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There are two types of vertigoperipheral and central. Peripheral vertigo is caused by an imbalance in the inner ear. Central vertigo happens due to disease or an injury to the brain.
On 3 October, Sankalp Saxena, 31, was out shopping with his family in Jaipur when he felt his head spinning. He felt nauseous and was sweating profusely. It was so severe that he could not walk without support. He returned home, hoping rest would cure it. But it worsened. The next day he was admitted to a hospital, where he underwent a battery of tests. Everything was okay. Then, a neurosurgeon advised an MRI. When that turned out to be clear, he was referred to an ENT specialist who diagnosed vestibular neuritis, a type of vertigo that is caused by a virus infection. Saxena was prescribed medicines and asked to do some specialized exercises at home. He is fine now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Till then, Saxena hadn\u2019t heard of vertigo, though it\u2019s quite common. If you\u2019re suffering from this imbalance disorder, you essentially feel a sense of rotation, rocking, or the world spinning, even if you\u2019re not moving, and it\u2019s often associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, a ringing sensation in the ear, difficulty in hearing and loss of coordination during walking. \u201cThe frequency of episodes may be once in few weeks to multiple times a day, depending on the underlining cause. The feeling lasts a short time but can be severe, and the symptoms usually last from a few minutes to hours,\u201d says Rahul Gupta, senior consultant, neurosurgery, at the Fortis Hospital in Noida, near Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A report published in 2009 in the Seminars In Neurology journal says vertigo affects about 5% of the population across all age groups in any given year. Its prevalence increases with age and it\u2019s about two-three times more common in women. It can happen to anyone and can start at any time. \u201cThis would translate to 60 million people in India. But the problem is that most patients do not know which doctor to visit, oscillating between ENT specialists, neurologists, orthopaedics, physicians. Also, most patients believe that vertigo does not have a cure and they have to live with it. Changing this mindset and educating patients that vertigo is curable is the biggest challenge,\u201d says Anita Bhandari, consultant neurotologist at the Vertigo and Ear Clinic, Jaipur, and co-founder of NeuroEquilibrium Diagnostics Systems, which develops diagnostic systems for vertigo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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