Can sleep be induced in Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI)?

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FFI is a disease that causes a person to be unable to sleep due to some sort of genetic mutation and miscommunication in the brain. The affected person eventually dies of exhaustion and health deterioration caused by lack of sleep. To try and allow sleep for the affected person, couldn't the doctor, physician, or other aide, induce sleep? Ex. anesthetics?
Nope. The brain is incapable of sleep.

Sleep is more than being unconscious. A lot of things happen during sleep that are necessary to live. But those things do not happen in a person with FFI.  (+ info)

Is anyone interested in knowing the ways to minimize the risk of non-familial autism in your future children?

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Are you willing to read and think about this subject? If you are, there are clues and answers to be found in the scientific literature of the past 50 or more years.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021018080014.htm

http://how-old-is-too-old.blogspot.com/
Boo Boo one question, in laymens terms is, is there any history of any autoimmune disorders, such as diabetes type 1, rheumatoid arthristic, autoimmune thyroid disorder, lupus, MS in you or your husband or in your parents, aunts and uncles, sisters or brothers?
Autism risk is too complicated to put in general layman's terms possibily figuring out what happened in your son's case would necessitate e-mails back and forth and an exploration of many factors. Also there are many conditions that are now called autism to greatly complicate any discussion.
Ok, my son has Autism and let me say that those articles made no sense to me. It was all in medical terms that I had no idea what they were talking about.
When my son was born I was 27 and my husband 26. Normal ages for a first child. He weighed 8 lbs 8 oz...again, not too heavy or light. So, can you tell me why my son has it but the baby boy who was 10 lbs and a father that was 38 yrs old get it?
There has been no proof as to why children are being diagnosed w/ Autism at an alarming rate, but they are leaning towards genetics. Not the age....If you can put some more articles that speak in laymans terms then maybe a better answer will come out...  (+ info)

Is there any tests I can take to find out if I have familial Lou Gherig's (ALS)?

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Both my grandmother and my great grandmother died from Lou Gherig's disease. I don't know for sure that this means that it is genetic in my family, or it is pure coincidence. I thought I remembered reading once that you can be tested ahead of time to find out if you have the disease, even if you're not suffering from it yet. Is this true? I'm 23. How old do you have to be before you can test for something like that?
Hi Devotedly

This Dr at this website healed his LG disease. He was just on a major video called "the secret"

http://www.thehealingcode.com/home.php

Check it out.

Best of health to you  (+ info)

Familial Hemiplegic migraine?

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Hello I have Familial hemilegic migraine. If you are a person that gets these migraines or know anyone that gets these migraines, what do you or that person do for cure.
Thank You and Have a Bless day.
Try to act preventitively - get enough rest and eat a balanced diet. wear sunglasses in the bright sun!  (+ info)

what is treatment for familial hypercholesterolemia?

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you should see a doctor!!!  (+ info)

what are some mutations associated with familial skin cancer?

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biology project due tomorrow - can't find it anywhere!!!!!!!!
Look up anything on the p53 gene. A deletion in it has A LOT to do with skin cancer  (+ info)

Does Familial Hypercholesterolemia always require medication?

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Familial hypercholesterolemia almost always requires medications in addition to weight loss, diet, and exercise. This is in part true as those with this condition are predisposed to premature (age <55 for men < 65 for women) cardiovascular events (such as heart attack and stroke) but also because with newer and safer medications the goals for LDL are much lower and in this case likely to be <70 mg/dL. That having been said I would not consider pharmacologic intervention without sophisticated testing which would include not a traditional lipid profile but also direct LDL measurement, LDL and HDL particle sub types, cardiac CRP, and likely a few others.  (+ info)

What is fatal familial insomnia?

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Anybody else have familial tremor?

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its where you shake uncontrollably. like when i go to reach for something my hands shake? anybody else have this? dont you get annoyed of people saying "why are you shaking?" cause I do.
Try holding a cup of coffee. Sorry to here but a lot of people have that problem. My ex wife/girl friend shakes like that.  (+ info)

familial hypercholesterolemia?

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Just want some advice on familial hypercholesterolemia. I believe I have this condition as I first had fasting bloods taken for cholesterol when I was 15yo, 18 years ago and my cholesterol was extremely high then. I had my cholesterol level tested again in july 2006 and it not surprisingly was 7.6mmol/l.
My mother is on Simvastatin and several other family members are on statins.
I am going to see a different GP as not happy with the one I am seeing, they keep telling me to try harder and come back in 6wks-3months for another cholesterol test. I eat a low fat diet, exercise, take fishoil capsules, and I am not overweight. I commenced Cholesterol Manager tablets from a health shop 2months ago and my cholesterol has gone up again.
Could I please have some advice.
You ask a good question.
The short answer is that you should discuss this more with your local doctor.
My understanding is that at least 75% of your cholesterol is determined by your genetic makeup, so only 25% is modifiable by diet/exercise etc.
In the case of familial hypercholestrolaemia, there is a genetic disorder in the production/how the body manages cholesterol, and you are never going to get it down with diet alone. So if you truely do have this condition, you will most likely need medicine to help reduce your cholesterol.
Incidently, most people with familial hypercholestrolaemia usually have cholesterols in excess of 10 mmol/L  (+ info)

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