Narcolepsy is Not Insomnia

Narcolepsy is a problem of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS). A victim normally will fall asleep during the wrong times of day. However what most people don't realize is the victim is undergoing troubled nocturnal sleep. Someone that sees a narcoleptic at night might accidentally diagnose them as an insomniac. At the beginning stages of narcolepsy, a person normally experiences EDS and further symptoms can develop months or years later to include cataplexy and sleep paralysis. Cataplexy is when a person looses all control of their muscles and yet stays awake during the period. Sleep paralysis is when a person begins to fall asleep or awakes and the brain awakes but the body has not; leaving the person unable to move.

About Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome

Thank you very much for visiting Sleeping Disorders 365 tonight! Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is a syndrome happens when someone cannot fall asleep before 2. A.M. and have a very hard time getting up early.

The biggest problem for patients with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is that they have trouble going about their lives early in the morning.

Someone who has the syndrome may end up doing poorly in school or losing their job. Often times these patients think they are suffering from insomnia. Patients with DSPS are often able to get enough sleep, but their sleep patterns may differ from many people.

List of Sleeping Disorders - Narcolepsy in Children

Thank you for visiting Sleeping Disorders 365 tonight! There is a long list of sleeping disorders that affect children. There is a really interesting article that was written about narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder that affects children during the day.

The article was written by Pauline McInnes and can be found by visiting www.telegraph.co.uk/digitallife/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2000/11/16/ecnsleep16.xml.

It talks about how scientists are trying to find an answer to the disorder and have begun to conduct studies on children who suffer from narcolepsy. I hope you will definitely read the article and if you think your child may suffer from narcolepsy I hope this has been very helpful.