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Good luck,
Carol
This is very common and is really bad because they start to dehydrate and then the paranoia gets worse, they get weak and dizzy and their legs give out as the body looks for water to run the vital organs and takes it from legs and arms.
If she is at home with you, you need to give her lots of fluids for a few days to make sure she isn't dehydrating. The Pedialite brand that you buy for kids is good as they have ones with added vitamins and electrolytes - this is such a good item that Target & Walmart have their own copycat brand at a much lower price.
Also she could have "floaters" in her visual field. This is common in the elderly, there really isn't anything you can do about it as it is just super small particles that float around. But it can interfere with vision a bit and i bet could lead to a hallucination. LBD often have visual hallucinations - for my mom a lot of it is about how the floor looks. I've posted on this before, it's strange but comes & goes for her. Her episodes aren't as bad with Exelon.
Another option is for her doc to give her an appetite enhancer med - Megace is good for this and low on side effects except they really really want to eat. Don't let her read the labels as a lot of the info is about AIDS & cancer as Megace is a front line drug for weight gain for those diseases. Remeron is also good - it is an very old school anti anxiety med which also is a appetite stimulator. My mom is on this.
In general a 10% decrease in weight in 30 days is a critical issue for the elderly and can be a reason for emergency admission to a skilled nursing facility/NH. This was 1 of the criteria used to have my mom go from IL to NH and bypass AL.