According to foreign media reports, Klein-Levin syndrome, also known as periodic sleepiness and pathological hunger syndrome. This disease is also called "sleeping beauty syndrome". Although it has a fairy-tale name, it is not as romantic as a fairy tale.
Beth Goodier, a 20-year-old girl from stockport, Manchester, England, was diagnosed with this disease.
Go back to infancy
It is said that patients with "sleeping beauty syndrome" will have uncontrollable paroxysmal sleep, accompanied by unconsciousness, abnormal behavior, overeating and other symptoms. Experts have not been able to explain clearly what caused the disease.
Beth Gutierrez was diagnosed with this rare disease at the age of 16. Usually this disease occurs in adolescence, and its impact will not be clear until 10 to 15.
When she is not sick, Beth Gutierrez will share her illness on her blog, and sometimes upload videos she took when she woke up to the website.
In order to take care of her daughter, Gutierrez's mother Jenny quit her job. Jenny said that her daughter slept most of the time, and then she lay on the sofa or watched TV after waking up.
She said that she should cherish every minute when her daughter is awake, because she never knows when her daughter will wake up next time.
At the same time, Gutierrez could not apply for university because of "sleeping beauty syndrome".