ACUTE-PSYCHOSIS AFTER MEFLOQUINE - REPORT OF 6 CASES

Authors
SOWUNMI A ADIO RA ODUOLA AMJ OGUNDAHUNSI OAT SALAKO LA
Citation
A. Sowunmi et al., ACUTE-PSYCHOSIS AFTER MEFLOQUINE - REPORT OF 6 CASES, Tropical and geographical medicine, 47(4), 1995, pp. 179-180
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Tropical and geographical medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00413232
Volume
47
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
179 - 180
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-3232(1995)47:4<179:AAM-RO>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A self-limiting psychosis characterized by acute onset of visual and a uditory hallucinations and poor sleep developed in six adults between 8 and 24 hours after oral administration of 750-1500 mg of the antimal arial mefloquine. All patients had no personal or family history of ps ychosis and were neurologically and mentally normal before mefloquine ingestion. These cases illustrate that acute psychotic symptoms may oc cur in patients treated with mefloquine.