A woman whose body collapses each time she laughs

People are laughing with nature when they are fun or interesting, but it seems there are women who are suffering from a pain that makes me laugh. What I will introduce this time is the symptoms that Kay Anderson (20 years old) is facing. It seems to have developed at the age of 15, and there seems to be suffering now without clear treatment. Let's see what kind of symptoms it is.

Details are from the following.Student collapses every time she laughs - Telegraph

Although it is a medical condition that various symptoms come out due to high emotional expressions such as cataplexy (emotional weakness attack) such as "laughter, joy, excitement, surprise, anger, shame, fear", in her case a weakness phenomenon of muscles occurs, It seems to literally collapse. When the emotion rises, it gets paralyzed for several minutes and it becomes state where it can not move. However, hearing is functioning normally, and he seems to be able to hear what is going around. She seems to have a symptom of cataplexy more than 40 times a day, seems to have a very painful life. Kei is an extreme example, it seems rare to have symptoms by laughing.

Kay is also a kind of cataplexyNarcolepsyThose that suddenly fall asleep without any premonition saying that it is falling aside. Approximately 30,000 people in the UK suffer from this narcolepsy, 70% of which have catarphexis also developed.

Although it is still difficult to recover without exact cause and treatment, Kei is now visiting an expert in sleep disorder at Leicester General Hospital and wants that new medicine can give her a normal life. It is.