Clinical features of eating refusal among schizophrenic
- Author:
Thanh Phuong To
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
schizophrenia
- MeSH:
Disulfiram;
Schizophrenia
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
1998;344(1):60-61
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A study on 44 schizophrenic (male: 5; female: 39), ages of 16-45 who had signs of eating refusal within 2 days in the Central Metal Hospital has shown that most of them were female patients (88,6%); eating refusal were due to the delirium (45,4%), hallucination (40,9%) and sense loss (61,4%); the average weightloss occurred strongly in the schizophrenics type hypertonicity. The patients should be timely treated.
