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Wei-Juan Xu1, Ning Wei1, Yi Xu1
1Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China; The Key Laboratory of Mental Disorder's Management of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Background:
Over-the-counter cold medicines, which contain amantadine, are widely used in the People's Republic of China. Clinicians are familiar with the psychosis caused by long-term treatment with amantadine, especially in elderly patients; however, early-onset psychotic complications among healthy young individuals have rarely been reported.
Case Presentation:
This article reports the case of a 28-year-old patient who presented with hallucination-delusion syndrome soon after treatment with cold medicine containing amantadine hydrochloride and acetaminophen. The symptoms resolved completely after a 2-week course of paliperidone treatment.
Conclusion:
Clinicians should be sensitive to the acute psychotic complications induced by an interaction between amantadine and acetaminophen.
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