Alcoholic psychoses occur at the end of the second stage and the beginning of the third stage; the most common of these is delirium tremens, also known as delirium tremens. As a rule, this psychosis occurs against the background of stopping drinking alcohol, says the head of the Department of Drug Abuse and Substance Abuse at the Russian National Research Medical University. NI Pirogov of the Ministry of Health of Russia, psychiatrist-narcologist Lev Blagov.
Delirium tremens occurs after a sharp cessation of alcohol in an alcoholic with a long alcohol history. This process develops gradually in the evening and at night. Blagov said that the patient was experiencing increasing anxiety, worry, fear, insomnia and nightmares, and that these turned into “psychotic reality”.
Delirium, like other metal-alcohol psychoses, occurs against the background of chronic intoxication, acquired inferiority of the brain, pathology of internal organs and toxic formation systems.
“This psychosis is very dangerous. This is accompanied by acute deterioration of the brain, cardiovascular, pulmonary and other body systems. The whole body suffers severely. Korsakoff syndrome may also develop. Heavy and prolonged alcohol consumption leads to delirium, often with a convulsive component, after which the person may develop acute dementia. “The patient has no idea, does not understand where he is, does not remember what is happening around him, cannot find a toilet and “fulfills his needs in the most inappropriate place,” Blagov said.
Symptoms of alcoholic encephalopathy are complemented by polyneuropathy of the extremities; Paralysis and paresis with muscle atrophy and sensory disturbances may occur.
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