Archive for April, 2008

Recent studies have found that people who are suffering with narcolepsy/cataplexy are experiencing various symptoms of eating disorders like irresistible cravings for the food, binge eating, etc.

The latest study conducted in the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in Netherlands concluded this statement with their research reports.

They conducted study on 60 patients who are suffering with narcolepsy/cataplexy and several interesting facts were found on this research.

• Out of those 60 narcoleptic patients, 23.3 percent of them have the clinical eating disorder.
• Half of them i.e. 30 people are reported with the problem of craving for the food and binge eating.
• 25 percent of the people also said that they are performing binge eating for at least twice a week.
• Coming to the mental health of these people, they had some tension in their mind and felt hurry at the time of eating.

The above research makes you clear that narcolepsy is not only a sleeping disorder but it also develops eating disorders. This narcolepsy is also named as the hypothalamic disease which has a much broader profile of symptoms. Other than the above problems, your body weight will also be increased with this problem as you don’t follow the proper eating habits [Signs and symptoms of narcolepsy].

Your body’s psychic energy will be totally dependent on the way you take care of your mind and the body in the right manner.

Good maintenance of mind and body makes you to stay fit and fine where as the bad maintenance worsen the situation with several problems and pains.

According to the expert physician’s suggestions, each and every adult person must spend 8 hours of time in sleep. Good night sleep for 8 hours make the mind and body of the person active and refresh.

Generally the person is said to have sleep disorders if he is not able to sleep for 8 hours of time continuously or if frequent breaks results in his sleep. Usually, these problems will not have much impact on the starting days itself, but certainly they will create much health and psychological problems if they continue for long period of time.

Most American workers are suffering with several psychic problems as they are much under the work pressure and the work timings are not allowing them to sleep at least for 8 hours a day.

According to the latest research, it has been found that children who are suffering with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) are more likely to face several respiratory problems when compared to the normal children of the same age without OSA.

Experts say that this situation arises in children who are suffering with Obstructive Sleep Apnea because they do not contain the same airway closing as the normal children without OSA.

The study performed by jingtao huang, PhD of children’s hospital of Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania has proved some facts.

In their study, they considered 9 children who are suffering with Obstructive Sleep Apnea syndrome and 12 normal children. They conducted upper airway perception tests for both groups of children i.e. with OSAs and without OSAs.

In their tests, they found that the children who are suffering with OSA have developed several respiratory problems because they are not getting support from the protective neurologic responses where as the normal children are getting them.

Due to this problem, children who are suffering with obstructive sleep apnea had increase in their airway muscle tone as a response for the negative pressure. It also increased the breathing load or high carbon dioxide levels are taken in due to this change. Breathing high carbon dioxide levels certainly had negative effects and several lung or respiratory problems results due to this problem.