As we all know, sleep has an irreplaceable importance for health, and only in the case of adequate sleep can all systems and organs in the body get enough rest to lay the foundation for life and work the next day.
Because of this, we have developed a good habit of sunrise and daily income, and science suggests that adults should sleep at about 6-8 hours.
However, this data is not fixed, people with age continues to grow, the function of various organs in the body is also declining, and the elderly's life and activity range is relatively small, so under normal circumstances, the elderly sleep time is often shortened, and maintaining about 5-7 hours of sleep per day is enough to meet the needs of the body.
Moreover, in life, affected by various factors, there are many elderly people who have problems such as short sleep time, insomnia and early awakening.
Of course, there are also some elderly people who are easily sleepy in life, which is often affected by overwork and poor sleep quality at night.
However, if the elderly sleep at night with high quality, still sleepy during the day, or even reach the point of drowsiness, this is not a good sign, but the disease has found its own signal.
For example, after the emergence of the following three diseases, the elderly are prone to drowsiness:
1. Sleep apnea syndrome: the most typical symptom of the disease is snoring, but unlike ordinary snoring, patients often have intervals during sleep every night, and each pause in breathing exceeds 10 seconds.
If respiratory arrest occurs more than 30 times during each night, it can be diagnosed with sleep apnea syndrome.
Patients with this type of disease may seem to be able to go to sleep, but due to insufficient oxygen inhalation, they cannot enter a state of deep sleep. Therefore, patients present with drowsiness or drowsiness during the day, and they can fall asleep immediately and uncontrollably;
2. Cerebral infarction: This disease refers to the atherosclerosis and narrowing of the arterial blood vessels that supply blood to the patient's brain, or the sudden thrombosis that blocks the blood vessels, resulting in insufficient blood oxygen supply to the brain tissue and necrosis, which then induces cerebral infarction.
Relevant research surveys show that nearly 80% of patients with cerebral infarction have symptoms such as sleeplessness, drowsiness, and frequent yawning in the six months before the onset of the disease.
This is the case because the patient's cerebral arteries are already very narrow, the blood supply to the brain tissue is insufficient, and then the feeling of drowsiness is developed, and the patient is accompanied by dizziness, frequent headaches, double decline in memory and attention, and other symptoms;
3, diabetes: if the elderly are sleepy at the same time, but also accompanied by symptoms such as general fatigue, fatigue and so on, it may also be diabetes to find their own signal.
Because the pathogenesis mechanism of diabetes, that is, the patient's islet function is impaired or the cells are not sensitive enough to insulin, the body can not use glucose to provide energy, in order to maintain the normal operation of the body, can only mobilize the body's original storage of liver sugar and fat burning energy, and diabetes will also be combined with peripheral neuropathy, vascular lesions and other issues;
Therefore, it is easy to make elderly patients feel tired and sleepy, and accompanied by symptoms such as eating more, emaciation, drinking more, and urinating more.
All in all, sleepiness in the elderly is not a good sign, because people need a limited amount of sleep time every day, and after the body gets enough rest, it should be a state of clear mind and full of energy.
If the elderly have recently loved to sleep and are groggy every day, they should be vigilant and seek medical attention for relevant screening in time.