Causes of dizziness in children and adolescents

Dizziness with vertigo*	Dizziness without vertigo (pseudovertigo)
Life-threatening
CNS infection^¶ Head trauma Poisoning or adverse medication effect Stroke Brain tumor	Arrhythmia Heat stroke Hypoglycemia Poisoning or adverse medication effect
Common
Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood Labyrinthitis (vestibular neuritis) Migraine Motion sickness Otitis media complicated by labyrinthitis	Anemia Anxiety Ataxia Depression Hyperventilation Orthostatic hypotension Pregnancy Presyncope
Other
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Cholesteatoma Congenital defects^Δ Mastoiditis Meniere disease Middle ear trauma Multiple sclerosis Perilymph fistula Ramsay Hunt syndrome Seizure	Somatic symptom disorder

CNS: central nervous system.
* True vertigo refers to dizziness with a sense of spinning.
¶ Meningitis, encephalitis, or intracranial abscess.
Δ Eg, Mondini dysplasia, Usher syndrome, Joubert syndrome, Schiebe deformity, enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome.

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Causes of dizziness in children and adolescents