This site I have found is a rather specific online chat community. Here we have family members talking about their loved ones having psychotic episodes as a result of UTI's urian retract infections. Mainly it seams the writers are talking about their elderly parents in hospitals or rest homes. The experiences seam relatively fimmilar and writers are consoling in each other.
Here is the web site link: http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8719974289750676722
Intended purpose of this web page seams to be, to find out further information about others experiences, and consolation by talking to other that have been having a similar tough time with their loved ones. this site is interactive it seams as though most of the comments get responded to and questions are answered by others, and their messages are left for others to see and join the conversation. People contribute to this site by creating a log in and posting your thoughts, opinions ideas and situations. It appears people are contributing by posting their situations to others looking for answers, and answers and opinions on others situations are expresses. it appears pepole choose to contribute to this community because they are seeking to console and get answers from others by keeping themselves and their family unknown.
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Originally Posted by laurac260 View Post
http://www.medicinenet.com/icu_psychosis/page3.htm
I was wondering if anyone here on TUGs had experienced this, either personally or if a family member had experienced this.
MIL is back in the hospital again, 3rd trip since December (long, long story). She dealt with this back in Dec/Jan, and is going thru it again now. We've also learned that UTIs (which she has) also very commonly causes dementia in the elderly
Yes. My mother was hospitalised due to a fall and delirium followed. The hospital was treating the fracture but didn't recognise the UTI. She improved when given treatment for the UTI. Over the next few years she suffered regular UTI's (in one year she had about 9 episodes) and these caused her to fall often as well as act demented. She was in a nursing home for 3 years and I observed that UTI's are very common among the elderly and that they can have a dramatic impact on behaviour.
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What I find interesting is the different scenarios the brain comes up with for its hallucinations. Some are pleasant, some are disturbing. Some seem to be rooted in a person's past (such as seeing loved ones or beloved pets) and some seem to have no connection to anything.
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I work in a busy noisy ICU and many of our patients exhibit signs of this.
It's usually cured by sleep and when they get transferred to the floor they miraculously seem to improve.
As someone who has had to listen to 12 hours of non-stop yelling, spitting, and many other hallucinatory actions, sometimes the only way to cope with this is to laugh. It's not that we are laughing at the patient but you have got to be able to keep your cool as you deal with this til it passes and we are only human. Some patients will literally yell and scream non-stop for hours which can really grate on your nerves even if you are the most patient person in the world.
It really is a problem. Sadly the need for very loud life support alarms only makes things worse but are required for legal and safety reasons.
Can you imagine trying to sleep with loud blaring bells and whistles just when you fall asleep jolting you awake? I really feel for our patients on this one.
Sometimes I think we should give earplugs to the patients.
I've got a friend who has an apple iphone app that measures decibels and he measured the decibel levels in our ICU during the daytime and they are at deafening levels.
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