To prevent vestibular function disorders, attention must be paid to reducing individual risk factors.
Ménière’s disease
Behavioral risk factors
- Stimulant use
- Alcohol abuse (alcohol dependence)
- Nicotine abuse (nicotine dependence)
- Mental stress situation
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPLS)
Behavioral risk factors
- Turning the head can trigger a seizure; especially in the morning
Medications (pharmacogenic causes of vertigo)
- See under “Dizziness caused by drugs,” “Anticholinergic effects caused by drugs,” and “Ototoxic drugs.”
Environmental exposures – intoxications (poisonings).
- Drug use
- Carbon monoxide
- Carbon tetrachloride
- Mercury
