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Psychosis following use of proprietary antidiarrhoeal medicines
P Buckley1, C Larkin, E O'Callaghan
1Cluain Mhuire Family Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
|November 1, 1990
Abstract:
Anticholinergic psychosis was observed to follow ingestion of proprietary antidiarrhoeal preparations by a 63-year-old woman. Possible abuse or accidental overuse of such medicines in the acutely psychotic patient should always be considered.