delirium

Symptom/Finding

delirium

Description

"A state of temporary mental confusion and clouded consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, or shock and characterized by anxiety, tremors, hallucinations, delusions, and incoherence" [American Heritage Dictionary]

Diseases Linked to This Process

Diseases

Diseases associated with this finding or symptom:

African trypanosomiasis
Anthrax
Arenaviral hemorrhagic fevers (S. America)
Ebola-Marburg viral diseases
Ehrlichiosis
Encephalopathy, acute toxic
Fumigants, acute toxic effect
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Herpes B virus encephalomyelitis
Kyasanur forest disease
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Meningococcal infection
Naegleriasis
Organophosphates & carbamates, acute poisoning
Plague
Rabies
Relapsing fever
Rift valley fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Smallpox
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus, mite-borne scrub
Viral encephalitides, mosquito-borne
West Nile virus infection
Yellow fever