What is vertigo?

Vertigo is a feeling rather than a condition in which a person feels that his or her surrounding is spinning or moving around him or her. It is a feeling of dizziness that occurs with no accompanying movement.

What are the symptoms of vertigo?

If you have a vertigo attack, then you have the following symptoms:

• Feeling of spinning
• Loss of balance
• Lightheadedness
• Vomiting
• Feeling of Floating
• A feeling of floor tilting
• Nausea 
• Dizziness 
• Headaches
• Hearing loss

What causes vertigo?

• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV): caused by an issue with the inner ear.
• Ménière's disease: is an inner-ear condition caused by severe and incapacitating episodes of vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and ear fullness.
• Labyrinth: an inner ear infection that causes hearing loss
• Brain problems: strokes or tumors
• Brain injury
• Head or neck injury
• Multiple Sclerosis: tissue stiffening caused by fibrous tissue overgrowth or an increase in interstitial tissue (surrounds the secretory ducts and glands).
• Migraines - severe headaches
• Certain medications that cause ear damage