Talk:Delirium tremens

message: "Withdrawal from other drugs which are not sedative-hypnotics, such as opioids, marijuana, cocaine etc. do not have major medical complications and withdrawal is therefore not life threatening"  Withdrawal from opioids absolutely has MAJOR medical complications!   I'd imagine one would have to have been living under a rock for about fifty years to not know that. 24.67.72.62 (talk) 05:24, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: One of the more and one of the most is the same thing. We are also required to paraphrase. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:42, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  This simply isn't true

message: "Although used rarely, an alcohol drip may be prescribed to sedate severe patients, who will then need to be "weaned" off of the alcohol."
This is factually incorrect. Alcohol is never administered by physicians to avert withdrawal symptoms except in cases of medical misconduct.
There is also no medical protocol for someone to be, "weaned off of the alcohol".
While it is true that some alcoholics in withdrawal are given ethanol this is only within the scope of co-morbidity. If the remark is to be reinstated, then a reference should be provided alongside which demonstrates medical practice advocating that alcohol be given for the purpose of averting withdrawal, and not some other issue.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.122.170 (talk) 14:31, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Factual Inconsistency

message: i think theres an error with this in the article. "Unlike the withdrawal syndrome associated with opiate dependence, delirium tremens (and alcohol withdrawal in general) can be fatal."
opiate withdrawal can in fact be fatal. i know a few people who work at rehab facilities. opiate and alcohol addicts, if severe enough, constantly have their hearts monitored because there have been cases of heart failure due to withdrawal. i think its more common in older or unhealthy people.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.188.195.13 (talk) 20:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: possible error

message: "drawings on wallpaper that the patient would perceive as giant spiders ready to attack her or him)"
That is an illusion, not a hallucination!
An illusion is defined ad a "deformed perception of reality", that is, perceiving something while the real object is something completely different; a hallucination is a "perception without object", that is, perceiving something while there is nothing that could generate that perception.
So, mistaking wallpaper drawings for spiders is an illusion; seeing spiders on the walls of a room where there are no spiders and nothing that could be mistaken for a spider (no drawings on the wallpaper) is a hallucination.
Devil Master 13:45, 15 Apr 2005 (CET)
So, a person experiencing these symptoms is illusionating rather than hallucinating? I'm sorry, but this seems like meaningless semantics to me. I think, at least as far as popular usage is concerned, any person seeing things that do not exist, due to a medical condition or intoxication which warps the perception, can be said to be experiencing a hallucination. Of course, when you are able to see the sailboat in the Magic Eye picture, this is an illusion, but when the wallpaper becomes alive and begins attacking you, I think this can be properly characterized as a hallucination regardless of whether the vision is precipitated by some existing object or not.67.46.0.13 06:53, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: drawings

message: Schitzos have hallucinations with police contents??? Im not a psychiatrist but even I think this is wrong??--Light current 21:39, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police contents??? 

message: The article's introduction is only talking about the causes of delirium tremens, but it doesn't say what it actually is!! What kind of condition is it? If I asked you "what is delirium tremens?", would the right answer be "It's associated with alcohol, and it's fatal!"? As most other Wikipedia articles of this type would 'agree', that's not correct. Kreachure 16:22, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact missing in intro: WHAT IS DT??? 

message: "Despite notions to the contrary, because of delirium tremens, alcohol withdrawal is the most dangerous because it has the possibility of being fatal."
What does this mean? What notions? When it says "most dangerous", does it mean among kinds of withdrawal or does it mean that it's DT that makes alcohol withdrawal dangerous? NickelShoe 06:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, anonymous user, for clearing that up. NickelShoe 19:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing

message: the article List of commercial brands of beer links here instead of an article on the beer of the same (or similar) name.
:The correct article exists at Delirium Tremens (beer). I'm going to take the liberty of linking to that article at the top of this one. NickelShoe 20:34, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation? 

message: ranks #1 on Google for "Delium tremens"NumberOneGoogle 18:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Number One on Google

message: I think this section contains a lot of material that may be peripheral to the main topic. It's just a very long list of fictional references, and highbrow as many of them might be, it's not explained why depictions of delerium tremens might have a special cultural significance. Alcohol use and addiction certainly are important themes in fiction, but I'm not convinced that delerium tremens itself is significant in the same way, except as an illustration of those themes. For an example of addressing the significance of fictional alcoholism, see Alcoholism#Societal_impact. Notice it mentions a few specific examples instead of just listing off a whole ton of stuff. I also think it might be good to have an article on Alcohol use in fiction or the Cultural impact of alcohol use for this type of material.--Eloil 11:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural references section 

message: I am no expert on this topic, but the following sentence seems confusing or possibly inaccurate:
:"It is possible that psychological (i.e., non-physical) factors also play a role, especially those of infections, malnutrition, or other underlying medical disorders - often related to alcoholism."
Malnutrition and infection are not psychological disorders.  Did you mean that psychological factors lead to malnutrition and infection?  And if so, that these (malnutrition and infection) exacerbate DT?
GreenRegsAndHam (talk) 23:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malnutrition and infection are "psychological"?? 

message: "High doses may be necessary to prevent mortality."
Are you sure you don't mean "to prevent death"? Mortality is even less preventable.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.120.100.220 (talk) 23:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error 

message: * I read somewhere that delirium tremens can be caused by magnesium deficiency. Is this true? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:53, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magnesium deficiency 

message: * This is obviously a bad translation. Use google translate and it comes up as trembling delirium.Muleattack (talk) 22:17, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delirium tremens - Latin for "shaking frenzy" 

message: the introduction says:
"...fewer than about 50% to 60% of alcoholics..."
I'm not an English native speaker nor I know how many alcoholics in the US develop DT; but fewer than about 50-60% makes no sense to me.
The source says "fewer than 50%", that sounds better.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.152.118.233 (talk) 16:12, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentage 

message: doi:10.1056/NEJMra1407298 JFW | T@lk 11:34, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  NEJM review 

message: *  In the 1945 film The Lost Weekend, an alcoholic writer named Don, played by Ray Milland, is admitted to a hospital's alcoholic ward. As one of the other alcoholic patients appears to go into delirium tremens, Don escapes the hospital and heads home to drink.  Following his last consumption of liquor, he experiences DTs when an illusion of a small rodent crawls out of a hole in the wall. He then hallucinates a bat flying through the room as the bat proceeds to devour the small rodent.
* In the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, public relations man Joe Clay (played by Jack Lemmon) is committed to a sanitorium twice.  In the first instance, he is held in a straitjacket and in a padded room while experiencing delirium tremens.  In the second instance, Joe is committed after breaking into a liquor store and afterwards wakes in the sanitorium, strapped down to a table and sweating profusely, whereupon his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor Jim Hungerford (played by Jack Klugman) informs him that "For two days there was a little green man chasing you around with pruning shears."
*  In the 2003 film The Last Samurai, Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a disenchanted ex-United States Army captain and an alcoholic, who is traumatized by his experience fighting in the Civil War and the Indian Wars, is treated by the Hirotaro family in the throes of delirium tremens after being captured in battle with samurai troops led by Katsumoto.
*  In the film Leaving Las Vegas, the main character, Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage), suffers from the DTs after a drinking binge, and rushes to his liquor supply to prevent them from continuing.
*  In the novel L'Assommoir (1876), by French author Émile Zola, the husband of the heroine Gervaise, an alcoholic roofer named Coupeau, succumbs to delirium tremens in a Parisian hospital.
*  Ethan Thomas, protagonist of the video game Condemned 2, has become an alcoholic since the events of the previous game and must regularly consume whiskey to prevent the violent shaking of his delirium tremens from spoiling his aim.
*  The protagonist of Malcolm Lowry's 1947 novel Under the Volcano suffers from delirium tremens.
*  In the M*A*S*H episode "Bottoms Up", an alcoholic nurse gets delirium tremens.
*  In the film Everything Must Go, the character Nick Halsey (played by Will Ferrell) suffers from delirium tremens in the movie.
*  In the "Birthmarks" episode of season 5 of the television series House MD, a patient who is an alcoholic suffers from delirium tremens while being treated in the hospital.
*  In the 1989 CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie My Name Is Bill W., Bill Wilson (co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous) is admitted to the hospital where one of the doctors claims Bill is going through the early stages of delirium tremens. Later in the movie, he is strapped down to a bed appearing to once again have the symptoms of DTs.
* The fraternity letters Delta Tau Chi (ΔΤΧ) from Animal House could be a reference to delirium tremens or possibly detox.
* Irish folk singer Christy Moore wrote a song titled Delirium Tremens, humorously describing a man going through the symptoms, which features on his 1985 album Ordinary Man.
* In the 2013 Bollywood movie Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola, the character Harry Mandola (played by Pankaj Kapur) suffers from DT, and has hallucinations of a grinning pink buffalo.
* In the third episode of the third season of television show Perception, Dr. Daniel Pierce interviews a suspect who is suffering from DT.
* On the 26th of December 1989 Huyghe Brewery in Melle, Belgium started the production of a brand of golden ale they call "Delirium Tremens". The beer is still produced today and has a Beer Advocate score of 92 and is distributed world wide.
* In the 1974 TV film The Morning After, an alcoholic named Charlie Lester, Dick Van Dyke, In a desperate attempt to stop drinking, Charlie takes a vacation and goes alone to a seaside resort. He winds up passed out on the beach. He suffers a terrifying attack of delirium tremens and wakes up in a mental ward.
* In the 2015 mini-comic adaptation of the novel Dead Endings, the main character is drawn with a graphical representation of Delirium Tremens as she interacts with her companion at a bar.
Moved here Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:08, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreffed trivia

message: Why is it not self-evident that boozers "can handle their drink" - appear relatively sober notwithstanding their high consumption - because the body combats the CNS depression of alcohol with epinephrine (adrenaline) release?
Why is it not self-evident excess epinephrine is why so many alcoholics can nevertheless work like demons the following day? That is, because they're 'speeding'? And MUST drink to combat the CNS stimulation?
Why is it not self-evident the symptoms of DTs are the symptoms of '[excessive] adrenaline syndrome', due to the abrupt cessation of the moderating CNS depressor - alcohol?
Just as 'shell-shock' or 'battle fatigue' evidence adrenaline syndrome? That is, chronic over-exposure to adrenaline? 122.151.210.84 (talk) 04:04, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Because adrenaline doesn't last long enough in a person's system to affect what they do the next day.  It begins to wear off in minutes, not hours.  That's why. Ask a doctor. This isn't the place for personal opinions or non-professional theories about medicine. 174.171.71.34 (talk) 09:01, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are DTs anything other than 'adrenaline syndrome'?