Posts Tagged ‘sleeping disorders’
Deadly Familial Insomnia
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Fatal familial insomnia is the most dangerous sleep disorder. It is an inherited disorder and there is 50% possibility of an offspring inheriting this disease from his or her parents. The gene responsible for this disease has been found in just around 50 families around the world. The end result of this fatal disease is death, which occurs between 7 to 36 months from the date of onset. This disease strikes between the age of 30 and 60 years. The sufferer loses the ability to shut down at night.