The word vertigo originates from the Latin "Vertiginis" which means "Circular Movement" and from "Vertigo" which means "Stun or Dizziness". It is considered an illusory disorder where people have the sensation that their head is turning or the objects around them are moving. It is a hallucination in which the individual feels that they lose their balance and become stunned by not presenting full stability, they may experience a delusion in which the outside world or the things around you move or rotate around them, in these occasions it is said that one suffers from objective vertigo, and in other cases in which it is felt that it is the body itself that is staggering because it perceives a rotating movement of the body which is called subjective vertigo.
It is also known as lightheadedness, it is a disturbance of the senses of sight, hearing and touch, which occurs suddenly but is temporary, that is, this hallucination does not last long, vertigo generally brings with it physical exposures such as dizziness and in turn sweating, nausea or vomiting. In most cases they are caused by height, acceleration, fainting, among others, and it is generally a symptom of alteration of the sensory organs of the inner ear, which can be caused by inflammation, infections, trauma, tumors, among others.
When we are facing a pathology in which the sense of hearing is compromised, such as a disease related to the brain, a lack of control of the body is caused more consistently, it is not only vertigo that can produce instability of the body, but also the staggering and movement of the fluids within the body, triggering symptoms such as dizziness, fainting, fainting, precipitation, outburst, vomiting, among others.
We commonly associate the feeling of vertigo with heights, this is because the feeling of emptiness under our feet when we are, for example, on the edge of a roof produces the idea that we can fall, the same happens with high speeds and sudden movements like those produced by a roller coaster.
