Vertigo causes

VERTIGO causes:

-motion sickness, altitude sickness.

Peripheral VIII CN

* Meniere's dz, BPPV, vestibular neuronitis, acoustic neuroma, ototoxic drugs.

-cholesteatoma, middle ear trauma

-otitis media, otosclerosis, impacted cerumen,

*Head injury

- perilymphatic fistual s/p head inj.

Central Causes (Brainstem or Cerebellum)

- cerebellar tumors

- MS

* Vertebrobasilar insufficiency

- Infection: brain abscess, meningoencephalitis, Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, temporal-lobe epilepsy, cervical spondylitis,

- cardiac arrhythmias

- Guanethedine, dilantin, neomycin, furosemide, salicylates, quinine, aminoglycosides, vancomycin, minocycline.