Dizziness is a particularly common symptom, with studies showing that 4% of outpatients aged 18 to 65 years complained of persistent dizziness, with 3% of them described as “severely impaired”. In addition, the incidence of dizziness increases with age, and different studies have reported that the incidence of dizziness in the elderly can reach 20% to 40%, and there are even reports of dizziness accounting for 61% of the elderly and balance disorders accounting for 77%, which is an even more alarming figure. When the feeling of spinning suddenly comes, people will feel nervous, worried and even have the fear of dying, they will choose to see what is wrong with their “head and heart”. Unbeknownst to us, a lot of vertigo is caused by ear diseases. Auntie Zhang, 55 years old, just retired, suddenly felt that time was all her own, so she arranged a lot of activities that she did not have time to do before, and the dance class every morning was one of her favorite activities, and one day she did a few beautiful turns one after another, stumbled and fell down accidentally, and bumped into it. She was still busy doing what she was doing. One day a few weeks later, when she was getting ready for bed, her head just hit the pillow and she felt the sky spinning, she thought it was an earthquake and sat up and screamed. Her family quickly ran over, and she immediately asked everyone if the earthquake had just hit. They didn’t take it seriously, just laughed at her for being paranoid about too many earthquakes lately. She also laughed and was ready to continue resting. However, when she lay down again, another spinning attack, a huge fear immediately enveloped her, followed by nausea, vomiting, panic, waxy face, this time the family no longer dare to careless, immediately called 120, straight to the hospital. Because of the severe heartburn that occurred when she became dizzy and her usual history of high blood pressure, she first went to the cardiology department, and through the examination, her blood pressure and heart were fine. She thought back to her long-term ambulatory work, the cervical spine is not very good, so she went to the orthopedic consultation, a series of examinations, there is no big problem, then went to the neurology examination, also a series of examinations, there is no big problem, the doctor said a little blood supply is not enough! So the infusion continued, but ten days passed, dizziness still appeared from time to time, through observation, she found that is in the up, lying down, as well as when the bed turned over the most serious, is it their own bed out of what problem? Another wave of fear hit her, so she went to another hospital with a thick pile of test results. When she registered, she was a bit confused as to which department to register for. In the end, she registered again with the neurologist to see if her blood supply was better. The doctor looked at her results, listened to her complaints, and suggested that she go to the ENT department. She came to the ENT department with doubts and underwent a test, and the final diagnosis was that there was a problem with a small stone inside her ear, and through treatment, she soon recovered and could attend her favorite dance class again! If she had known that, why did she delay and suffer so much for so long? Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, commonly known as “otoliths”, is the first cause of vertigo in patients over 60 years old. The disease has the following characteristics: the patient has a brief vertigo of less than one minute when he/she gets up and lies down, turns over in bed, raises his/her head down or bends over. The disease is very common, especially in elderly people around 60 years old. Are ear stones what we call “ear wax”? Without them, we would have no sense of speed, balance or space. In a normal person, the otoliths are attached to the inner ear, forming a “stone path” like structure, but if for any reason, some of the stones fall out, it can cause the disease, otolithiasis. So why do stones fall out? What is the cause of this disease? It is currently thought to be related to traumatic brain surgery, colds, and a possible lack of blood supply to the inner ear. Looking back at Ms. Zhang’s medical history, it may have been the fall she took while dancing that led to the development of otoliths. Currently the world has proposed a recognized treatment for the disease – reset therapy. Some patients can achieve immediate results with a single treatment, and most patients can also get relief or even complete relief from vertigo with repeated treatments along with certain medications. If you have such symptoms, we recommend you to come to the ENT department for examination and treatment to relieve the pain of vertigo as soon as possible!