Nation Media The Hearthbeat Feature on Narcolepsy – The sudden sleep disorder. Shedding Light on Narcolepsy: A Comprehensive Look at Sleep Disorders in Kenya
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Toro ni kindu gia bata muturire-ini wa mundu, kuona hindi iria wakoma ciiga ciothe cia mwiri ni ihotaga kuhuruka na igakorwo iri na hinya na ugima mwega wa mwiri. Kuringana na honge cia ugima wa mwiri thiinii wa thi mundu agiriirwo gukoma toro wa mathaa manana oro muthenya niguo akorwo na riri na ugima mwega…
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Narcolepsy: Hali inayokufanya ulale kila wakati Kulala ni jambo la kawaida, lakini utamchukulia vipi mtu anapopatwa na usingizi wa ghafla. Hili ni tatizo la kiafya linalojulikana kama Narcolepsy. Kwa kawaida binadamu hulala kuanzia masaa ya usiku , japo kuna wengine ambao kutokana na kazi hulala mchana. Watch Video: BBC Swahili Narcolepsy Feature Lakini hebu tafakari…
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Narcolepsy is a rare sleep disorder which affects one in every 3,000,000 people worldwide, including here in Kenya. Some of narcolepsy’s key symptoms are excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep attacks, sudden micro sleeps, and disrupted nighttime sleep. People living with Narcolepsy and those who remain undiagnosed especially in Kenya/Africa under go stigma because of the Excessive…
School nurses are pivotal to a successful school program designed to identify students with uncontrollable sleepiness and ensure they are properly evaluated. School nurses are needed to educate teachers, psychologists, special education personnel and other school administrators about narcolepsy and its effect on a student’s ability to learn. Individualized accommodations can be made. School nurses…
Have you ever heard of narcolepsy? Well, that condition has become part and parcel of the life of one Edward Karungu. The life of the form four student at Kirimara High School in Karatina continues to be characterized by a permanent and overwhelming feeling of sleepiness and fatigue, two years on. Edward was diagnosed with narcolepsy … a chronic disorder of the central nervous system, characterized by the brain’s inability to control the sleep – wake cycle. It is a cycle that our reporter Sally Mbilu reports on after spending a day with Edward, a teenager who in his own words says “great men are known in times of crisis”
Ungiona mundu agicunga agithii na njira ri ungiciria atia? I hihi niui ni kuri murimu wa toro?murimu uyu wa toro uria uikaine na githungu ta narcolepsy ni wa mwanya tondu toro unyitaga mundu hindi oro yothe ,gutekumakania uria areka kara haria ari.muthoni wa mukiri niararaniirie na amwe a aria mari na murimu uyu na niaratumenyithia…
A girl from Nakuru’s st Georges Muthaiti academy, Jane Wachera registered good performance in last years K.C.P.E even having diagnosed with Narcolepsy for six years. Wachera scored 347 marks out the possible 500 in her Kenya certificate of primary education exams she says she fell short of her target mark by only 3 marks.
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Mar
Below lies a very emotional Poem by Mercy Chemwa who is a student Living with Narcolepsy her in Kenya. The poem only gives us at a glance what living with Narcolepsy truly is/means.Mercy is Thankful to her mum who has been the only one who understood her and still loves her unconditionally. What can we…
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