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What Causes Hallucinations And Increased Appetite?

I have a neighbor who is 85. She suddenly start seeing cats once in a while she was on excitation for 3 weeks but it didn t t help. Now she sees dogs cats children in her home and outside. She gets upset because we can t see them she has hallucinations constantly. Her appetite has also increased. And she puts things in the wrong place
Fri, 29 Dec 2017
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in my opinion it is necessary to check her memory

whether she has frequent falls .

so as to rule out symptoms of lewy body dementia

it is necessary to do blood tests, imaging of the brain to rule out any other causes
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What Causes Hallucinations And Increased Appetite?

in my opinion it is necessary to check her memory whether she has frequent falls . so as to rule out symptoms of lewy body dementia it is necessary to do blood tests, imaging of the brain to rule out any other causes