Vertigo and dizziness in pediatric patients and adolescents

Imbalance and vertigo is an uncommon complaint in pediatric patients and adolescents. Studies devoted to the vertigo in adult population have reported a one-year prevalence of 23% for unspecified dizziness and 5% for vestibular vertigo. In contrast, another work of all ICD-9 codes related to vestibular and balance disorders in more than 560000 distinct pediatric patient encounters during a 4-year period revealed prevalence of only 0.4% for unspecific dizziness, 0.03% for peripheral, and 0.02% for central vestibulopathy (Jahn K et all 2015).