African Sleeping sickness
African Sleeping sickness: Introduction
African Sleeping sickness: Fly-borne African parasitic disease.
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causes, and treatments of African Sleeping sickness is available below.
Symptoms of African Sleeping sickness
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Diagnostic Tests for African Sleeping sickness
- Blood tests for protozoa
- Lymph gland tests for protozoa
- CSF test for protozoa
- more tests...»
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Misdiagnosis and African Sleeping sickness
RLS sleep disorder causing night-time leg sensations often misdiagnosed: A common but relatively unknown
sleep-related disorder called Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) is often misdiagnosed.
The typical symptoms are night-time tingling, crawling, or burning sensations in the legs,
with the irresistable urge to move the legs.
This need for leg movement leads to tossing and turning, or getting up out of bed,
all of which interferes with the ability to fall asleep.
The sufferer then has the typical symptoms of sleep deprivation during the day: fatigue, tiredness,
morning headaches, irritability, poor concentration and so on.
This condition is sometimes misdiagnosed as other conditions
such as ADHD, sleep disorders, other causes of insomnia, or other causes of leg tingling.
Many patients also suffer from a related disorder called
Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD), which causes leg spasms
or other jerky movements.
See introduction to RLS or introduction to PLMD....read more »
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Causes of African Sleeping sickness
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Prognosis for African Sleeping sickness
Prognosis for African Sleeping sickness:
Good with treatment. Death within weeks or months if untreated
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Clinical Trials for African Sleeping sickness
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and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
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Definitions of African Sleeping sickness:
An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
African Sleeping sickness is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that African Sleeping sickness, or a subtype of African Sleeping sickness,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list African Sleeping sickness as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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