Always feeling sleepy? Be careful, it is a health signal from your body

I slept for 8 hours the night before.

The next day, I was still groggy and exhausted.

Here is a reminder for everyone

If you feel sleepy for a long time, you should pay attention to it.

Frequent daytime sleepiness

It may be a healthy signal from the body

4 Health Signs Hidden Behind Drowsiness

0 1 Feeling sleepy after a meal: Be careful, it may be the insulin that is causing the problem

Even though you have gotten enough sleep, you still feel sleepy after eating. This may be related to the large amount of insulin secretion. Under normal circumstances, when the glucose in food is absorbed by the human body, insulin will be secreted to help control blood sugar. At this time, insulin will inhibit the decomposition of protein, causing people to feel sleepy. In addition, insulin will also promote the entry of potassium ions from the blood into cells. If you are in a state of mild hypokalemia, your body will also feel tired and sleepy, which is related to the increased secretion of insulin.

0 2 Feeling sleepy at work: affected by these 3 factors

Feeling sleepy as soon as you get to work may be related to your lifestyle. Many people play crazy games on weekends, which will lead to overdraft of energy and physical strength. They also play games or engage in other entertainment activities all night long. Such irregular lifestyle will affect sleep, and lack of sleep will affect the work of the next day. This is normal.

It may also be related to diet. Malnutrition can lead to symptoms such as lack of energy and general fatigue. Unhealthy eating habits can directly affect physical health. Not paying attention to nutritional balance, often eating fried food or junk food, or excessive dieting and irregular eating can easily lead to malnutrition.

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Feeling sleepy at work may also be related to disease factors, such as chronic liver and kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, especially when the blood sugar level of diabetes is relatively high, which will affect the metabolic system of the whole body, further causing poor blood circulation, thus causing the phenomenon of feeling sleepy at work.

0 3 Studying sleepiness: This is a conditioned reflex

If you insist on studying when you are tired, your body will be unable to resist the fatigue and will easily feel sleepy. If this happens frequently, it will form a conditioned reflex of feeling sleepy as soon as you pick up a book.

suggestion:

1. Don’t read right after eating;

2. Don’t read when you are sleepy;

3. Don’t read while lying down.

0 4Drowsiness while driving: Poor sleep at night

People who often feel sleepy and unable to concentrate while driving, snore and have irregular breathing at night need to rule out sleep apnea.

In addition, driving after eating too much can easily cause drowsiness. After eating a lot, in order to promote digestion, blood will gather in the stomach to increase blood circulation in the stomach. At this time, the blood supply to the brain will be reduced, which will make people feel drowsy.

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You can avoid driving in the early morning and around 3 pm. Drink a cup of coffee half an hour before driving and lower the temperature in the car. If the air in the car is not circulating and the temperature is just right, the driver will naturally feel tired.

Always sleepy, be careful of getting this disease!

0 1Snoring does not mean you sleep well. Beware of invisible killers that may kill you.

Occasional snoring has little impact on health. However, if you snore every day, pause for a while in the middle of snoring, or even wake up from snoring, or feel sleepy, dizzy, weak, slow to react, and have memory loss when you wake up during the day, then you should be careful about whether you have a sleep disorder - sleep apnea syndrome.

Frequent sleep apnea and hypoventilation lead to hypoxia and carbon dioxide retention, which may accumulate over time and cause cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease, nervous system diseases such as center and Parkinson's disease, urinary system diseases such as chronic kidney disease, uremia, male infertility, impotence, digestive system diseases such as gastroesophageal reflux and liver damage, and also endanger the respiratory, endocrine, ear, nose and throat, and blood systems, which can be said to be "harmful" to the whole body.

Especially patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity, hypothyroidism, etc. are more likely to suffer from sleep apnea. Data show that only one-third of type 2 diabetes patients have normal sleep breathing indicators.

0 2 Your feet feel like they are bitten by ants. Be careful of this kind of sleep disorder

Every time when I am about to fall asleep, my legs always feel an indescribable discomfort and I have to move around to feel comfortable. I should be careful about whether it is restless legs syndrome.

Patients with restless legs syndrome experience repeated sudden and indescribable discomfort in their lower limbs, similar to itching, ants crawling, and insects crawling. The discomfort can only be temporarily relieved by moving the limbs. The discomfort reappears and worsens when they sit down or prepare to go to bed, leading to difficulty falling asleep and reduced sleep quality.

0 3 If you step on the bed or hit the person next to you, you may be sick

If someone shouts and screams in his sleep, stomps on the bed, or even attacks the person next to him without realizing it, you should be careful about whether he or she is suffering from rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder.

These abnormal behaviors are closely related to the patient's anxious dreams, such as dreams of being chased or persecuted. Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder is more common in the elderly aged 50-70 years old, more common in men than in women. Aging is an obvious factor in the development of the disease.

It is understood that the diagnosis of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder requires the help of full-night polysomnography. Polysomnography is considered the "gold standard" for sleep detection. It can monitor EEG, EEG, EMG, EEG, blood oxygen, airflow, body position, chest and abdominal movement, and limb movement, etc. It is very important for diagnosing and recording the severity of sleep disorders.

Snoring frequently while sleeping and feeling sleepy during the day

After middle age, people are prone to a disease called "obstructive sleep apnea syndrome".

As we age, fat cells gradually accumulate in the soft tissues of the respiratory tract, causing pressure and blockage of the respiratory tract during sleep, resulting in partial or complete blockage of the airway.

Family members will find that the patient's snoring pauses intermittently during sleep, and after an interval of ten to dozens of seconds, it ends with a heavy breath. After that, the patient starts snoring again, but soon, this breathing pause occurs again. In severe cases, the patient may hold his breath hundreds of times in one night.

As a result, sleep becomes intermittent and the body cannot get sufficient rest. Although the sleep time is sufficient, the sleep quality is poor and you feel drowsy the next day.

In addition to daytime sleepiness, people with this type of "narcolepsy" also have the following characteristics:

1. Physical characteristics: patients are often stout or obese, with short and thick necks.

2. There is a long history of snoring, and family members notice that the snoring has stopped.

3. The frequency of urination at night increases, the urine volume increases, and the sleep continuity is poor.

4. When you wake up in the morning, you feel bitter in the mouth and dry throat, dizziness and fatigue, and sleep cannot relieve the physical fatigue.

5. The daytime working state is poor, it is difficult to concentrate, memory loss, it is easy to fall asleep in meetings and lectures, and when busy, I feel lack of energy and get angry easily.

6. The proportion of patients with concurrent hypertension, diabetes, or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases increases.

The pace of life in modern society is fast. A sleepy brain cannot cope with the large amount of information in daily life, nor can it perform well in social situations.

Therefore, in recent years, various types of narcolepsy have received increasing attention from the medical community. If you or your family members have symptoms of daytime sleepiness, do not take it lightly. Ask a doctor in time for timely diagnosis and treatment.

Source: Chongqing Tianji Network Co., Ltd.

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