What causes a delirium or acute confusion?
Acute confusion may occur different causes often indicates an underlying physical problem.
- Infection, with associated fever, often involves urinary tract infection or pneumonia.
- Oxygen deficiency in the brain (hypoxia) can be caused by: low blood pressure, heart attack, arrhythmias,...
- Neurological disorders, such as stroke, brain tumor,...
- Acute trauma, for example hip fracture.
- Urinary retention, not being able to completely empty the bladder.
- Severe constipation, which in turn may lead to urinary retention.
- Disturbing the sensory perception.
- Dehydration or dehydration.
Symptoms of a delirium or acute confusion
Each person experiences a dilier in a different way. Next disorders may vary from person to person, no direct links can be made between the cause and symptom.
It is striking in acutely confused elderly people that the coherence of their thoughts and conversations is completely lost. Perhaps you have just said something that your family member has forgotten after a short time. Things that have happened recently cannot remember.thinking and speech disorder. It happens that people say nothing at all, that they seem very apathetic.
With a change of consciousness The older person who is going through a dilator often seems less vigilant. It seems like your family member is in some kind of dream state. One may feel that you are well awake by being very agitated, but in the 5 most cases it is a sleepy situation.
In a sleep disorder, It is particularly common for older people to become more restless at night; most of the time they are engaged in activities of former times.
Your family member can make mistakes in interpretation and hallucination during a delier. A dilier is characterized by illogical and incoherent thinking. Your family friend will see or hear things that are not there like seeing bugs, hearing voices or other sounds. This is described as Idiotic perception.
Motor disturbance: Because your family member has lost control of himself and the environment, he can feel very anxious and restless. This can be expressed in two ways. On the one hand, the older person can be very active, and the whole room is put down. We often see that the bags are packed back as well as the stuff of the fellow patient. Your family member's reactions can be 6 suspicious or even aggressive in nature. On other hand, elderly people's movements can be extremely limited, for example an older person who picks up the pager or who wants to g
It is not just physical causes that can give rise to a dilier..Thus psychiatric conditions can cause a delirium., because the threshold to acute confusion is lower.cognitive ability Your family member will discuss with the doctor before taking your medicine. A delier may also arise from toxic influences. For example, the sudden withdrawal of medication that has been taken for a long time, sudden withdrawal from alcohol in patients with alcohol addiction. It is interesting to know whether your family member took his medication correctly or if he liked to drink a glass of alcohol and whether your relative took enough food or drink. Bring along a full list of the medicines your family members took at home. This will help the doctor find out more quickly what the ear sac is from the deliper.
The interventions below are intended to minimise the symptoms of acute confusion, which we have explained before.
Tell me who you are and what you will do; repeat if necessary. Speak clearly and slowly, in short sentences and ask only . Please listen carefully to what your family member says, even though his story is not related.
If possible, make a walk In the hallway, even though your relative is apathetic and says he's very tired.
Take an object, in which your relative has something different from his field of view.
Follow daily rituals, which your relative has before going to bed at home, as much as possible, for example brushing teeth first or some leaves in a book.
Take your family member back to the reality By telling you where he is, who you are, what you come to do; use this. a well-readable clock or calendar
When you have vision and/or hearing problems, make sure that your family member has his glasses or earpieces on him.
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