The girl suffers from a rare disease that causes her to sleep for weeks.
Syndrome Kleine-Levin syndrome, Sleeping Beauty - a rare neurological disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of excessive sleepiness, and behavioral disorders.Patients sleep most of the day (up to 18 hours, and sometimes longer), waking only to eat and go to the toilet;become irritable or aggressive, if they were not allowed to sleep.In patients experiencing confusion, disorientation, fatigue, apathy.Patients are not able to go to school or work, take care of yourself.Characterized by cognitive impairment, possible amnesia for the event, hallucinations, dreamlike state.Most patients complain that everything around seems to be "out of focus", sensitive to noise and light.Reason syndrome Kleine-Levine unknown. (Wikipedia)
have 20-year-old British women Beth Goutierre from Stockport is a disease.It began at Beth when she was 16 years old.
When is the next episode of excessive sleepiness, but it happens about every five weeks, she can sleep from one to three weeks, and it requires 24-hour care of her.Even waking Goutierre can remain in a state close to the infant, is confused and does not distinguish reality from dream.
In the world of this disorder affects about 1,000 people.70% of them - men.Causes of the syndrome are still unknown, and there is no cure for it.
Says that it's going, she Beth:
"Half of life I spent in bed. Most people identity occurs in adolescence, when you study in college at the university, starting to work. Then you realize whata. I do stripped. The syndrome takes all that. My life goes on standby. I remember only fragments, but the whole life disappears from my mind.
mother Beth, Janine, she said that her daughter can not say, "We will dotomorrow, we'll do it next week. "We are doing everything now, at a time when it feels good, because it may be the only opportunity to do it."
syndrome had a devastating effect on Beth, depriving it of the possibility to leave home to go to university.For syndrome often plunges her into a state of the infant, and at such moments the mother Beth needs supervision.
In such situations, people affected by the syndrome may be disoriented, irritable, and have a tendency to excessive overeating.
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