Do you think you are feeling sleepy during the spring? It may be your body's signal for help.

Spring is here, everything comes back to life

Many people are possessed by "spring sleepiness"

Feeling listless, sleepy and tired all the time

Some drowsiness is caused by lack of rest.

But there are still some difficulties

It may be a healthy signal from your body.

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Frequent sleepiness may be caused by high blood viscosity

Zhang Xiaoming, chief physician of vascular surgery at Peking University People's Hospital: High blood viscosity will first affect the human body's capillaries. If the capillaries are affected and blocked, nutrients cannot be delivered to organ cells, which may cause dizziness, headaches, lack of energy, and even affect the heart, causing chest tightness and shortness of breath, and may also affect other organs.

How to avoid increased blood viscosity

Breaking Bad Habits

Quit some bad habits, such as smoking and drinking, which may increase the viscosity of our blood.

Drink water frequently and pay attention to your diet

If you drink less water, blood viscosity may also increase. At the same time, you should pay attention to eating more light food, coarse grains, and fruits, which are also beneficial to lowering blood lipids and blood sugar, and can also prevent platelet aggregation and thrombosis.

Lifestyle

Staying up late for a long time and excessive psychological pressure can also cause increased blood viscosity, so it is necessary to maintain good living habits and a good attitude.

Exercise more

Doing some gentle exercise can increase the metabolism of lipids in the body, reduce the concentration of blood lipids, and also reduce blood viscosity.

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Frequent sleepiness may be caused by low blood pressure

Zhu Hang, deputy chief physician of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, PLA General Hospital: If the body has low blood pressure, it will lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain. If the brain is often insufficiently supplied with blood, dizziness, headaches, and drowsiness will occur.

Moreover, patients with typical hypotension are prone to being listless and listless all day long. This is because cerebral perfusion is affected, causing brain cells to be hypoxic, which can cause drowsiness.

Beware of diseases hidden behind low blood pressure

Experts recommend that people with low blood pressure should go to the cardiology clinic as soon as possible to determine whether the low blood pressure is physiological or pathological.

If it is physiological hypotension, there is no need to worry.

However, if it is pathological hypotension, then there is a high possibility of anemia, hypothyroidism, gastrointestinal bleeding, malnutrition, decreased food intake, electrolyte imbalance, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to actively treat the primary disease, and the corresponding hypotension state will be alleviated.

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Frequent sleepiness may be caused by periodic leg syndrome

Zhang Lisan, chief physician of the Sleep Medicine Center of Run Run Shaw Hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine: Periodic leg movement syndrome is a sleep disorder and a type of sleep-related movement disorder. It is caused by periodic leg twitching at certain stages of sleep at night, and the brain waves will change from deep sleep to light sleep when the legs twitch.

If this happens more often, it will lead to daytime tiredness, drowsiness, fatigue, etc.

How to Prevent Periodic Leg Syndrome

Experts warn that preventing periodic leg movement syndrome requires eliminating some risk factors.

Avoid staying up late

Staying up late can increase periodic leg syndrome.

Are there other sleep disorders?

For example, sleep apnea (snoring), rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, narcolepsy, etc. may aggravate periodic leg movement syndrome.

Do you have other diseases?

For example, iron deficiency anemia and uremia, that is, renal insufficiency, may aggravate periodic leg movement syndrome.

Be mindful of your diet

For example, drinking coffee or alcohol can aggravate periodic leg syndrome.

Pay attention to the medications you take

For example, some antipsychotics and antidepressants can aggravate periodic leg movement syndrome.

If your sleepiness is not caused by a medical condition

Then try spinal stretching exercises

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3 minutes a day to help you get rid of spring fatigue

【Spinal stretching exercises】

Sit naturally on a chair, raise your left arm naturally to the side, and use the strength of your waist and abdomen to rotate along your spine to the left and back;

The right hand naturally grasps our chair cushion or handle;

When the body rotates to the maximum position, hold it for 15 to 30 seconds;

Then switch to the other side and do the same movements. Alternating between the left and right sides constitutes one set. Do 3 sets a day.

【Notes】

Don't lean forward too much, otherwise the muscles won't be stretched well;

Don't swing your arms backwards, otherwise it will easily cause muscle strain.

Source: CCTV News Client