For the past week I have been with my dad in the hospital. He has a home health care nurse that checks on him and noticed his blood pressure was low and recommended he go to the emergency room. He was there all day and his blood pressure was OK but they saw a small amount of fluid in his lungs and gave an IV antibiotic. No big deal, and he was released to go back home.

The next day he was seeing birds in his house, I went to investigate and he was hallucinating. It was Sunday and we opted to take him to our house and call the doctor the next morning. The hallucinations got better then much worse and more vivid.

Looking for a cause we discovered Meditations a person has been taking all their life, the body can abruptly become sensitive to (like an allergic reaction) as well as drug interactions.

Here’s the part you should know…. (the needle in the haystack)

Older people 80’s and so, antibiotics can cause ammonia levels to increase in the blood stream and cause hallucinations. This can be more acute in persons that are diabetic (even if WELL controlled). The hallucinations will continue until the ammonia is flushed from the system.

Last week my 82 year old dad was living alone, driving, handling finances, and was up on current affairs. The past few days he has hallucinated, been hospitalized, called 911 from the hospital several times reporting he was about to be murdered, and a number of other paranoid visions as well as being hard to control. Today, still weak, can name all the members of the senate, what is real, what is not, and recite his medications with times and dosages. He knows he was hallucinating but still remembers every detail as if it ACTUALLY happened.

Be AWARE of antibiotic side effects and old people- I would have never dreamed of that, and NOW know it happens FREQUENTLY.