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What Is Delirium?

Delirium is a term that fes to an acute clouding of the mind. And although it results in psychological symptoms, itis caused by physical problems to the body. Any physical illness that causes a stress to the body could cause a delirium. When people have deliriums, chemical messages get across from the body elsewhere, into the brain and the nervous system itself. This occurs either when people are very sick, or when people are more frail and more fragile,. perhaps due to older age, or perhaps due to vulnerability such as dementa.

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