickness - Wikipedia

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    Motion sickness occurs due to a difference between actual and expected motion. [ 1][ 2][ 4] Symptoms commonly include nausea, vomiting, cold sweat, headache, dizziness, tiredness, loss of appetite, and increased salivation. [ 1][ 5] Complications may rarely include dehydration, electrolyte problems, or a lower esophageal tear.

  7. Labyrinthitis - Wikipedia

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    Labyrinthitis. Labyrinthitis is inflammation of the labyrinth, a maze of fluid-filled channels in the inner ear. Vestibular neuritis is inflammation of the vestibular nerve (the nerve in the ear that sends messages related to motion and position to the brain). [ 2][ 3][ 4] Both conditions involve inflammation of the inner ear. [ 5]

  8. Migraine-associated vertigo - Wikipedia

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    Vertigo is a medically recognized term for the symptom of a vestibular system disturbance. It may include a feeling of rotation or illusory sensations of motion or both. The general term dizziness is used by nonmedical people for those symptoms but often refers to a feeling of light-headedness, giddiness, drowsiness, or faintness, all of which must be differentiated from true vertigo, [3 ...

  9. Dehydration - Wikipedia

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    Physical water scarcity, heatwaves, disease (most commonly from diseases that cause vomiting and/or diarrhea ), exercise. Treatment. Drinking clean water. Medication. Saline. In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water, [ 3] with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes.