Psychotherapy is often used in the treatment of narcolepsy, which can remove the negative psychological factors related to the onset, avoid mental stimulation and help patients establish normal life rules. In addition, small doses of psychotropic drugs, such as amphetamine and methylphenidate, can be given and applied under the guidance of a doctor when necessary.
Do men also have periodic sleepiness?
We are "What's with the menstrual drowsiness?" Among them, we discuss the symptoms of women's periodic sleepiness changing with menstrual cycle. Do men also have such symptoms? This disease does exist in clinic. This disease is similar to narcolepsy, but it has its own characteristics and appears periodically. The sleep time in the onset stage is obviously prolonged, generally more than 9 hours, and there is still drowsiness during the day. A period is about 20 days, and then everything will be like ordinary people. You can wake up quickly when you are stimulated when you sleep, and you can wake up automatically when you urinate. If you can sleep for a while during the day, your drowsiness can disappear temporarily. In addition to sleepiness, this person's consciousness is often unclear, and he has to stop studying or working when he has an attack. The onset age is mostly in the teens. At first, it may be because of overwork or a cold, and then it will appear periodically without any inducement. It may happen several times a year. Some people can recover by themselves around the age of 20 to 30.
At present, there is no ideal treatment for this kind of periodic narcolepsy. It has been reported that lithium carbonate, a psychotropic drug for the treatment of mania, can be effective, about 400 mg a day, taken continuously. When lithium carbonate is used to treat nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, burnout, fatigue, thirst, polyuria, etc. It will appear at the beginning of medication, and these symptoms will disappear within one or two weeks after starting medication. It is worth noting that the safety range of lithium carbonate is very narrow. When the drug concentration in the blood reaches a certain level, there will be poisoning symptoms, such as consciousness disorder, slurred speech, muscle tremor, convulsion, coma, mental disorder and so on. There is no specific antidote, so we can only stop taking medicine immediately and treat the symptoms. Therefore, the use of lithium carbonate treatment, must be under the guidance of a doctor, never self-medication. This is just introduced to people as common sense of treatment.
What drowsy diseases are teenagers prone to?
We know that people's psychological activities have two processes: excitement and inhibition, which alternate and balance each other. When the cerebral cortex is excited, people are awake; When in the process of inhibition, people are sleepy and fall asleep. The cerebral cortex is repeated along the process of "excitement-inhibition-excitement", which makes people have regular sleep rest and work and study. The time a person needs to sleep is gradually reduced with age. Generally speaking, it is enough for teenagers to sleep 8 ~ 10 hours every night. However, although some teenagers sleep a lot at night, they still want to sleep during the day. Especially in class, I often fall asleep because I can't resist drowsiness. This may be a common morbid sleep phenomenon among teenagers. There are two main types of adolescent periodic bulimia, narcolepsy and narcolepsy.
Teenagers suffer from periodic bulimia and narcolepsy, especially boys. At the time of onset, children are sleepy all day, don't think about food, and sometimes force them to sleep with food in their mouths. This situation usually lasts about 1 week, and then suddenly "wakes up". After waking up, I was refreshed, obviously hungry, and wolfed down my food. At this time, the child's mental activities are all normal, and there are no obstacles to sleep and study. But at the same time next month, the old disease recurred, repeating the scene of last month and healing itself a week later. This happens month after month every year, bringing endless pain to children and their families.
Narcolepsy is also common in teenagers aged 10 ~ 20, mainly because the level of alertness of children is low when they are awake. This situation is particularly prominent in summer afternoons. The performance is that at the beginning, there were waves of sleepiness that repeatedly hit and gradually increased. Although I tried to resist, I finally dozed off. The length of sleep varies from a few minutes to more than ten minutes, and the sleep is not deep and it is easy to be awakened. After waking up, I felt a brief clear feeling in my brain. In this case, I can have multiple attacks every day.
To sum up, adolescent periodic bulimia and narcolepsy are pathological manifestations. The reason is generally believed to be the abnormal function of hypothalamus, but it may also be related to organic diseases such as tumor, inflammation and trauma of hypothalamus. Therefore, when the above-mentioned sleep disorders occur, teenagers should go to the hospital for nervous system examination in time, and can take ritalin, amphetamine and other central stimulants for treatment after eliminating the organic lesions of hypothalamus.