Be careful! Feeling sleepy all the time may be a sign of illness

Expert of this article: Guo Xiangping, Deputy Secretary-General of Beijing Medical Education Association, Associate Chief Physician

The weather is gradually warming up recently

Many friends

Feeling weak and sleepy

Yawning

…

Modern medicine explains "spring fatigue and spring sleepiness" as follows:

Cold winter weather

Cold stimulation of human skin capillaries

Causes shrinkage

Decreased blood flow

Increase blood flow to the brain

Adequate blood and oxygen supply

Less prone to drowsiness and fatigue

In spring, the weather turns warmer

Human skin capillary dilation

Increased blood flow

Make the brain tissue susceptible to ischemia and hypoxia

Reduced excitability of brain nerve cells

therefore

The human body is prone to drowsiness, fatigue, etc.

It should be noted that

As the seasons change

People are prone to spring sleepiness and fatigue in spring

But if you feel tired and sleepy every day

We should be alert to whether it is pathological?

First, you should rule out physiological reasons.

1. Do you often stay up late?

Staying up late will lead to a decline in the functions of various organs and a disorder in the hormone secretion of the body, which may cause symptoms such as mental fatigue, weakness, and drowsiness.

2. As the weather gets warmer, do you engage in outdoor exercise frequently and excessively?

Proper exercise is good for health, but excessive exercise will cause the body to consume a lot of energy and cause functional inhibition. In order to prevent further energy consumption, people will feel extremely tired, weak and drowsy.

3. Are you overly tired?

Excessive fatigue can cause symptoms such as fatigue, drowsiness, yawning, palpitations, and mental depression.

Excessive fatigue can be caused by a lot of physical activity or long-term mental work, both of which consume a lot of energy and oxygen and produce a lot of metabolic waste. When the body lacks energy supply, symptoms such as fatigue and palpitations will appear; when the brain lacks oxygen, symptoms such as dizziness and drowsiness will appear.

For spring sleepiness and fatigue caused by irregular lifestyle, including staying up late leading to poor sleep quality, excessive exercise and excessive fatigue, and irregular meals leading to unbalanced nutrition, we should adjust our living habits in time, regulate our work and rest schedule, exercise moderately, eat a healthy diet, and maintain a calm mind.

Secondly, be alert to depression

The manifestations of depression can be divided into three aspects: core symptom groups, psychological symptom groups and physical symptom groups.

In the physical symptom cluster, sleep disorders may cause loss of appetite and weight, as well as listlessness, fatigue, laziness, and drowsiness.

If this happens, you must actively seek medical attention and receive formal treatment.

Finally, consider whether there is a systemic disease

1. People with underlying diseases should actively seek medical attention if their sleepiness worsens. This includes patients with severe anemia, cardiovascular disease, liver damage, kidney damage, diabetes, thyroid disease, muscle disease, early manifestations of malignant diseases, etc. For example, people with unstable blood sugar will often experience fatigue and sleepiness, and should adjust medication in time according to test results.

2. Always feeling sleepy, weak, and wanting to sleep may also be a sleep disorder, which may be caused by brain hypoxia. Common diseases that cause brain hypoxia include severe hypertension.

Long-term sleep disorders will aggravate chronic cerebral ischemia and cause hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, which will cause symptoms of drowsiness and wanting to sleep.

If you experience any of the above symptoms, you must seek medical attention promptly to avoid delaying the condition.

In summary

Spring sleepiness and fatigue may also be symptoms of disease

Refer to medical history

Combined with other symptoms and signs to comprehensively judge the cause

Atypical early manifestations of systemic diseases

To avoid misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis

The symptoms of fatigue are severe and no improvement is seen with adjustment

Necessary inspections should be carried out promptly

Active treatment after finding the exact cause

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