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# Delirium

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Delirium is a medical term. Doctors use it to describe patients that have lost parts or all of their ability to focus attention. Such people may also have problems to concentrate, or to remember things or people. Delirium is a medical symptom. It is not a disease. It can have many causes.

Some of them are:

- Injuries to the head or the nervous system
- Mental illness
- Traumata or Shock
- Fever or pain
- Certain substances found in drugs or poisons.
- Not having enough water, or food, or sleep
- Withdrawal symptoms (When people try to get away from a drug or alcohol addiction)

It is very hard to treat delirium, without knowing the cause for it.

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