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Eye drops
Identifier
005264
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
CJEM. 1999 Jul;1(2):115-6. Anticholinergic visual hallucinosis from atropine eye drops. Bishop AG, Tallon JM Department of Emergency Medicine, New Halifax Infirmary, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
A 37-year-old man with type I diabetes mellitus and chronic renal failure presented to the emergency department complaining of hallucinations. He was 5 days postoperative for left pars plana vitrectomy and intra-ocular lens implantation and had been taking ophthalmic atropine, tobramycin and prednisolone. He had presented 5 months earlier, on the same ophthalmic medications, with postoperative hallucinations after a right pars plana vitrectomy. Visual hallucinations are a major side effect of anticholinergic poisoning. Ophthalmic instillation of atropine has been documented to cause many central nervous sytstem symptoms, including hallucinations.
PMID: 17659118
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AntibioticsEye disease treatments
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AtropineBlindness, macular degeneration and other sight impairment