My Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in November 2010 and while he is getting worse he is not too bad at the moment. He still lives at home with my Mum and knows who we all are. We can have a conversation with him, when he is in the mood, but his short term memory is terrible. While he is still able to walk his mobility is poor and he needs a zimmer frame in the house and a wheelchair if we are going out. He is extremely easy going and there is no aggression.
During the week he had shown some signs of slightly increased confusion and smelly urine, so on Friday I had taken a urine sample to the doctors to be sent for tests. In the mean time the doctor had prescribed antibiotics for a UTI.
On Saturday he had an episode which resulted in him being admitted to hospital. I got a phone call from my Mum saying Dad wasn't talking to her. When I went down he couldn't speak and was just moving his head from side to side. It was as if he could hear but couldn't understand what was said to him. He couldn't walk because he didn't know how to move his feet, if you pushed his legs he would move his feet. He did not know who we were. He was then sick several times, including in the ambulance.
The hospital started him on intravenous antibiotics. They took bloods, listened to his chest and did a chest x-ray and all came back clear. The urine sample from the doctors has also come back clear. He had 3 days of antibiotics and is now back to his normal level. The hospital said he doesn't appear to have had an infection and they think it was just a progression of his Alzheimer's.
Has anyone else experienced this and is it a deterioration? It's just if it is a progression would you expect him to go back to his normal level of confusion after antibiotics?
During the week he had shown some signs of slightly increased confusion and smelly urine, so on Friday I had taken a urine sample to the doctors to be sent for tests. In the mean time the doctor had prescribed antibiotics for a UTI.
On Saturday he had an episode which resulted in him being admitted to hospital. I got a phone call from my Mum saying Dad wasn't talking to her. When I went down he couldn't speak and was just moving his head from side to side. It was as if he could hear but couldn't understand what was said to him. He couldn't walk because he didn't know how to move his feet, if you pushed his legs he would move his feet. He did not know who we were. He was then sick several times, including in the ambulance.
The hospital started him on intravenous antibiotics. They took bloods, listened to his chest and did a chest x-ray and all came back clear. The urine sample from the doctors has also come back clear. He had 3 days of antibiotics and is now back to his normal level. The hospital said he doesn't appear to have had an infection and they think it was just a progression of his Alzheimer's.
Has anyone else experienced this and is it a deterioration? It's just if it is a progression would you expect him to go back to his normal level of confusion after antibiotics?
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