Monday, August 11, 2008
I watched a documentary recently regarding fatal familial insomnia.. Its kinda of scary..
Its a genetic autosomal dominant disease. People who suffer from fatal familial insomnia suffers permanent sleeplessness. There are no treatments for it and sleeping pills doesn't work. The victim will first go through a stage of sleeplessness for about 4 months followed by hallucinations and panic attacks. Sleeping becomes impossible and victim becomes unresponsive to external stimuli. Death becomes just a matter of time.
Imagine if one of your relatives suffer from this disease. Will you dare to go for gene test to see if you have the gene of this disorder?
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