African Sleeping sickness

Introduction: African Sleeping sickness

African Sleeping sickness: Fly-borne African parasitic disease. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of African Sleeping sickness is available below.

Symptoms of African Sleeping sickness

• Red sore - at the fly bite site
• Chancre
• Fever
• Severe headaches
• Irritability

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to African Sleeping sickness:

• Sleep Disorders: Home Testing
  • Home Sleep Tests
  • Sleep Apnea Tests

Medical Textbooks Online about 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

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Wrongly Diagnosed with African Sleeping sickness?

• Misdiagnosis of African Sleeping sickness

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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Reseach about African Sleeping sickness

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Clinical Trials for African Sleeping sickness

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for African Sleeping sickness include:

• Efficacy - Safety of Eflornithine-Nifurtimox Combination Versus Eflornithine to Treat Human African Trypanosomiasis - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Eflornithine,Nifurtimox
• Randomized Clinical Trial of Three Drug Combinations for Late-Stage Gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis - This study has been terminated (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - melarsoprol 1.8 mg/kg/d, 10d + nifurtimox 15/20 mg/kg/d, 10d,melarsoprol 1.8 mg/kg/d, 10d + eflornithine 400 mg/kg/d, 7d,nifurtimox 15/20 mg/kg/d 10d + eflornithine 400 mg/kg/d 7d

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Statistics for African Sleeping sickness

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Types of African Sleeping sickness

• East African Trypanosomiasis
• West African Trypanosomiasis

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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