It turns out that everyone thinks about their own. Most people think that daytime sleepiness is sleeping sickness. In fact, everything is complicated.
Sleep apnea
Usually daytime sleepiness itself is a consequence sleep apnea. When people snore at night and their breathing stops. From this they do not have enough oxygen, and during the day they will be drowsy. And you don't have to snore. Breathing may just stop. Here it is necessary to interrogate the neighbor on the bed.
Narcolepsy
Further narcolepsy. Some people think it's just when a person suddenly passes out during the day. In fact, everything is complicated there.
Narcolepsy is when a problem in the head manifests itself as daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis, all sorts of creepy sleep-related glitches and cataplexy.
Cataplexy is when muscles are drastically weakened from laughter. A weird thing.
Sleeping sickness
This is a disease from Africa. It is carried by tsetse flies. Previously, this happened often, but now it is rare.
The fly bites the natives living in wild, remote places. A single-celled parasite enters the victim's bloodstream through the bite of a fly. The parasite is like a microscopic fish.
This creature loves to splash in our biological fluids. It swims in the lymph, dives into the blood and swims into the cerebrospinal fluid. From there, it enters the brain and causes sleeping sickness. And this also does not mean that the person was walking normally and suddenly began to sleep on the go.
The parasite terribly irritates the immune system, and therefore the victim will suffer for a year with various ailments and fluctuations temperature, until the inflammation spreads to the brain, and strange behaviors such as drowsiness begin in the afternoon.
In short, sleeping sickness is different for everyone. This is usually done by neurologists.
Sleep doctors check such patients in special laboratories, where they are left to sleep. Somnologist is not an official medical specialty, therefore pulmonologists who deal with sleep apnea and various other doctors can work in laboratories.
So if a strange sleepiness rolls over you, then start with a neurologist, and then you will see.
