Other names: AMENCO, disorientation
Confusion is a symptom of many diseases and conditions. Confusion may cause intoxication with alcohol or other addictive substances.
Furthermore, it is a symptom of dementia, either Alzheimer’s dementia, dementia in Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, alcoholic dementia and the like.
Confusion is the result of a cognitive disorder. The brain is not able to solve a specific problem to cope. Confusion can occur after brain or causes of delirium during which mainly occurs in older patients after dark.
It is a qualitative disturbance of consciousness, when a patient to his confusion and acts that performed during the confusion, remember.
Confusion may be caused by a variety of diseases, in cases of suspected serious condition, it is necessary to call a doctor to the patient. A person may be confused and in a situation that does not have experience, and that is simply ignorant – this is not considered a disease.
Description of meningitis Our brain and spinal cord are coated with three layers. These layers, together with the cerebrospinal fluid that fills the space between the packaging protects the brain and spinal cord against shocks and other outside influences. The…
Description of kidney inflammation Pyelonephritis is an infectious inflammatory kidney disease,usually of bacterial origin (literally is an inflammation of the renal pelvis and kidney). It may occur as an acute (a rapid onset, progress with significant symptoms) or chronic (long-lasting,…
Description disease Syphilis This disease or its symptoms, inimitably portrayed in the film Peter Čepek Kerosene lamps. It is an infectious sexually transmitted disease caused by thebacterium Treponema pallidum. Man is the only host of this bacterium. Transmission is most…
Description of Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s disease was first described in 1817 by London physician James Parkinson and translated into Czech as polio shaky. In fact, but not polio, and so he was later renamed after its discoverer. In this disease,…
Description concussion Concussion (concussion, lat. Commotio cerebri) is a disorder of brain function, which is caused by injury – concussion. This was one of lighter brain injury. Characteristics of concussion involves short-term loss of consciousness (coma), memory regurgitation, which is…
Description migraine Migraine is a chronic disease characteristic headache, usually on one half of the skull. This disease of civilization suffers about 20% of women and 6% of men. Although these people are not at risk to life, but migraine…
Description of legionnaires’ disease 1976 in the United States in Philadelphia hosted a conference of war veterans – legionnaires. After some time of the congress most of the participants became ill severe pneumonia, which some have even succumbed. Because they…
Description yeast infection Candida are unicellular fungi that during the development of the human species have become a normal part of the flora of the skin and mucous membranes. Their coexistence with humans is an example of commensalism – a…
Description of myocardial infarction Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of acute forms ofischemic heart disease. Generally we can say that coronary artery disease is a disease in which there is a blockage of a blood vessel clot – thrombus,…
Description of epilepsy Epilepsy is a disease characterized by recurrent seizures. An epileptic seizure is caused by a sudden onset of an imbalance between excitatory (stimulating) and inhibitory (damping) systems in the brain, this imbalance leads to a predominance of…