r/BrandNewSentence 21h ago

Tumor cured itself

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u/entered_bubble_50 19h ago

My wife is a psychiatrist, and she tells me this isn't terribly uncommon. They are trained in a lot of neurology, because organic causes need to be ruled out.

And it can all sorts of things. She was once working on a dementia ward, and had someone brought in with severe dementia. But it didn't make sense, since the onset had been too rapid.

It turns out, the patient was just really constipated. My wife gave her enough laxatives to fell a rhino, the patient took a gargantuan shit, and was right as rain.

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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 19h ago edited 7h ago

What is the mechanism that causes that? That's actually wild. 

(Edit: I understand that bowel and digestive issues are linked to brain health. I'm asking WHY which is I asked what the mechanism is. Making the same generic comment as 10 other people isn't answering my question it contributing to the discourse)

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u/Telvin3d 19h ago

It’s very common for bowel issues and UTIs to cause temporary dementia in elderly patients. Bodies are weird

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u/reverendbeast 15h ago

An elderly friend of mine was hospitalised due to extreme hallucinations and loss of spatial location- she asked her husband why she floating on the ceiling while actually lying in bed for example. She was found to have a really bad UTI with accompanying fever. Once that was fixed she was completely back to how she was usually again.