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  2. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms can include a craving for alcohol, inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things (known as anhedonia), clouding of sensorium, disorientation, nausea and vomiting or headache. [17] Insomnia is a common protracted withdrawal symptom that persists after the acute withdrawal phase of alcohol.

  3. Post-acute-withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS) is a hypothesized set of persistent impairments that occur after withdrawal from alcohol, [1][2] opiates, benzodiazepines, antidepressants, and other substances. [3][4][5] Infants born to mothers who used substances of dependence during pregnancy may also experience a PAWS. [6][7] While PAWS has been ...

  4. Delirium tremens - Wikipedia

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    Delirium tremens (DTs; lit. 'mental disturbance with shaking') is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol. [2] When it occurs, it is often three days into the withdrawal symptoms and lasts for two to three days. [2] Physical effects may include shaking, shivering, irregular heart rate, and sweating. [1]

  5. Night sweats - Wikipedia

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    Infectious disease, oncology. Night sweats or nocturnal hyperhidrosis[1] is the repeated occurrence of excessive sweating during sleep. [2] The person may or may not also perspire excessively while awake. One of the most common causes of night sweats in women over 40 is the hormonal changes related to menopause and perimenopause. [3]

  6. Alcoholic polyneuropathy - Wikipedia

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    Alcoholic polyneuropathy is a neurological disorder in which peripheral nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously. It is defined by axonal degeneration in neurons of both the sensory and motor systems and initially occurs at the distal ends of the longest axons in the body.

  7. Alcoholic hallucinosis - Wikipedia

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    Alcoholic hallucinosis is a complication of alcohol misuse in people with alcohol use disorder. [1][2] It can occur during acute intoxication or withdrawal with the potential of having delirium tremens. Alcohol hallucinosis is a rather uncommon alcohol-induced psychotic disorder almost exclusively seen in chronic alcoholics who have many ...

  8. Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol

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    The Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol, commonly abbreviated as CIWA or CIWA-Ar (revised version), is a 10-item scale used in the assessment and management of alcohol withdrawal. [1][2] Each item on the scale is scored independently, and the summation of the scores yields an aggregate value that correlates to the severity of ...

  9. Wernicke encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Wernicke encephalopathy (WE), also Wernicke's encephalopathy, [1] or wet brain is the presence of neurological symptoms caused by biochemical lesions of the central nervous system after exhaustion of B-vitamin reserves, in particular thiamine (vitamin B 1). [2] The condition is part of a larger group of thiamine deficiency disorders that ...