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Delusional parasitosis

Report on response to olanzapine in a case series of 04 patients

Agrawal, Mohit; Dangi, Ankit1; Yadav, Prateek

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Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India

1Department of Psychiatry, Military Hospital, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Address for correspondence: Dr. Mohit Agrawal, Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Command Hospital, Southern Command, Pune - 411 040, Maharashtra, India. E-mail: [email protected]

Received October 06, 2022

Received in revised form December 06, 2022

Accepted December 08, 2022

Industrial Psychiatry Journal ():, May 19, 2023. | DOI: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_176_22
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Abstract

Delusional parasitosis (DP) is a type of delusional disorder which is characterised by single hypochondriacal delusion in which patient believes that he/she is infested with insects/worms/parasite. The authors present a case series of four cases of DP which were assessed in the outpatient department of psychiatry of a tertiary care hospital in Western Maharashtra. The patients with DP were predominantly women around 50 years of age who were treated successfully with Tab Olanzapine and psychotherapy with favourable response.

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