"The cold night of the golden land consumes fine wine, and the jade people rely on the east wind in the spring." As the climate gets warmer, people often feel sleepy, tired, and drowsy, which is called spring sleepiness.
What's going on with spring sleepiness?
1. Seasonal factors
The phenomenon of "spring sleepiness", that is, the temperature rises in the spring, the blood supply on the surface of the body increases, and the blood supply to the brain decreases accordingly; the hot climate in the summer and summer seasons is easy to hurt and consume gas, coupled with the hot and humid body's yang qi, which is easy to cause drowsiness.
2. Environmental factors
Indoor air convection is not smooth, or long-term use of air conditioning, the content of carbon dioxide and other gases in the air is too high, oxygen is relatively insufficient, easy to make the brain hypoxia lead to drowsiness.
3. Physical factors
People with the following constitutions are prone to drowsiness symptoms, such as qi deficiency, yang deficiency and phlegm wetness.
4. Poor living habits
Lack of regularity in life, often turning day and night upside down, or insufficient sleep time at night, poor sleep quality, often between half asleep and half awake. There is too little activity during the day, the blood circulation function is relatively weakened, and the brain tissue ischemic and easy to be tired and sleepy. Or eat irregularly, like to eat fat and sweet taste, causing spleen deficiency and wetness. Or malnutrition, decreased energy intake, brain marrow loss and cause drowsiness.
5. Menstrual drowsiness
Some women will feel sleepy and sleepy before menstruation, mostly caused by spleen deficiency and drowsiness, lack of qi and blood, or loss of kidney sperm.
6. Drowsiness in the elderly.
If the elderly live a lonely, monotonous life, accompanied by poor physical strength, etc., they are prone to drowsiness.
What is the "fake" spring sleepiness?
1. Diabetes
Because the blood glucose of diabetic patients is higher than normal, a large amount of sugar is excreted from the urine, which will cause physical decline, mental malaise, decreased oxidative stress of the central nervous system, causing drowsiness, and even the chance of daytime sleepiness is nearly twice that of others. In addition, drowsiness also occurs when diabetes develops into diabetic ketoacidosis or diabetic hyperosmolar coma.
2. Anemia
Spring sleepiness can also be caused by anemia. Anemia can occur at any age, and the most common and earliest symptoms are fatigue, drowsiness, and may also be accompanied by dizziness, headache, tinnitus, dizziness and other symptoms.
3. Heart problems
Although there are different types of heart disease, they can all cause poor blood circulation, causing metabolic waste products (mainly lactic acid) to accumulate in the tissues, thereby stimulating nerve endings and making people feel tired.
4. Stroke
It has been reported that more than 70% of stroke patients yawn frequently 5 to 10 days before the onset of the disease. If there are high risk factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes, and frequent and continuous yawning, accompanied by symptoms such as limb numbness, weakness, dizziness, headache, slurred speech, and slow response, this may be caused by the nervous system and cerebrovascular diseases.
5. Chronic liver disease
Patients with liver disease often present with drowsiness, and if drowsiness and rest are difficult to alleviate, accompanied by symptoms such as dry eyes, pain in both ribs, and loss of appetite, it is likely to be a manifestation of liver disease and require active further examination in the hospital.