What is drowsiness? What are the symptoms of narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that is more commonly heard, and the term narcolepsy is generally not heard often in daily life, so it is easy for us to confuse narcolepsy with narcolepsy, resulting in unnecessary misdiagnosis. Although the noun interpretation seems to be similar, there are actually some differences. The same is a sleep disorder, the same is manifested as drowsiness, making people sleep restless, listless every day, ordinary people are always unable to judge whether it is narcolepsy or narcolepsy from daily performance, so if there are symptoms of drowsiness, it is recommended to consult a specialist.

Drowsiness is easy to doze off during the day, which may be caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain, and may also be caused by drinking, taking medicine, etc., which needs to go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, it is best to find out the cause, you need to use drugs rationally under the guidance of a doctor, usually pay attention to drinking more water, exercise properly, it is recommended to pay attention to sleep at night**, if you sleep badly, it is best to take soothing brain fluid, etc., which can improve sleep**.

Drowsiness is not a disease, just a manifestation. Nervous system suppression can be due to a number of reasons. For example, encephalitis, traumatic brain injury, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, hypoglycemia, cold, inflammation, etc., need to be targeted.

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There are four common symptoms of narcolepsy: 1. Cataplexy, which refers to the sudden loss of muscle tone in a fully awake state, which causes paralysis of the head or body without loss of consciousness, which can last for a few seconds or minutes; 2. Sleep hallucinations; 3. Sleep paralysis, a symptom of temporary inability to exercise when a person falls asleep or is about to wake up. It only lasts a few minutes; 4. Sleep attacks.

Falling asleep during the day, regardless of the occasion or place, such as suddenly falling asleep while eating, driving, or working. Such patients often have experience of traffic accidents or work accidents. However, patients with narcolepsy often complain of insomnia at night, which may be caused by frequent hallucinations during sleep onset or sleep paralysis Intermittent sleep at night, unable to sleep until dawn; It may also be because of excessive daytime sleepiness that interferes with sleep at night.

Although patients with onset sleepiness seem to be in a state of dazed and trying to sleep, their total sleep time of 24 hours a day is not longer than that of normal people.

The early manifestation of narcolepsy is irresistible short-term sleepiness during the day, which lasts for several minutes at each episode, and can occur multiple times a day. Cataplexy occurs due to a sudden loss of muscle tone during emotional agitation, which is commonly manifested as sudden weakness of the knee and falling to the ground, tilting the head forward or backward, and sudden loss of facial expression, etc., which is called "cataplexy". Sleep hallucinations, common auditory hallucinations, touch hallucinations, visual hallucinations, similar to dream-like experiences, but more real than dreams, some patients say that they often can't tell whether it is a dream or reality.

The symptoms of sleep paralysis are that the patient is conscious, unable to control his body except for the ability to move his eyeballs, and cannot shout or move when he wants to. When the above symptoms gradually appear in patients with narcolepsy, it is not simple narcolepsy, but narcolepsy.

1. Cataplexy, this symptom refers to the sudden loss of muscle tone in a fully awake state, which causes paralysis of the head or body without loss of consciousness, which can last for a few seconds or minutes.

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Narcolepsy is excessive daytime sleep that is not caused by lack of sleep, alcohol, drugs, medical disorders, or a mental disorder, such as depression. At present, it is unclear, but it is often related to psychological factors.

English name. hypersomnia

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Common symptoms. Drowsiness, drowsiness, memory loss of recent events, and decreased thinking ability.

Narcolepsy refers to the patient's excessive sleepiness and drowsiness, or the irresistible fall asleep to varying degrees during the day, which can be accompanied by symptoms such as inattention, memory loss, and thinking ability, which seriously affect the patient's normal life, work, and study. Narcolepsy can be caused by a variety of **, such as sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, poor sleep habits, biological rhythm disorders, psychosocial factors, or drug influences. When you find that you have drowsiness, you should seek medical attention in time, and carry out ** after clarifying ** through relevant examinations, which can generally be relieved through the adjustment of life and rest and psychology.

It refers to the fact that on the basis of ensuring sufficient sleep at night, it is easy to be sleepy during the day, and this kind of hypersomnia is called narcolepsy. The causes of narcolepsy include alcohol, drugs and other factors, which suppress the nervous system, and can also be seen in certain physical diseases, such as colds. If you have symptoms of drowsiness once in a while, it cannot be called narcolepsy.

If this phenomenon has been more than a month, almost every day or in a short period of time and seriously affects normal life, and other factors such as drugs and alcohol have been ruled out, it can be considered as narcolepsy. It is recommended to adjust your lifestyle habits first, such as regular work and rest, exercise more, improve brain vitality and cooperate with psychological adjustment to remove adverse psychological factors.

Narcolepsy is a relatively common sleep disorder, which is manifested by excessive sleep time or sleep episodes every day, and patients may have a transient state of confusion after sleep awakening, accompanied by an increased heart rate or breathing rhythm. There are many causes of narcolepsy, one is related to mental and psychological factors, such as patients being affected by bad mood, or comorbid with certain mental and psychological diseases, such as seasonal affective disorder. Second, it is secondary to other sleep disorders, such as nocturnal sleep apnea syndrome.

The third is physiological factors, such as severe malnutrition, iron deficiency anemia or obesity.

Narcolepsy mainly refers to excessive daytime sleep, so far the ** of narcolepsy has not been fully clarified, but it is definitely related to mental and psychological factors, in addition to drowsiness, it will also lead to symptoms such as lack of energy and memory loss.

Respiratory disease: airway obstruction or severe lung infection.

Tumor and other factors lead to the dysfunction of lung ventilation or blood gas exchange function, which causes the patient's blood oxygen partial pressure to decrease, carbon dioxide partial pressure to increase, and cerebral hypoxia and drowsiness.

Digestive disorders: severe hepatitis.

Cirrhosis. and other diseases, resulting in decreased liver metabolism and liver insufficiency.

, blood ammonia. and other metabolites are elevated, resulting in drowsiness.

Diseases of the endocrine system: severe hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus.

and so on, so that the patient's energy metabolism in the body is impaired, causing nervous system function damage, resulting in drowsiness.

Hematologic disorders: severe anemia.

Leukaemia. etc., the body's oxygen-carrying capacity is reduced, or malignant blood diseases invade brain tissue, causing severe hypoxia in the brain or damaging the upward reticular activation system of the brain stem, resulting in unmaintained arousal and drowsiness.

Neurological disorders: encephalitis.

Brain tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, traumatic brain injuries, etc., damage the structure and function of the brain, causing drowsiness; Others, such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy.

etc., can also cause episodes of drowsiness in patients.

Neoplastic diseases: digestive tract tumors, respiratory tract tumors, urinary system tumors, etc., which lead to metabolic disorders of the body, make brain energy metabolism disorders, and cause drowsiness in patients.

What medications may be associated with drowsiness?

If you take phenobarbital and diazepam.

Chloral hydrate. and other sedative sleeping pills, especially when the drug dose is too large, can cause drowsiness in patients.

What environmental factors may be involved in drowsiness?

Rainy, cloudy and other climatic environments, or in a dark environment for a long time, the lack of light (especially sunlight) for the central nervous system to excite and regulate the effect, easy to make the human body tired, easy to appear drowsy, if there is sleep deprivation or lack of sleep in the early stage, drowsiness symptoms may occur.

Severe electrolyte disorders, especially if sodium chloride is too high or too low, will lead to hypernatremia or hyponatremity encephalopathy, and drowsiness will occur, and further coma will occur.

Always sleeping can be related to cerebrovascular diseases, endocrine diseases, metabolic diseases, drug abuse, psychiatric diseases, etc.

1.Cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral insufficiency, cerebral infarction, anemia, cervical spine lesions compressing cerebral blood vessels, brain tumors or other central nervous system pathologies can lead to insufficient oxygen supply to the brain and drowsiness.

2.Endocrine diseases such as hypothyroidism, metabolic encephalopathy such as hepatic encephalopathy, chronic renal failure, and poisoning can cause hypoxia in the brain and cause excessive sleep.

3.Drug abuse such as benzodiazepines, opioids, anticholinergics, antihistamines, barbiturates, and other drugs can be overdosed and cause drowsiness.

4.Psychiatric disorders such as atypical depression, narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, and Klein-Levine syndrome can cause hypersomnia.

If the patient is always sleeping and symptoms persist and do not improve, they should go to the hospital promptly**.

Sleepiness, also known as narcolepsy, is a neurological disorder that can cause irrepressible sleep. These sleep stages occur frequently and occur at inappropriate times, such as when talking, eating, or driving.

Drowsiness is a physiological and pathological disease, often stay up late to sleep more often, sleep time is shorter, drowsiness and cold, insufficient blood supply to the brain, anemia, neurasthenia and so on caused by insomnia. Usually eat lightly, rest on time and don't stay up late.

People generally don't pay enough attention to drowsiness, thinking that drowsiness is just sleeping a little more, it's not a big deal, showing indifference to this, and even mistakenly thinking that sleeping more is sleeping well. If you think so, you are very wrong. In psychology, the state of "not enough" or "too much" is often regarded as an unhealthy state, such as too high and too low emotion, bulimia and anorexia, etc.

The same is true for sleep, sleeping too little – insomnia, sleeping too much – and drowsiness are considered unhealthy. If the symptoms come and go, sometimes mild and sometimes severe, then it is a sub-health state. For one should keep one's mind clear except for sleep.

Therefore, drowsiness is also an unhealthy manifestation and should be taken seriously.

Even if people who are sleepy sleep for a long time at night, they do not feel tired after waking up, and they are in a state of low alertness all day long, unable to keep up their spirits, and their brains are not clear. They work hard and are drowsy, so that they have to "race against time" to sleep when reading newspapers, watching TV, and listening to **, and they can fall asleep while sitting or lying down, and wake up as soon as they wake up, and they fall asleep again after waking up after not holding on for long. Due to the effects of drowsiness, it is sometimes difficult for them to do their daily work, let alone work creatively, which makes some white-collar workers who want to make a difference miserable.

Drowsiness is not a single isolated symptom, but may be part of other diseases, such as infectious diseases, endocrine diseases, metabolic disorders, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, the cause should be identified, and the symptomatic and causal effects should be carried out simultaneously, and only in this way can meaningful results be obtained.

Drowsiness is not a disease, it is a clinical manifestation, a disorder of consciousness, and a lesser degree of consciousness disorder.

The main manifestation of the patient is excessive drowsiness, but he can be woken up, and after waking up, he can communicate with people normally and have problems, and if he stops communicating with the patient, he can fall asleep again.

A condition in which daytime hypersomnolence or the transition time to a fully awake state is prolonged upon awakening. Patients often experience drowsiness and irresistible sleepiness regardless of the occasion.

TCM dialectical classification of narcolepsy:

In traditional Chinese medicine, the onset of this disease is mainly due to spleen deficiency, heart and liver fire, kidney qi deficiency, etc., which can be regulated by traditional Chinese medicine, and can be regulated by traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions according to different symptoms.

1) Deficiency of heart and spleen:

1.Symptoms Drowsiness, phantom before bedtime, fatigue and palpitations, pale complexion, pale moss, weak pulse.

2 Treatment: Nourish the heart and spleen.

3.If you have abdominal distention, stuffiness, poor appetite, and greasy tongue, add Poria cocos, Huoxiang, and Magnolia bark to aromatize dampness, strengthen the spleen and promote qi; (2) Deficiency of kidney yang:

1 Symptoms of drowsiness, or drowsiness, soreness in the waist and knees, chills and cold limbs, impotence, clear and long urine, frequent nocturia, pale tongue, thin white tongue, and weak pulse.

2 Treatment: Warm and replenish kidney yang.

3 Take the right to drink, if the qi is deficient and the blood is depleted, etc., add ginseng for reuse and add atractylodes and astragalus.

c) Weak temper:

1 Symptoms: Drowsiness all day long, yellowish complexion, fatigue and fatigue, insomnia and dreams, palpitations, shortness of breath, forgetfulness and irritability, pale tongue, thin white tongue, weak pulse.

2 Governing Law ; Nourish qi and blood, and rejuvenate the brain.

3 You can take the heart-nourishing soup, such as water drinking and stopping in the heart, and those with palpitations and apprehension, add Zhu Ling, betel nut, and Ze Yuan; Those who can't wake up all day long can add Suhexiang, calamus, and Yizhiren to awaken their minds with enlightenment.

4) Biliary fever and phlegm obstruction:

1 Symptoms; Drowsiness, dizziness, bitterness and dry mouth, vomiting, chest and flank stuffiness, red and yellow tongue, and the number of pulses.

2 Treatment: Clear the gallbladder and dissolve phlegm.

3 Artemisia Qinqing gallbladder decoction can be taken because of phlegm turbidity and internal resistance, qi reversal does not descend, and those who see the heart is hard and nausea is not removed, add swirling and replacing ochre decoction to benefit qi and stomach, dissolve phlegm and reduce qi; If you can't wake up, you can add Angong Niuhuang Pill to wake up your brain.