1DPM, MD, Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam, India
2MD, Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, Assam, India
3DPM, MD, Director Professor, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
*Correspondence: alam2509@gmail.com
Online published on 30 July, 2015.
Delusional parasitosis is a disorder in which persons suffering have a firm and unshakeable belief of harbouring some parasite or worm in his/her body. In today's nosology, it has been placed under delusional disorder-somatic type in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) (297.1) and under persistent delusional disorders in the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) (F22). Existing literature has extensively described this condition to affect mainly the skin with some instances of affecting the oral mucosa and the intestine. We are reporting a rare case of delusional disorder of parasite infestation in the brain.
Hypochondriasis, Hallucinations, Risperidone, Skin
