Disembarkment syndrome

Description

Disembarkment syndrome, or Mal de debarquement (MdD) occurs when habituation to unfamiliar motion patterns like traveling on a boat, train, or airplane, becomes resistant to re-adaption on return to stable conditions. It results in an illusion of self motion typically described as rocking, bobbing, or swaying. Brief periods of MdD (hours) are common in healthy individuals, this otherwise natural phenomenon can become persistent in some individuals.

Index terms

Disembarkment syndrome
Mal de débarquement
Sickness of disembarkment

Exclusions from above levels

01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
02 – Neoplasms
05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases

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18 – Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes

Sibling codes

AB31.0 – Meniere disease
AB31.1 – Vestibular migraine
AB31.2 – Benign positional paroxysmal vertigo
AB31.3 – Superior canal dehiscence syndrome
AB31.5 – Autoimmune inner ear disease
AB31.6 – Vestibular paroxysmia
AB31.7 – Vertiginous syndromes
AB31.Y – Other specified episodic vestibular syndrome
AB31.Z – Episodic vestibular syndrome, unspecified

Foundation entity

Disembarkment syndrome – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/459420954

Part of: AB31: Episodic vestibular syndrome › 10: Diseases of the ear or mastoid process