What causes dizziness and nausea? How can these symptoms be treated? Get the answers to these questions and more in our informative article.

Migraine Headaches: A Neurological Cause of Dizziness and Nausea

Migraine headaches are a neurological condition that can cause a range of symptoms, including vision problems, dizziness, unusual sensations, and vomiting, with or without head pain. Some people also notice dizziness and nausea with other types of headaches, especially if the pain is very intense. Migraines can develop in response to specific triggers, such as stress or caffeine, and can cause chronic pain for some individuals.

Drugs and Alcohol: The Impact on Dizziness and Nausea

Consuming drugs or alcohol can lead to dizziness and nausea as the body works to rid itself of toxins. Additionally, some prescription medications, such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, anti-seizure medications, blood pressure medications, and antipsychotics, can also cause these symptoms, especially when they affect brain function. Individuals who notice these side effects after starting a new drug should consult with their healthcare provider.

Motion Sickness: When the Body Perceives Unusual Motion

Motion sickness can occur when the body perceives unusual motion, such as when a person is in a moving vehicle like a car, boat, or plane. This can cause nausea, headaches, and dizziness, as well as other symptoms like yawning, drowsiness, or sweating. Motion sickness can also occur when a person is not actually in motion, but something has triggered the sensation, such as watching someone else move, a video game, or a video with movement.

Stomach Illnesses: Nausea, Vomiting, and Dizziness

Stomach viruses or bacterial infections can cause nausea and vomiting, and some people may also experience dizziness, often due to dehydration. Norovirus is a highly contagious infection that can cause these symptoms, which can last for a day or longer. Bacterial infections, such as those caused by Salmonella or Escherichia coli, can also lead to stomach illnesses and dizziness. While most such infections clear on their own, they can cause dangerous dehydration in certain individuals.

Other Infections: The Link to Nausea and Dizziness

Numerous other infections, ranging from mild to life-threatening, may cause nausea and dizziness, often accompanied by a fever. These include herpes zoster oticus (a rare variant of herpes that infects the ear), ear infections (especially of the inner ear), and eye infections that affect vision. If left untreated, these infections can spread to other areas of the body, leading to a condition called sepsis, which can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical treatment.

Dehydration: The Impact on Dizziness

Dehydration can make a person feel dizzy, and this is relatively common after an episode of vomiting, as the body has lost fluids. Drinking plenty of fluids may help ease the dizziness, but those who cannot keep anything down should seek medical attention.

Anxiety: The Physical Symptoms of Psychological Distress

Anxiety can cause physical symptoms, including dizziness and nausea. These symptoms may worsen if the dizziness and nausea cause even more worry and anxiety. Anxiety is the most likely cause of dizziness and nausea if a person’s symptoms worsen when they feel stressed or overwhelmed or after a panic attack.

Pregnancy and Dizziness: Understanding Morning Sickness

Morning sickness is one of the most common early pregnancy symptoms and can cause nausea and sometimes dizziness and vomiting. While morning sickness can be unpleasant, it is not dangerous unless a person cannot keep down food and becomes dehydrated. Those who feel dizzy and cannot stop vomiting should see a doctor immediately.

Vertigo: A Condition Causing Dizziness and Nausea

Vertigo is not a single diagnosis but rather a group of symptoms that cause dizziness and sometimes nausea or spinning sensations. One of the most common types of vertigo is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, which happens when tiny crystals in the inner ear move, making it difficult for the brain to assess movement. A doctor can diagnose and treat this condition, as well as other types of vertigo.

Brain Injuries and Tumors: The Most Serious Potential Causes

Brain injuries, such as strokes, are the most serious potential cause of nausea and dizziness, though they are also the least common. A stroke occurs when a blockage in a blood vessel or a bleeding vessel disrupts blood flow to the brain, which can lead to these symptoms. Brain tumors can also cause nausea and dizziness, and these conditions require immediate medical attention.

Feeling nauseous and dizzy: Symptoms and treatments

Many different factors or conditions may cause nausea and dizziness.

Headaches

Not all headaches cause head pain alone. With some types of headaches, nausea and dizziness might be the most noticeable symptoms.

Migraine headaches are neurological headaches that can cause vision problems, dizziness, unusual sensations, and vomiting, with or without head pain.

Some people also notice dizziness and nausea with other types of headaches, especially if the pain is very intense.

Many people who have a migraine headache also experience chronic pain. Some migraines develop in response to specific triggers, such as stress or caffeine.

Drugs and alcohol

Getting drunk or high can cause dizziness or nausea. As the body works to get rid of toxins, such as alcohol, a person may vomit.

Some prescription medications may also cause dizziness and vomiting, especially when they affect brain functioning.

People who notice these symptoms after starting a new drug should tell a doctor. Some of the most common drugs that may cause dizziness and nausea include:

• antidepressants
• antianxiety drugs
• anti-seizure drugs
• blood pressure medication
• antipsychotic drugs
• some antibiotics

Motion sickness

Motion sickness can happen when the body perceives unusual motion. This may occur when a person is not moving but is more likely when a person is in a moving vehicle, such as a car, boat, or plane.

Motion sickness can cause nausea, headaches, and dizziness. Some people experience other symptoms, such as yawning, drowsiness, or sweating.

It usually gets better once a person gets out of a moving vehicle.

When a person who is not in a moving vehicle experiences motion sickness, something has usually triggered the sensation, such as watching someone else move, a video game, or a video with movement.

Motion sickness is not dangerous.

Stomach illnesses

A stomach virus or bacterial infection can cause nausea and vomiting. Some people with a stomach infection also feel dizzy or become dizzy because of dehydration.

One of the most common causes of stomach illnesses is norovirus. This highly contagious infection causes vomiting and nausea that can last for a day or longer. Some people also get a fever, headache, or muscle pain.

Bacterial infections, often from food, may also cause stomach illnesses.

Salmonella and Escherichia coli bacteria are two of the most common causes.

While most such infections clear on their own, these illnesses can cause dangerous dehydration in young children, the elderly, and people with underlying medical conditions.

Other infections

Numerous other infections, ranging from mild to life-threatening, may cause nausea and dizziness.

In most cases, a person will also get a fever. Some infections that might cause nausea and dizziness include:

• herpes zoster oticus, a rare variant of herpes that infects the ear
• any ear infection, especially of the inner ear
• infections of the eye that affect vision, since this may cause a person to feel dizzy

Any untreated infection can spread to other areas of the body, causing a condition called sepsis. Sepsis may cause dizziness and nausea, but it is a life threatening condition, and people need immediate medical treatment.

Dehydration

Sometimes dehydration can make a person feel dizzy.

Dehydration is relatively common after an episode of vomiting, so people who are dehydrated may already feel nauseated.

Drinking plenty of fluids may ease the dizziness. People who cannot keep anything down should see a doctor.

Anxiety

Anxiety is more than just a psychological sensation. It can also cause physical symptoms.

Some people experience dizziness and nausea as a result of anxiety. People’s symptoms may worsen if the dizziness and nausea cause even more worry and anxiety.

Anxiety is the most likely cause of dizziness and nausea if a person’s symptoms worsen when they feel stressed or overwhelmed or after a panic attack.

Pregnancy

Morning sickness is one of the most common early pregnancy symptoms.

It can cause nausea and sometimes dizziness and vomiting.

Morning sickness can be very unpleasant but is not dangerous unless a person cannot keep down food and becomes dehydrated.

People who feel dizzy and who cannot stop vomiting should see a doctor immediately.

Vertigo

Vertigo is not a single diagnosis but rather a group of symptoms that cause dizziness and sometimes nausea or spinning sensations.

One of the most common types of vertigo is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. This happens when tiny crystals in the inner ear move, making it difficult for the brain to assess movement.

A doctor can treat this condition, as well as other types of vertigo.

Brain injuries and tumors

Brain injuries are the most serious potential cause of nausea and dizziness but also the least common.

A stroke happens when a blockage in a blood vessel or a bleeding vessel disrupts blood flow to the brain.

It is more common with people who have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including people over 50, those with high blood pressure, and people who lead a sedentary lifestyle. However, anyone can have a stroke.

Symptoms of a stroke include numbness or tingling on one side of the body, a drooping face, confusion, and muscle weakness on one side of the body. Nausea and dizziness are not typically the only symptoms.

Very rarely, a brain tumor might cause nausea or dizziness. It almost always causes other symptoms, such as headaches, balance issues, vision problems, and personality changes.

Nausea and vomiting with no other symptoms usually go away on their own.

A person should see a doctor if they:

• have symptoms for more than a few days
• are pregnant and become dehydrated or cannot keep food down
• have other symptoms, such as changes in personality or trouble walking
• develop nausea or dizziness after starting a new medication
• have frequent migraine headaches or other headaches that disrupt daily functioning
• experience chronic anxiety

A person should go to the emergency room if they:

• have trouble moving, pain or numbness on one side of the body, or other symptoms of a stroke
• lose consciousness or seem very confused

It is not always possible to prevent nausea and dizziness. Here are some strategies that can reduce the risk:

• washing hands frequently, especially when in close contact with others or after being around someone who is sick
• keeping children home from school when they are sick
• avoiding working or going out in public when sick
• drinking plenty of water to stay hydrated
• seeking medical care for any unexplained symptoms

Nausea and dizziness can be very unpleasant and could indicate something more serious. It could also trigger anxiety.

When a person is unsure why they have these symptoms or the symptoms get progressively worse, a person should see a doctor who can diagnose the problem.

I’m Dizzy. What Should I Do?

Written by WebMD Editorial Contributors

• Tips for Handling a Dizzy Spell
• When Should I Call a Doctor?
• Causes of Dizziness 
• Dizziness and Nausea
• Who Is More Likely To Get Dizzy?
• Complications
• More

Dizziness is a common problem and usually isn’t serious.  

During a spell of dizziness, you may feel as though you’re spinning or moving when you’re not (that’s called vertigo). You may also feel:

• Lightheaded or faint
• Unsteady on your feet
• Woozy, as though your head is heavy or floating

Dizzy spells are different from the sudden start of dizziness, which could be a sign of stroke. Go to the ER right away. 

If you feel dizzy, sit or lie down at once. This will lower your chance of falling down. If you have vertigo, it may help to lie down in a dark, quiet place with your eyes closed.

Drinking water may also give you fast relief, especially if you’re dizzy because you’re dehydrated.

If you’ve had a series of dizzy spells, there are things you can do to make yourself safer. Here are some of them:

• Remove tripping hazards in your home, such as rugs on the floor, so that you’re less likely to fall.
• Avoid alcohol, caffeine and tobacco, which can make symptoms worse.
• Drink enough fluids and get plenty of sleep.
• Be aware of things that trigger your dizziness, such as lights, noise, and fast movement, and try to be around them less or move more slowly.

If you’ve had many bouts of dizziness or spells that last a long time, make an appointment with your doctor.

You should seek help right away if you’re dizzy and also have:

• Chest pain or shortness of breath
• A severe headache
• A sudden change in your vision or hearing, or trouble speaking
• Numbness or weakness
• A head injury
• A high fever
• Stiffness in your neck

Keeping you upright and balanced is not an easy job for the brain. It needs input from several systems to do that.

Your doctor may ask you some questions to help narrow down the cause of your problem: What were you doing before your dizziness? What did you feel like during your spell? How long did it last?

Your dizziness might be the result of a circulatory problem. These can include:

• A sudden drop in blood pressure. This can happen after you sit up or stand too quickly. You might hear your doctor or nurse call this “orthostatic hypotension.”
• Poor blood circulation. This could be the result of an irregular heartbeat or a heart attack. It could also be a brief disruption of the blood flow to your brain; that’s called a “transient ischemic attack,” or stroke.

Issues with your inner ear can also cause dizziness. Among them are:

• Meniere’s syndrome. This usually affects only one ear. Symptoms other than dizziness may include ringing in your ear, muffled hearing, nausea, or vomiting.
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. This is a spinning sensation brought on by moving your head.
• Ear infection. That can cause dizziness. Also, you could have something trapped in your ear canal.

Some other causes of dizziness include:

• Medicines, such as antidepressants, anti-seizure drugs, tranquilizers, and sedatives. If you take medication for high blood pressure, it might lower your blood pressure too much, leaving you feeling faint.
• Anxiety disorders. These include panic attacks.
• Low iron levels in your blood. This is also called anemia. Other signs that you are anemic include fatigue, pale skin, and weakness.
• Low blood sugar. This is also called hypoglycemia. This may be a problem if you are diabetic and use insulin. Other symptoms include sweating and anxiety.

If you get nausea along with it, it could be due to problems like vertigo, migraine, or low blood pressure.

Usually, dizziness with nausea isn’t serious. But if you have these symptoms and you don’t know what caused them, or they happen often, tell your doctor.

Vertigo. It’s the feeling that you’re spinning or moving when you’re still. A problem with the part of your inner ear that keeps your body balanced causes this symptom.

If you have vertigo, you might also have trouble keeping your balance and throw up. Vertigo sometimes goes away on its own. If not, your doctor will treat the cause of the problem. Some medicines can ease your dizziness. So can an exercise called the Epley maneuver, which involves moving your head into a different position.

If your dizziness is severe, call your doctor. You should also see them if you:

• Have an intense headache, chest pain, trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, or double vision
• Lose feeling in your arms or legs
• Get confused
• Have trouble walking
• Can’t stop throwing up
• Have seizures
• Have a fever

Alcohol Use. Drinking too much can lead to a bad case of the spins. The reason you feel dizzy is that alcohol thins your blood, which changes the balance of fluid in your inner ear. And the dizziness can make you feel nauseated. The alcohol can also irritate your stomach, which adds to the nausea.

If you’ve had too much to drink, you might also have:

• Slurred speech
• A red face
• Double vision
• Sleepiness
• Slowed reflexes

To avoid these problems, limit how much alcohol you drink. If you want to stop drinking but can’t, get help from your doctor or a program like Alcoholics Anonymous.

Get medical help right away if you (or someone you’re with) have symptoms like these after drinking alcohol:

• Trouble staying awake
• Slow breathing
• Cold, clammy, pale skin
• Confusion
• Seizures
• Throwing up over and over again

Motion Sickness. This is dizziness and nausea when you ride in a car, train, airplane, boat, or amusement park ride. Some people get it just from watching TV or a movie. The feeling happens when there is a conflict between what you see and how your body senses movement.

Motion sickness can cause:

• Throwing up
• Pale skin
• Sweating
• Headache
• Crankiness

To prevent motion sickness, ask your doctor to suggest medicines that you can take before you travel by plane, car, or boat. Don’t eat a big meal before you go, and drink lots of water along the way. Sit next to a window and look out into the distance.

Pregnancy. Morning sickness and dizziness are common early signs of pregnancy. Both symptoms are likely due to hormone changes.

Other signs that you’re pregnant are:

• Missed periods
• Tiredness
• Sore and swollen breasts
• Peeing more often than usual
• Food cravings
• Headaches

Call your doctor if you get these signs of severe nausea (hyperemesis gravidarum):

• Throwing up more than three or four times a day, or you can’t keep any food down
• Having a dry mouth and you don’t pee much
• Losing more than 5 pounds
• Belly or pelvic pain and cramping
• A fever

Throwing up too much can dehydrate you. You may need to get fluids through an IV in a hospital.

Anxiety Attack. This can happen when you’re faced with extreme stress and your body goes into fight-or-flight mode. The cause is emotional, but the symptoms are physical.

Along with dizziness and nausea, a panic attack can cause you to have:

• A fast heartbeat
• Shortness of breath
• Shaking
• Tightness in your chest
• Feeling hot or cold
• Sweating

Your panic attack should stop on its own. If you get them often, talk therapy and medication may help. An anxiety attack can feel like a heart attack. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.

Call your doctor or 911 if you:

• Suddenly feel anxious for no reason
• Still have symptoms after a few minutes
• Also have chest pain or can’t catch your breath

Low Blood Sugar. Sugar (glucose) is your body’s main source of fuel. When your blood sugar dips too low, you feel shaky, dizzy, and nauseated. Low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, is common in people who take medicine for diabetes.

Other symptoms of low blood sugar are:

• Sweating
• Shaking
• Pale skin
• A headache
• Crankiness or confusion

Eat fast-acting carbs like these to raise your blood sugar:

• Fruit juice
• Soda
• Honey
• Hard candy, such as suckers or jelly beans

Once your blood sugar comes back up, eat a snack or a meal to keep it stable.

Call your doctor or 911 if your blood sugar doesn’t go up after you eat something sweet.

Migraine. This type of headache causes severe and throbbing pain, often on one side of your head. You may feel dizzy or nauseated when you get one of these headaches.

Other symptoms you might have with a migraine are:

• Spots or flashes of light called aura
• Feeling sensitive to light, sound, and smells
• Blurred vision

Your doctor can suggest medicines to prevent and treat migraine headaches.

Get medical help right away if:

• Your pain is intense, or it feels like the worst headache of your life
• You have a stiff neck, fever, seizures, double vision, weakness, or trouble speaking
• The headache started after a head injury, or when you coughed, sneezed, or strained

Heart Attack. This can happen when a clot blocks blood flow to your heart. The lack of oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood can damage your heart muscle. Dizziness and nausea can be symptoms.

This is a medical emergency that needs fast treatment. Call 911 or go to an emergency room right away if you have symptoms like:

• Pain, tightness, or pressure in your chest that may spread to your neck, jaw, or arms
• Shortness of breath
• A cold sweat
• Fatigue

Doctors treat a heart attack with medicines that break up blood clots and stop new ones from forming. Surgery may be needed to clear or bypass the blockage.

Brain Tumor. It’s rare, but dizziness and nausea may be signs of a brain tumor. Other symptoms are:

• Severe headaches
• Seizures
• Changes in your vision, hearing, or sense of smell
• Personality changes
• Loss of balance

Treatment depends on the size and type of your tumor. Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are all possible treatments.

The older you are, the greater your chance for problems with dizziness. As you age, you’re also more likely to take medications that have it as a possible side effect.

If you’ve had a dizzy spell in the past, your odds of having a problem again are increased.

The most serious complication with dizziness is falling. It may also be unsafe for you to drive or do other tasks. If your dizziness is caused by another health problem, you may face other problems if that condition goes untreated.

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If only love caused dizziness, people would probably be much happier. We decided to ask Natalya Umerenkova, a leading neurologist at the Clinic Expert Kursk LLC, about other reasons for this condition.

If only love caused dizziness, people would probably be much happier.

We decided to ask Natalia Vladimirovna Umerenkova, a leading neurologist at the Clinic Expert Kursk LLC, about other causes of this condition.

－ Natalya Vladimirovna, what can be understood as dizziness?

This is an important question – especially for the doctor who is looking for the cause of the patient’s deterioration.

What is dizziness like? Distinguish between rotational and non-rotational.

In the first case, there is a feeling of “rotation” of one’s own body or objects surrounding the person.

The second type – when, for example, the head is “dizzy” when standing up. In this case, a feeling of “lightness”, “lightness” in the head is more likely to be noted, a person may feel sick. There is a darkening in the eyes, palpitations, a “fainting” state. In this case, the sensation of “rotation” as such may not be.

Sometimes vertigo is understood as a feeling of unsteadiness that occurs with walking disorders of various nature.

A person is often unable to distinguish between them, if only because it does not matter much to him.

－ Often a person describes it this way: “I was sitting, I got up abruptly, my head was very dizzy. ” What could be the reasons? Why does it get dark in the eyes when you get up?

More often the cause of such complaints is orthostatic hypotension (which is associated with a disruption of the autonomic nervous system – when moving to a vertical position, blood from the upper half of the body “flows” into the vessels of the abdominal cavity and legs, cerebral blood flow suffers and a short-term decrease in blood supply to the brainstem appears brain).

－ What is the most common cause of dizziness?

Leading are circulatory disorders in the brain, as well as pathological processes in the vestibular apparatus and the central nervous system (responsible for a sense of balance).

－ What diseases can cause dizziness?

There are many. It should be remembered that dizziness can be a symptom of both neurological and somatic diseases.

To name a few. Orthostatic hypotension (for example, the previously mentioned “sat – got up – darkened in the eyes”) – is caused by disorders in the autonomic nervous system, for example, in adolescence, with or after some infectious diseases and some others. Blood loss. Heart disease, for example, some arrhythmias, when not enough blood is supplied to the brain at a certain point in time. Traumatic brain injury. Strokes.

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Dizziness can also be caused by: cerebral aneurysms; atherosclerotic lesions of the vessels of the brain and neck; multiple sclerosis; Meniere’s disease; labyrinthitis; benign positional vertigo; osteochondrosis; incorrect selection of glasses for vision correction; some types of migraine; anemia; diabetes; pathology of the musculoskeletal system, when the patient has a feeling of instability.

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－ Can dizziness be a consequence of taking medications?

Yes, quite a lot of drugs can cause this side effect. In particular, drugs to lower blood pressure, muscle relaxants, anticonvulsants, insulin therapy (in the case when blood glucose levels are significantly reduced).

－ Is dizziness psychogenic?

Yes, such cases are known. It can occur with anxiety disorders, obsessions, phobias. There is also dizziness with stress. Such cases are described.

－ Can the belly be connected to the head? In the sense that problems of the gastrointestinal tract can lead to dizziness?

No direct relationship. Some diseases of the gastrointestinal tract can be an indirect cause of dizziness, accompanied by this symptom, but often it is not the leading one, in contrast, for example, abdominal pain, other specific manifestations of the pathology of the digestive system.

The connection between the “belly and the head” is also possible in the form of “seasickness”: due to the imperfect functioning of the vestibular apparatus, a person in transport feels dizzy and nauseous – despite the fact that there may not be a disease of the digestive system itself. In many cases, if the movement continues, the nausea turns into vomiting.

－ How can you tell when the feeling of dizziness is not dangerous, and when it is associated with a particular disease?

It is better to entrust the clarification of this issue to the doctor, since even short-term, without immediate consequences, dizziness can be a sign of some kind of disease.

Additional signs such as nausea and vomiting, fever, general weakness, cold sweat, neurological symptoms in the form of speech disorders, deterioration or “loss” of visual fields, movement disorders, and sensitivity disorders should also be of concern.

I want to warn everyone who reads this article: do not engage in self-diagnosis. If you experience dizziness, you should consult a doctor.

－ What should I do if I feel dizzy?

Take a comfortable position, lie down. If possible, measure blood pressure and glucose levels. Provide access to fresh air. Call a doctor.

－ Which doctor should I see if I feel dizzy?

It depends on what is causing the dizziness.