Why do women become sleepy?

Many people know about the symptoms of insomnia and the causes of it, but few people know about the disease of sleeplessness. There are many reasons for sleepiness in daily life, especially many people want to sleep for no reason in the afternoon. In fact, these are the symptoms of sleepiness, especially for women. So what is sleepiness?

7 common types of narcolepsy

1. Insufficient sleep syndrome

Daytime sleepiness caused by lack of sleep is the most common disease among all causes of hypersomnia. Due to the development of industry and commerce today, some people need to go out for social activities at night after work, and go home to sleep in the middle of the night. They still have to go to work as usual the next morning, causing chronic sleep deprivation and daytime drowsiness. However, most people usually make up for the lack of sleep during holidays. In addition, some truck drivers often work too long hours and lack of sleep, which makes them prone to traffic accidents. According to statistics, college students in the United States today generally suffer from lack of sleep, which affects their studies.

2. Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a neurological disease caused by malfunction of the sleep-wake center in the brainstem, resulting in four main symptoms: excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and vivid hypnagogic hallucinations.

The excessive sleepiness symptom of narcolepsy is falling asleep suddenly in inappropriate places during daily activities during the day, such as eating, driving, and working. It is common to see such patients having experienced several traffic accidents or work accidents. However, patients with narcolepsy often complain of insomnia at night. This may be due to frequent hypnagogic hallucinations or sleep paralysis, which causes intermittent sleep at night and inability to sleep through the night; it may also be because of excessive daytime sleepiness, which interferes with sleep at night. For people with narcolepsy, the total sleep hours in a 24-hour day are no longer than those of normal people.

The causes of sleepiness have been introduced almost all the time. After understanding the causes of sleepiness, you must find ways to avoid them. For example, if sleepiness is caused by lack of sleep, you should try to rest early at night and ensure your sleep quality so that you can stay energetic during the day. Otherwise, you will feel lethargic all day long.