Patients with cerebral infarction always want to sleep, which may be related to the site of infarction, cerebral edema and other comorbidities or complications.
1. Site of cerebral infarction: If the cerebral infarction occurs in the brainstem area, causing damage to the upward reticular activating system of the patient’s brain, it may lead to the patient’s impaired consciousness, which is manifested as lethargy and wanting to sleep all the time.
2. Cerebral edema: if the infarction area is large and obvious cerebral edema, consciousness disorder may also appear, and those with mild consciousness disorder may show drowsiness and the symptom of always wanting to sleep.
3. Other comorbidities or complications: if patients with cerebral infarction are combined with chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema, sleep apnea syndrome, etc., due to chronic hypoxia, drowsiness may appear; if patients with cerebral infarction have serious complications such as urinary tract infections, lung infections, cardiopulmonary insufficiency, etc., it will also aggravate hypoxia of the brain, and drowsiness will appear.
Cerebral infarction patients always want to sleep, it is recommended to seek medical treatment as soon as possible, after clarifying the cause, give targeted treatment.