Clinical features associated with alcohol withdrawal: symptoms usually peak between 10–30 hours, subsiding by 40–50 hours after the last drink
| • Hyperactivity |
| • Anxiety |
| • Tremor |
| • Mild pyrexia |
| • Tachycardia |
| • Hypertension |
| • Sweating |
| • Nausea and retching |
| • Seizures (see text) |
| • Auditory and visual hallucinations, frightening, characteristically of vermin, and last usually 5 or 6 days |