<unk>  <unk> s) is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol. When it occurs, it is often three days into the withdrawal symptoms and lasts for two to three days. Physical effects may include shaking, shivering, irregular heart rate, and sweating. People may also hallucinate. Occasionally, a very high body temperature or seizures may result in death. Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs to withdraw from.<unk>  typically only occurs in people with a high intake of alcohol for more than a month. A similar syndrome may occur with benzodiazepine and barbiturate withdrawal. Withdrawal from stimulants such as cocaine do not have major medical complications. In a person with<unk>  it is important to rule out other associated problems such as electrolyte abnormalities, pancreatitis, and alcoholic hepatitis. Prevention is by treating withdrawal symptoms. If<unk>  occurs, aggressive treatment improves outcomes. Treatment in a quiet intensive care unit with sufficient light is often recommended. Benzodiazepines are the medication of choice with diazepam, lorazepam, chlordiazepoxide, and oxazepam all commonly used. They should be given until a person is lightly sleeping. The antipsychotic haloperidol may also be used. The vitamin thiamine is recommended. Mortality without treatment is between 15% and 40%. Currently death occurs in about 1% to 4% of cases. About half of people with alcoholism will develop withdrawal symptoms upon reducing their use. Of these, 3% to 5% develop<unk> s or have seizures. The name<unk>  was first used in 1813; however, the symptoms were well described since the 1700s. The word<unk> " is Latin for "going off the furrow," a plowing metaphor. It is also called the shaking frenzy and Saunders-Sutton syndrome. Nicknames include the shakes, the oopizootics, barrel-fever, blue horrors, bottleache, bats, drunken horrors, seeing pink elephants, gallon distemper, quart mania, heebie jeebies, pink spiders, and riding the ghost train.
Delirium tremens
Barbiturate
Ateliosis
Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome
Excited delirium
Hepatic encephalopathy
Bell's mania
Emergence delirium