Why do you want to sleep after eating?

Eating can give people a lot of energy to meet the basic needs of human activity, but in most cases after eating there is no passion, but also drowsy, which after eating want to sleep especially sleepy is what is going on? Why do you want to sleep after eating?

Normal food sleepy

People eat food will generally be completely digested within 2 hours of eating, of which one hour after eating digestion efficiency is the highest, most of the blood in the whole body during this time are gathered in the mesenteric vessels, the transport of nutrients, the blood supply to the brain during this time will obviously drop a lot, so there is a lack of oxygen to the brain caused by sleepiness. However, the body can still control not to go to sleep.

Malnutrition

There are also some people who are malnourished. When they do not eat, the blood circulation is faster and can still meet the needs of the brain, but after eating, the distribution of blood in the brain is reduced and the supply of nutrients is seriously insufficient, resulting in brain malnutrition and drowsiness, and in severe cases, even dizziness and shock.

Anemia

In addition to frequent dizziness, pallor, weakness, shortness of breath, palpitations, etc., sleepiness after meals is also a common symptom in patients with anemia, especially in patients with insufficient blood volume and red blood cell dysfunction, where blood flows into the mesenteric arteries in large quantities after meals, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain and sleepiness.

Excessive fatigue

The most common people who sleep after meals are the elderly and children, these two groups of people have poor physical quality, it is easy to fatigue, the brain blood supply is insufficient after meals, it is easy to sleep, their own fatigue is more likely to sleep, many children can fall asleep during meals are very common.

Spleen deficiency

When the workload of the spleen suddenly increases after a meal, the spleen system needs more qi and blood to help the spleen complete the digestion, absorption and transportation of nutrients, which inevitably leads to a decrease in the supply of blood and qi to other organs of the body. When the supply of Qi and blood to the brain decreases, symptoms of sleepiness will occur. Those with light spleen deficiency will have symptoms of being easily sleepy after meals, but they can still control not going to sleep; those with heavy spleen deficiency must sleep after meals or they cannot continue to work; some are even too sleepy to control just after they start eating. In this case, after acupuncture treatment, the symptoms of sleepiness after meals will be gradually relieved until they disappear.