Why should I go to ENT for vertigo?

  Vertigo is a kinetic or positional illusion due to the body’s impaired spatial orientation and is only a symptom, like a cough or headache, and is not a disease in itself; rather, some other disease is the cause, involving multiple disciplines. The vast majority of people experience this disorder throughout their lives. More than 60% of vertigo patients have lesions in the inner ear, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (otolithiasis) and Meniere’s disease, so otolaryngology is the first choice for hospital visits.  Because the inner ear includes the vestibule and the cochlea: the vestibule, which is in charge of balance (semicircular canal, ellipsoidal bursa, balloon, vestibular nerve) and the cochlea, which is in charge of hearing, are adjacent to each other, vertigo is often complicated by symptoms of deafness and tinnitus, and the two conditions affect each other.