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Suggest Treatment For Mental Confusion,vomiting And Blurred Vision
my son got sick in school last week took him to the emergency room he was confusied throwing up and wanting to go to sleep he said his vision was blured the lights hurt his eyes and he was at school htey took samples of his blood and his urine came back and said his alcohol level was positive but their was no acohol smell at all this what it said from his blood/acohol sammples plasma/serum blood alcohlo 13 mg/dl
Thu, 19 Mar 2015
Hello !
I understand your concern.
I would like to know if these symptoms are persisting or resolved now.
The symptoms that your son has had may be related to alcohol intoxication. But its plasma level has to be above 80mg/dl to show these symptoms. He has presence of alcohol in his blood and so alcohol has to be taken into consideration in this situation. May be his brain is more vulnerable to the age ( school age, you have not told his age ). But also other diagnosis have to be excluded like a possible subarachonoid hemorrhage, possible meningitis or just migraine . Has he ever had throbbing headaches ?
Did he have fever? It would be a sign of meningitis. Also neck stiffness and headache. If the symptoms persisted a head CT scan and a lumbar puncture would be necessary to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage.
To make a proper treatment we should rule out these diagnosis. At the meantime I would recommend a lot of fluids to lower to zero alcohol plasma level and antiemetics for the vomiting.
Hope to have been helpful!
Thank you for using HCM!
Best Wishes Dr. Abaz Quka
I understand your concern.
I would like to know if these symptoms are persisting or resolved now.
The symptoms that your son has had may be related to alcohol intoxication. But its plasma level has to be above 80mg/dl to show these symptoms. He has presence of alcohol in his blood and so alcohol has to be taken into consideration in this situation. May be his brain is more vulnerable to the age ( school age, you have not told his age ). But also other diagnosis have to be excluded like a possible subarachonoid hemorrhage, possible meningitis or just migraine . Has he ever had throbbing headaches ?
Did he have fever? It would be a sign of meningitis. Also neck stiffness and headache. If the symptoms persisted a head CT scan and a lumbar puncture would be necessary to rule out subarachnoid hemorrhage.
To make a proper treatment we should rule out these diagnosis. At the meantime I would recommend a lot of fluids to lower to zero alcohol plasma level and antiemetics for the vomiting.
Hope to have been helpful!
Thank you for using HCM!
Best Wishes Dr. Abaz Quka
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