Technology channels () message: a year in the last five years man has more than half a year does not sleep, and prior to that, in his family for three generations, has been nearly 10 people in the period from 20 to 50-year-old suffering from this kind of "unknown" strange disease and died. Recently, Henan province people's Hospital, Department of Neurology-confirmed his suffering from a rare fatal familial insomnia.
The man from January onwards the sudden appearance of sleep disorder, sometimes shallow sleep, sometimes convulsions of jitter, and also do some incredible action. For example, his arms waving in the air, like what is caught and then pulled it into the mouth, woke up he himself doesn't know.
After a night so "heavy physical labour," the day he listlessly, some sleepiness, but not sleep, hands kept scratching in the body, legs, back, left a deep scratches and a low-grade fever, cognitive impairment and mild mental abnormality, and sometimes even their homes also touched.
After the occurrence, the man and his family exception panic. Originally, this strange disease has been overshadowed by the dark half a century of his family, three generations have been robbed of nearly 10 million lives. This man had to many hospitals, but doctors have not seen such a patient, don't know his end is what disease. With the condition of the master and of a frightful diagnosis in physician-in-mind-fatal familial insomnia, and imaging and fully supported this decision.
From 1986, Italy discovered the first case of fatal familial insomnia so far, the world's total reported 27 pedigrees 82 cases. In 2004, Hubei Xiehe Hospital have discovered the first patients in China, but soon died. The man was such a huge ill families, in our country also unprecedented, also very rare in the world.
According to experts, the disease is autosomal disease, genetic diagnosis is most compelling, the treatment is currently no clinical experience can draw upon.
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