The majority of hallucinations associated with paraphrenia are auditory, with 75 % of patients reporting such an experience; however, visual, tactile, and olfactory hallucinations have also been reported.
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Teagarden experiences what he describes as " olfactory hallucinations ", which cause him to assign certain imaginary smells to people he encounters, odors such as blood, water, tooth decay, or various chemicals.
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The suggested diagnostic criteria mean that the possibility of ORS is negated by a diagnosis of schizophrenia in which persistent delusions of an offensive body odor and olfactory hallucinations are contributing features for criterion A . However, some reported ORS cases were presented as co-morbid.
