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Kidney infection and sudden confusion

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grace50435
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Hi

My mum was taken into hospital last week with kidney stones. They gave her gas and air and morphine and when she was scanned they discovered a bad kidney infection. She started to lose blood so they did an emergency kidney stent. She has been in a lot of pain and has been given morphine. For the past 4 days she's been very confused. She has never had any issues like this before and at 75, just a few days before she was running around doing loads of things. I'm a bit concerned now and I spoke to the nurse on her unit who said it could be a water infection or it could be the drugs. It's difficult for my mum though. She doesn't know what time/day it is, she's repeating herself and told me she's seeing strange faces and people in her room,

Anyone heard of anything like this before with a kidney infection?

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