Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-22dnz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T08:57:51.424Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Successful Treatment of Chronic Delusional Parasitosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Carolyn Mitchell
Carolyn Mitchell*
Affiliation:
formerly Winterton Hospital, Sedgefield, Stockton-on-Tees; currently Francis Dixon Lodge, Towers Hospital, Gipsy Lane, Humberstone, Leicester LE5 0TB
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A case of delusional parasitosis is presented in which a patient with classic symptoms of six years' duration responded to pimozide. Similarly chronic cases may be responsive to pimozide.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 556 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1989 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Edwards, R. (1977) Editorial. British Medical Journal, i, 790–791.Google Scholar
Lindskov, R. & Baadsgaard, O. (1985) Delusions of infestation treated with pimozide: a follow-up study. Acta Dermato-Venereologica (Stockholm), 65, 267–270.Google Scholar
Lyell, A. (1983) Delusions of parasitosis. British Journal of Dermatology, 108, 485–499.Google Scholar
Munro, A. (1978) Monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis manifesting as delusional parasitosis. Archives of Dermatology, 114, 940–943.Google Scholar
Munro, A. (1988) Monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 153 (suppl. 2), 37–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reilly, T. M. (1988) Delusional infestation. British Journal of Psychiatry, 153 (suppl. 2), 44–46.Google Scholar
Reilly, T. M., Jopling, W. H. & Beard, A. V. (1978) Successful treatment with pimozide of delusional parasitosis. British Journal of Dermatology, 93, 457–459.Google Scholar
Reilly, T. M., Batchelor, D. H. (1986) The presentation and treatment of delusional parasitosis: a dermatological perspective. International Clinical Psycho pharmacology, 1, 340–353.Google Scholar
Tullet, G. L. (1965) Delusions of parasitosis. British Journal of Dermatology, 77, 448–455.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.