Recently, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and dementia are shaking our lives, of which dementia has been limited to the elderly, but it has recently occurred among young middle-aged people, so it is said that daily life is important. However, there is also a disease that is similar to dementia just mentioned, but has a completely different personality, and it is a disease called delirium that we will recognize today.Sometimes, dementia and delirium are considered to be the same diseases with different names, but in fact, they are completely different.Today we’re going to look at everything about this disease.
Symptoms of delirium
There are various symptoms of delirium, and among them, I will tell you the seven most common symptoms that people who are suffering from delirium or have experienced.The most representative symptom of delirium is sleep disorders, which usually occurs at night, and some people can’t sleep well, but in severe cases, they can’t wake up in the middle or fall asleep again.In some cases, only the concept of date disappears, but depending on the situation, close family members or acquaintances cannot recognize it and cannot distinguish whether they are home or not.In addition, it is called hallucination over the symptoms of feeling as if an object is visible even though the object does not actually exist, and most of the delirium patients often say that there is a person in a place where no one is present, or that a thief has entered. Even if it is a simple task, people with symptoms of delirium cannot concentrate in one place for a long time, resulting in difficulties in living a proper social life.In some cases, people may feel anxious, but distractions may be noticeable depending on the person, and if the symptoms worsen and are hospitalized, damage delusions such as medical staff trying to kill them may be observed.Several symptoms of delirium, including the five mentioned earlier, may lead to aggressive or impulsive unexpected behavior due to poor judgment.As it improves during the day and worsens at night, improvement and deterioration are repeated several times a day.
How to treat delirium
In order to overcome these symptoms of delirium, two things must be done at the same time, which is to first visit a hospital to find the cause of the disease and treat it first through various tests and examinations. In addition, environmental factors that can affect delirium should be adjusted, and it is also important to inform the date and situation of today so that the patient can recognize the present, and to wear hearing aids or glasses if the patient’s hearing or vision has deteriorated.