Common symptoms.

Common symptoms.
1. Fall asleep suddenly several times a day. The patient can not be forced to stay awake. Some people are very near each other 10 times a simple note is often a part that should not be talking like sleeping or eating food while driving.

2. Has muscle weakness of the body and the second is a short period of time. Since dreams occur during insertion into the moment of waking. This symptom is called CATAPLEXY from the violence. Weakness throughout the knockout. Or a small part of the body such as head or chew fall Ekhnronon Civil War. Weakness of these symptoms are often triggered by intense emotions such as laughter are excited or angry. Symptoms usually only 1-2 minutes long without feeling the symptoms as weakness to be normal.

3. Have symptoms similar to the Thai people called "ผeom" Patients with symptoms will not be able to move the body during the first 1-2 minutes while awake like paralysis. Despite the sometimes realized. Speech and movement, but it is not. Symptoms often seen a phantom. Similar to suffocation associated with This symptom is called Medical Sleep paralysis.

4. Has seen a phantom symptoms. Hear or feel strange as occurred during the time going to bed. Sometimes it was just a dream that is associated with a story called Hypnagogic hallucination. These symptoms do not need the full 4 points 2 most common item is considered sold. This disease is more common in the United States in America, about 2-18 per one hundred thousand people in Thailand are not reported, but think if you look at statistics from Japan, the Asian countries as well, it would be similar to 16-18 people. to a hundred people were found in disease rates for men and women equally. Usually starts in adolescence or early adults. Symptoms of the disease is usually very fast during the first 2-3 years of the disease. Then continue to address such as.

Suffering that has been.

1. Because the patient could not sleep for all situations. Often cause problems in the work focus was to find that being lazy. I do not work despite the intellectual growth of this segment is identical in all respects normal.

2. Patients often cause an accident or a small step to serious damage to themselves and others more easily. Such as falling chairs. Or falling asleep while driving and the therapeutic

From the above conditions. Treatment is targeted to increase the quality of life and reduce the risk of the disease. In most cases, treatment usually begins with a confirmed diagnosis before the disease course. This method of diagnosis is divided into 2 sessions.

Initially the doctor will ask the symptoms and the disease like a disease or not will then arrange for the patient to check the sleep laboratory (Sleep Study) will be meeting the patient to sleep at night in the exam rooms like the bedroom. Make it a night when the track is wired to record brain waves, breathing prone to eye movements, breathing light waves take heart. Movement of the limbs. Oxygen levels in the blood. Combined with video recording while the patient sleeps. This test is to confirm and isolate the cause of the disease than other common and may be the cause of abnormal sleepiness during the day, often more like Obstructive respiratory condition during sleep (obstructive sleep apnea) from this process if the course is clear. Medical examination often sleep during the day in the morning to confirm the diagnosis of a second. This examination is called Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) will be equipped with the same model. But to keep patients asleep briefly some 4-5 times and see if patients fall asleep faster than normal conditions with a dream, or did not happen often. If eligible, it indicates that people with this disease. To begin treatment.