Sade Biggs, a British girl of eight years of this, should lose the good times with friends his age. Most of the time he spent in bed. The disease made him sleep disorder sleep pattern up to 30 times a day.
As quoted from page Daily Mail, Sade suffered from narcolepsy, sleep attacks disease in quite extreme levels. Patients are generally difficult to maintain a conscious state. The disease attacks at least 500 Britons. No drug can cure him.
In addition to the irresistible sleepiness during the day, the disease is also marked by katapleksi. These symptoms of sudden muscle melemasnya, such as paralyzed for a moment in some parts of the muscle or whole body muscle.
Due to the condition that, Sade could not freely play like children his age. In fact, riding a bike can be a dangerous thing, because sleep attacks can occur at any time without control.
The mother, Dana Thompson, 37, said the symptoms of narcolepsy appear since Sade was two years old. “At that time, I felt something was wrong. Sade sleep all day, and continued until the night did not wake up. He could even fall asleep while being engrossed in eating,” said Dana.
“Once upon a time, he was riding a bike behind me, and when I looked back, Sade fallen asleep on the ground. I’m really scared,” Dana added.
Sade sleep with random intervals. Not infrequently, he slept all day and all night, until losing control of his body. “I like to sleep, but it makes me difficult to do activities,” the girl said that during the last three years undergo a series of therapies and treatments at a hospital in London.
Torture was also ambushed in each bed. Sade often experience nightmares, which is a common symptom of this disease. “I saw the skeletons and witches, it seems like they really exist,” he said.
Dr Parviz Habibi, a pediatric consultant at Imperial College Healthcare, said, “Many children with narcolepsy became very angry and have other behavioral problems, including hyperactivity, attention and learning problems as well.”
