Maniacal excitement
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Description:
Maniacal excitement in typical option consists of a so-called "maniacal triad": the painful increased mood, the accelerated current of thoughts, motive excitement.
Symptoms of Maniacal excitement:
The maniacal state is shown by the increased mood, speech and psychomotor excitement. It is often combined with an alarming or depressive background and is followed by considerable irritability, hostility to people around.
Patients can state the fleeting ideas of prosecution. Patients are cheerful, are irascible, spiteful, irritable, sing, dance, almost do not sit on site, in everything interfere, undertake a set of cases, without finishing any. The speech of patients bystry, chaotic from a set of the ideas, they often do not finish the phrase, jump on other subject. One thoughts excite others at once, are associated not on sense, and on accord or other signs. Patients revaluate the forces and opportunities, often state the crazy ideas of greatness in this connection they make a set of ridiculous, quite often life-threatening acts. At objections are irascible and aggressive. Maniacal patients usually are become hoarse from a constant talk, grown thin from sleeplessness, however they are vigorous and full of plans for the future. The first symptoms of purposeful maniacal excitement are quite often shown by unusual activity at night.
Reasons of Maniacal excitement:
Maniacal excitement is observed at maniac-depressive psychosis, a mniakalny attack of schizophrenia.
The maniacal syndrome can be observed at infectious, toxic, organic and other psychoses. In particular, it can be induced by drugs or psychotropic drugs (for example, antidepressants, corticosteroids, Phenaminum, cocaine).
Treatment of Maniacal excitement:
Along with aminazine it is possible to enter a haloperidol - to 20 - 30 mg a day or trisedyl - 10 - 15 mg a day. At the same time appoint a lity a carbonate inside for 1,5 - 1,8 a day or a lity hydroxybutyrate - intramusculary on 2 ml of 20% of solution. The same drug can be administered intravenously slowly in isotonic solution of sodium of chloride or 40% glucose solution (a single dose of 1200-1600 mg, daily - 1600-3200 mg). Further the same drugs are used both parenterally, and inside (for course treatment of a maniacal state).
