As the saying goes: "Spring is sleepy, autumn is lacking, and summer is weak." "When spring comes, many people will feel drowsy, listless, often yawning, and weak limbs, which is often referred to as "spring sleepiness". Drowsiness in spring is indeed a normal natural phenomenon, but not all sleepiness and dozing off are normal, drowsiness and lack of energy are not only a manifestation of spring sleepiness, but also may be a symptom of some diseases.
Coma
Excessive sleepiness is actually a disease, which is mainly manifested as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, with narcolepsy being the most common, and its main manifestations are drowsiness, poor energy, and being able to fall asleep at any time. Once the symptoms of narcolepsy appear, you should immediately seek medical attention, pay attention to the diagnosis and treatment of those primary diseases that may cause drowsiness, such as biological clock disorders, neurasthenia, organic diseases with drowsiness, encephalitis, meningitis, concussion and other psychiatric diseases, and treat the symptoms.
stroke
Stroke is one of the common diseases of middle-aged and elderly people, and it seriously threatens and even harms the physical and mental health of many middle-aged and elderly people. Among the elderly, about seventy or eighty percent of ischemic stroke patients will often yawn, drowsiness, lack of energy and other symptoms similar to "spring sleepiness" due to ischemia and lack of oxygen in the brain about a week before the onset of the disease.
Kōyū
Many of us know that patients with hyperthyroidism mostly manifest themselves with swollen necks and easy hunger, but we don't know that there are a small number of hyperthyroidism patients whose symptoms are "non-mainstream", mainly manifested as indifference, dull eyes, slow response, easy drowsiness and other symptoms, which are easily mistaken for spring sleepiness.
In addition, potassium is an essential trace element of the human body, is an essential ion of life, if the human body is deficient in potassium, it may have similar symptoms to spring sleepiness, accompanied by systemic muscle weakness, limb paralysis, nausea, vomiting, constipation, unresponsive and other symptoms.
Therefore, if symptoms such as drowsiness, sleepiness, and listlessness occur in spring, it is necessary to make a scientific judgment according to one's own physical condition, catch out the disease "lurking" behind the spring sleepiness as soon as possible, diagnose it early, and cure it as soon as possible.
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