Example of Delírium Trémens

By depriving the body of the substances that intoxicate it, it reacts violently, since the body enters in conflict with himself, on the one hand he seeks to continue receiving the poison and on the other his body tries to detoxify it. This fight is called withdrawal syndrome. The withdrawal syndrome has three phases and the third is called Delírium trémens. (From the Latin delirium delirium and tremulous tremens) This is the most dangerous and deadly of the withdrawal syndromes.
The delirium tremens It occurs in alcoholic people who drink a lot and consume little food or foods that do not nourish them. It begins when they stop drinking alcohol for more than five hours or when they have a head injury. The delirium tremens It can also be triggered by a head infection.
Example of withdrawal symptoms and delirium tremens:
After six hours of interrupting the alcohol intake, sweating, tremors, nausea, vomiting begin. Headache. Lack of appetite This is the first phase.
In the second phase the symptoms continue, hallucinations, palpitations, paleness, irritability, anxiety may appear.

Tachycardia, seizures, experienced hallucinations, Aggression, Agitation, violence towards those around him or towards himself. Confusion, disorientation, perception problems. Patients may have a fever, continuous tremors, violent vomiting. Diarrhea Some do not control their sphincters.
To reduce symptoms and avoid further damage, these patients are given certain medications, some are used to calm and sedate, such as oxazepam or valium. Sedatives, antipsychotics and anticonvulsants (many derivatives of hydantoins) in addition to vitamin b1, which is necessary to restore and stabilize the nervous system and to help convert carbohydrates into glucose, this vitamin is especially given to prevent or mitigate the effects of psychosis of Korsacoff. In it, alcoholics suffer from a form of amnesia towards the recent and disorientation.
The delirium tremens can be life threatening due to physical and mental damage and exhaustion, as dehydration, hallucinations, fever, pain around the heart (chest pain) increased heart rate, hallucinations serious. In some cases the patient becomes violent and can attack himself and even commit suicide or kill, due to psychosis.