Hallucination may be due to excessive coffee intake( PAGE 4)

According to Dr. Lasebikan, there is a form of hallucination called hynagogic hallucination, which any normal person could experience when about to fall asleep if the individual consumes coffee or other stimulants that cause sleep disturbance. When an individual experiences this type of hallucination and continues to use coffee, it may progress to become full hallucination.

He explained that genetic factors modulate the way individuals tolerate stimulants like coffee and, as such, different people that drink coffee are bound to react differently.

Dr. Lasebikan described hallucination as one of the core symptoms of mental disorders, “Most mental disorders are recurrent and chronic Mental disorders are unique because overtime, the relations with time become fed up with endless giving of care. Of course, there are a few mental health personnel and this is further compounded by the fact that there is limited facility for psychiatric units within general hospitals to properly care for all mental problems. Above all, there is limited facility for the highly disturbed groups like the prisoners, refugees and the homeless that are mentally ill.

“Ideally homeless mentally ill persons are of great public health significance because they have double dose disadvantage of homelessness which is the cause of their mental disorder and the consequences of homelessness which include myriads of health problems, most importantly communicable diseases like hepatitis, guineaworm, river blindness, tuberculosis, cholera and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV.

“This is the reason why care of homeless mentally ill is never within a general hospital setting because such a patient easily puts other patients that are in the hospital at risk of contracting such diseases form them too. In developed countries, they have designated centres for them where they undergo thorough public health scrutiny and then after they are cleared of some of these communicable diseases, they are then reabsorbed into the psychiatrist units within the general hospital.

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