Beware of the five dangers of sleeping on the desk

Modern people live at a fast pace. Naps can relax the cardiovascular system and reduce tension in the body. Urban white-collar workers who mainly do mental work can experience greatly improved work efficiency after a lunch break. Due to limited time at noon, many office workers are accustomed to sleeping on their desks. This may have little impact on human health occasionally, but if it continues for a long time, chronic gastritis will occur. Because it takes at least one hour for the human body to empty the food in the stomach after lunch, if you take a nap on the table right after a meal, the stomach will be squeezed, which will increase the peristaltic burden, easily cause stomach bloating, reduce digestion ability, affect nutrient absorption, delay stomach emptying, and damage the gastric mucosal barrier, thus leading to gastritis.

1. Oppression of the eyeball affects vision

Neurologists say that sleeping with your arms on will put pressure on the eyeballs, causing temporary blurred vision after waking up. If this continues for a long time, it will cause high intraocular pressure, easily lead to high myopia, and induce diseases such as glaucoma. In addition, when sleeping while sitting or lying down, the spine cannot maintain a normal position, which will affect normal blood circulation and nerve conduction, and the arms, face and other parts will become paralyzed or even sore. Over time, it may develop into local nerve paralysis or cause facial deformation. Moreover, ophthalmologists believe that the disadvantage of sleeping on your stomach is that it may put pressure on the eyeballs, causing the eyes to become congested and increase intraocular pressure. People with severe myopia should pay more attention to this.

2. Affect digestion

Taking a nap on the table will also affect digestion. Most people eat a lot at noon, and it takes about 3 hours to digest this food. If you take a nap on the table immediately after lunch, the digestive function of the stomach will easily be affected, causing stomach bloating.

3. Aggravate cerebral ischemia

After falling asleep, a person's heart rate will gradually slow down, the blood flowing through various tissues will also become relatively slower, and the blood flowing into the brain will be less than usual. After lunch, more blood will enter the gastrointestinal tract to help digestion. Sleeping on your stomach will aggravate brain ischemia, and eventually lead to symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, weak legs and numbness in the feet.

4. Affects breathing

Taking a nap in this position also affects your breathing. Because it increases the curvature of the body, breathing becomes obstructed and the chest cannot stretch well, so the body's oxygen supply will naturally be insufficient. Postures that compress women's chests can also induce various heart or breast diseases.

5. Radiation damages the skin

Some experts pointed out that although radiation hazards will not cause immediate damage to the skin, such harm can continue to accumulate. Office workers often take a nap at their desks. Some people turn off the screen, but the radiation from the host computer still exists. Therefore, when you take a nap at noon, even if it is only for half an hour or twenty minutes, you should develop the good habit of turning off your phone. In addition, increasing daily exercise and eating a healthy diet will also help fight radiation. Radiation intensifies the evaporation of moisture on the skin surface, making our skin extremely dry, providing convenient conditions for the growth of spots, acne and blackheads, and accelerating the degree of skin aging. Dull skin, easy spots, large pores, oily outside and dry inside are all characteristics of "computer skin".

How to take a nap correctly:

1. It is not advisable to lie down and take a nap immediately after lunch.

It is not advisable to take a nap immediately after lunch. After lunch, a large amount of blood flows to the stomach, blood pressure drops, and the brain's oxygen and nutrition supply decreases significantly, which can easily cause insufficient blood supply to the brain. Generally, you should rest for more than ten minutes after eating before taking a nap.

2. Sitting or sleeping at a desk can cause symptoms of brain hypoxia

It should be noted that sleeping in a sitting position or at a desk will reduce blood supply to the head, causing a series of symptoms of cerebral ischemia and hypoxia such as dizziness, blurred vision, fatigue, etc. after waking up. Some people use their hands as pillows and take a nap on the table. This will put pressure on the eyeballs and easily induce eye diseases over time. In addition, lying on the table will compress the chest, affect breathing, blood circulation and nerve conduction, and cause numbness and tingling in the arms and hands.

3. Do not engage in complex or dangerous work immediately after waking up

Do some light activity after waking up. After a nap, stand up slowly and drink a glass of water to replenish blood volume and dilute blood viscosity. Do not engage in complex or dangerous work immediately, as waking up often makes people feel dazed.