Most people have experienced dizziness at least once in their lives. The sudden feeling of dizziness makes us feel dizzy, lightheaded, scared and want to fall, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, fatigue. Most acute dizziness has a peripheral cause. How to treat acute dizziness depends on the related pathology.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is diagnosed based on a physician's assessment and confirmed by laboratory tests. It may resolve spontaneously within weeks to months or be treated with canalith repositioning and surgery.