What is a sleep disorder? Detailed answer

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What is a sleep disorder?

Sleep disorder is a very serious disease. It is distributed mainly in Africa among people and animals. The infection is caused by parasites called trypanosomes. Their peddler is the tsetse fly, well known in many parts of central Africa.

Tsetse carries parasites when it bites a sick person or animal. Trypanosomes enter the insect's stomach and begin to multiply. Then, through the salivary glands, they enter the mouth of the insect. Here microbes develop to such forms that they can infect a person.

At the moment of an insect bite, parasites get under the skin of a person. A tiny sore appears. For the next three weeks, trypanosomes circulate in the blood. At this time, the infected person begins bouts of fever, often the skin becomes covered with a rash. The brain is slightly swollen.

In some parts of Africa, the infection ends and the patient recovers. But in Zimbabwe and Malawi, the disease is more serious. Within a year, the patient develops symptoms of brain damage. The patient experiences a severe headache, becomes excitable, uncontrollable actions appear.

Then comes the next stage. The patient becomes very calm and falls asleep. He has been unconscious for a long time. The patient is still feverish. Finally, paralysis sets in, the body is extremely exhausted, and death occurs. The cause of unconsciousness is the penetration of infection into the cerebral cortex. There may be other causes of brain inflammation.

The described disease is called "encephalitis". African sleep disease is just a severe form of encephalitis. It should be noted that the microbes that cause sleeping sickness are not transmitted by tsetse to offspring. Thus, death by bite occurs only if the tsetse fly has previously bitten a sick person or sick animal.

Author: Likum A.

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