Why do elderly people get drowsy and what should they do?

My grandfather is old, often drowsy, the family is worried about whether there are some diseases, so my grandfather went to the hospital to see, the doctor gave us some relevant advice, I heard that people who are often drowsy have cerebrovascular diseases, it may also be insufficient cerebral blood supply, people who often love drowsiness, heart disease should also be paid attention to, old, if the body is particularly fat, often have the habit of alcoholism, you should pay attention to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

In daily life, many elderly people will experience drowsiness in the daytime, and many people do not pay much attention to this problem, but from a medical point of view, senile sleepiness may be a sign of some diseases. So how to prevent drowsiness in old age, and what may be the signs of disease?

01 Control sleep.

For the elderly, if you want to prevent the problem of senile sleepiness, you must reasonably control the sleep time every day, and it is best not to sleep more than 10 hours a day, because if you sleep too long, you will not wake up during the day, and it is easy to induce heart disease and stroke.

02 Sleep at the right time.

If you want to prevent drowsiness in old age, you must choose the right time to sleep. Many elderly people will get up early in the morning for morning exercise, but after morning exercise, they will come home and start to make up for sleep, which is a very bad habit, which will directly affect the cardiopulmonary function and aggravate drowsiness.

03 Take a nap properly.

If you want to prevent sleepiness in old age, you should also choose the right way to nap. Many elderly people habitually want to sleep for a while after eating lunch, this habit is very correct, but the nap time should be controlled at 30-60min, otherwise they will not wake up at all after getting up, and they will be sleepy in the daytime for a long time.

01 If the elderly have drowsiness, it is likely to be a condition of cerebral infarction, which has no obvious symptoms in daily life, but in the early stage of the attack, the elderly will have frequent drowsiness, and the daily sleep time will be significantly prolonged.

02 If the elderly experience drowsiness, it is likely to be a sign of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease itself is a disease that the elderly are prone to, and the early symptom of Alzheimer's disease is that sleep will be disturbed, which may be an increase in sleep time, or it may be that you can't wake up all the time.

03 If the elderly have drowsiness, it may be a precursor to depression, and the mental condition of depression has been in a relatively low state for a long time, and according to the introduction of relevant professionals, the sleep time of the elderly will also increase significantly after suffering from depression.

04 If the elderly have drowsiness, it may be a sign of cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral arteriosclerosis, because when cerebral arteriosclerosis disease occurs, it will hinder the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, so that the brain tissue will be ischemia and hypoxia, and drowsiness will naturally occur.

05 In addition, if the elderly have drowsiness, there may be thyroid function problems, when the elderly have hypothyroidism, they will begin to have drowsiness, and it will also be accompanied by symptoms such as increased blood lipids and chest tightness and breathlessness.