Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. People with this disorder sleep excessively at day and have sudden sleep attacks. It is typically beginning is so at age 15-25 but it can happen to any age. Some symptoms include excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, and visual hallucinations and sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is a temporary inability to move or speak while falling asleep or waking up. Lasts about a few seconds to several minutes. People with Narcolepsy have very difficult life and can be very dangerous. They can fall asleep doing any type of activity at every time of the day. The video we saw in class tells us only one day of the life of a Narcolepsy called Mohammad. He lives in a constant fight to stay awake to be able for him to make different activities and tasks. He suffers form cataplexies and narcolepsy. He can have approximately about 60 sleeps attacks per day. This makes it very difficult to do normal tasks. Common activities such as walking and eating can be extremely dangerous to the people with this type of disorder. If he is left alone he can sleep risking himself to many different dangerous or even deaths.