Sleeping syndrome

Sleeping syndrome's disease overview

Sleeping is a chronic sleep disorder, caused by chemical imbalance in the brain. Most people suffering from hypocretin levels (a neurotransmitter that promotes algae) is low, characterized by too much daytime sleepiness and sleep can come at any time. People with sleeping width often find it difficult to wake up for a long time in any case. Sleeping can cause serious disruption in daily habits.

People with sleeping syndrome are often overtime during the day, the sleep is not controlled, which can occur at any time of the day. 

People are divided into 2 types of sleep:

  • Type 1: Sleeping evidence with temporary paralysis
  • Type 2: Sleeping evidence has no temporary paralysis

    • Contrary to the minds of some people, sleeping evidence is not related to depression, fainting, lack of sleep, convulsions disorders, or other simple conditions. can cause abnormal sleep. Sleep syndrome is a chronic condition and has no treatment. However, taking drugs and changing lifestyle can reduce symptoms. Talk to others, family, friends, teachers ... can deal with sleeping evidence

    Causes of Sleeping syndrome's disease

    The cause of sleep syndrome has not been determined exactly. However, genetics can play a certain role. Other factors that contribute to the development of sleeping signs such as stress, infection or toxic contact, ...

    Symptoms of Sleeping syndrome's disease

    Symptoms of sleeping symptoms may worsen in the first few years, and last for later. They include:

    Excessive sleepiness during the day

    Sleep syndrome is characterized by too sleepy and cannot control sleep during the day. People with sleep syndrome fell asleep without warning anywhere, at any time. For example, may suddenly be sleepy while working or talking to friends. Maybe sleep for a few minutes or half an hour and when you wake up, you feel awake, but finally feel sleepy. It may also be reduced to alertness during the day. Excessive daytime drowsiness is usually the first symptom that appears and often causes the most annoying, making it difficult to focus and affect the quality of work.

    Sudden loss of muscle tone

    The sudden loss of muscle tone is called Cataplexy, which can cause some physical changes, causing the weakness of most muscles, this condition can last a few seconds to the next few seconds. A few minutes. Suddenly, the muscle tone cannot be controlled and often caused by intense emotions, often active people such as laughter or excitement, but sometimes unexpected fear, or anger also leads to love. This situation. For example, the knee suddenly can fall down when laughing, or the head may collapse in uncontrollable. For one year, people with sleeping syndrome may have only one or two sudden stages of muscle tone, but there are also people who meet many times a day.

    Sleep is paralyzed

    People with sleeping syndrome often experience temporary impotence to move or talk while sleeping or waking up. The attacks are usually short and last one or two minutes but may be scary. Even if you can't control what happens to you at that time, you can still know about conditions and not difficult to remember it later. Paralysis when sleeping is similar to temporary paralysis often occur while Eye Movement Eye Remed - the stage of sleep that most dreams appear. During REM sleep, the patient's body will be paralyzed and temporarily immobile. However, not everyone who has paralyzed sleep is with sleep. This phenomenon is common in young people.

    Illusion

    Sleep hallucinations are called hypnagogic hallucinations, which can occur quickly in removen when starting to sleep or waking up. Because causing the feeling of selling a dream when starting dreaming, having dreams like real, can be especially vivid and scary.

    Other characteristics

    People with sleeping syndrome may have other sleep disorders, such as obstructing apnea, in which breathing begins and stops throughout the night, restless syndrome and even loss. Sleep. Those who have sleeping can also take actions such as swinging their arms, kicking their legs or screaming when their dreams at night.

    Some stages of sleep are short attacks. People with sleeping syndrome may undergo automation in a short time. For example, may fall asleep while doing a job they often do, such as texting text, driving and continuing that activity while sleeping. When they woke up, they could not remember what they did, and seemed to have done well.

    People at risk for Sleeping syndrome's disease

    Sleep syndrome is not common, only affects about 1/2000 people. The common age is from 10 years old - 25 years old begins to have symptoms of sleep.

    The factors that increase the risk of sleeping syndrome include trauma, neuropathy or genetics.

    Prevention of Sleeping syndrome's disease

    Suitable living mode is very important in managing the symptoms of sleeping.

    Join a schedule. Going to bed and waking up at the same time every day, including weekends, thereby creating a biological rhythm, making our body act as a programmed machine. 

    Schedule a schedule to go to bed at the right time: The calendar is short for a regular period of the day. Napping for about 20 minutes a day and at the end of the morning work and before starting work in the afternoon, can help refresh and reduce drowsiness for 1-3 hours. Moreover, nap will make the afternoon more awake and work more effectively. In some people, napping may need to sleep longer, but do not sleep too long because it can lead to fatigue.

    Avoid using stimulants such as nicotine in tobacco and alcohol, beer, ... using these substances, especially at night, can worsen the signs and symptoms of the syndrome. Sleeping.

    Remove bad habits: Do not use phones, laptops, watch TV for too long before going to bed. In young people, the habit of lying on the bed off the lights and then using the phone before going to bed very popular. This not only affects the vision but also interrupts the sleep cycle, harder to sleep.

    Exercise regularly: regular exercise at least 30 minutes a day, not only makes the body healthy, but also helps to feel awake during the day and sleep better at night. P>

    Diagnostic measures for Sleeping syndrome's disease

    Measures can be carried out a preliminary diagnosis of sleeping during the day based on the expression of too much and the sudden loss of muscle tone. After the initial diagnosis, the doctor may introduce to a sleep expert to evaluate more.

    For an accurate diagnosis, the doctor may ask to stay overnight at a sleep center, which undergo an in -depth analysis of sleep by a group of experts. Diagnosis and determination method The severity of sleep syndrome includes:

    Sleep history

    The doctor will ask for a detailed sleep history. Part of the history involves filling in a statistical table of drowsiness, using a series of short questions to evaluate drowsiness. For example, indicating on a numbered scale, the patient may indicate in certain situations, such as sitting down after lunch.

    Sleep diary

    may be required to hold a detailed diary of the sleep model within one or two weeks. Based on that, the doctor can compare and evaluate the relevance of the sleeping model and alertness. Normally, in addition to asking the patient to sleep, the doctor will ask to wear Actigraph, a device with a shape similar to a wrist watch that records your sleep model. P>

    Sleep research

    This method checks a range of signals while sleeping by using electrodes placed on the scalp. For this test, patients have to spend a night at a medical facility. ElectroencePhalphalograms, heart (electricity) and muscle movement (electronyogram) and eye (Electro-Culogram). This method also monitors the breath.

    Sleep delay test

    This method is to check how long will fall asleep during the day. The patient will be required to have four or five sleep, each sleep is two hours apart. Experts will perform a sleep model. People with sleeping syndrome falls into sleep easily and fast moving eyes (rem) quickly.

    These tests can also help eliminate other causes through signs and symptoms. Sleep apnea is another type of sleep disorder, which can cause too much daytime drowsiness.

    Check the concentration of hypocretin - the remedy for the remedy for the epidemic surrounding the spine. Most people with sleeping syndrome have low hypocretin levels in the brain. Take spinal fluid sampling through spinal cord detection method - needle is inserted into the spine to draw spine liquid.

    Sleeping syndrome's disease treatments

    Sleep syndrome is a chronic disease, which is often difficult to treat. This disease is often related to genetics, in addition to psychological factors also worsen the disease.

    To treat sleep syndrome can use some drugs such as:

    The central nervous system stimulates the central nervous system to help people with sleepy sleep gain awake during the day. 

    Modafinil is a priority drug because it is not an addictive stimulant, no dose increases, low doses often stimulate well. Moreover, the side effects are not common, but may include: headache, dry mouth, anorexia, nausea and diarrhea. Modafinil can increase blood pressure at high doses.

    methylphenidate or other stimulants, these drugs are effective, but they can cause unwanted effects such as fast, stressful and addictive heart. Serented Serotonin inhibitors have norepinephrine reabsorption that can help regulate sleep and mood. They alleviate the symptoms of sudden loss of muscle tone, hallucinations and paralysis hypnagogic sleep. But the unwanted effect is to reduce libido, orgasm is delayed, but this side effect will decrease over time. Digestive, restless, insecure issues.

    Triple -round antidepressants can paralyze sleep and hallucinations. Besides, side effects such as constipation, urinary retention and dry mouth.

    sodium oxybate (xyrem) helps improve night sleep, usually in mild sleep. At high doses, it can also help control daytime drowsiness.  There are two doses, one dose when going to bed and one dose up to four hours later. It may take 2-3 months to achieve its full effect, although the benefits will be clear early. Xyrem may have serious side effects, such as nausea, bedwetting and badwalking. A too high dose can lead to coma, difficult respiration and death.

    In addition, if the patient has problems such as hypertension, diabetes must use medication, it is necessary to notify the doctor to see the interaction with drugs to treat sleep.

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