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  • 9/6/2019
If you imagine in a very warm hot room as a student in a lecture and you just had a very big heavy lunch perhaps with some alcohol in it.
The tendency for you would be to feel very drowsy and sleepy and this is a very mild form of postprandial if you like drowsiness now post-paris syncope is an extreme example of that and really.

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What it is is that the body has the ability to adapt or the the the body should really adapt to changes in physiology that is to say after a big meal there is the necessary Rishon ting or redistribution of blood to the gut and the splanchnic system to take away the nutrients that being digested in the stomach and as a result the shunting of blood going to the stomach.
There may be less blood going up into the brain and so patients feel drowsy so in the extreme example again with the sitting ducks all in a row with dehydration a hot environment maybe possibly a bit of tiredness a bit of alcohol perhaps causing some vasodilation again shunting a blood away from the central system.
And the brain into the vessels into the legs and shunting of blood into the stomach this is what can lead to a situation where there's not enough blood pressure to the brain causing syncope treatment for postprandial such syncope is a recognition that you are a patient prone to having this condition and therefore take the appropriate evasive action after a large meal for example not sitting in a warm crowded environment making sure.
You're adequately hydrated perhaps avoiding alcohol in that situation and the conservative things such as performing ice-o-matic isometric counter pressure exercises these are very simple exercises such as clenching your hands together and pulling apart gritting your teeth and really flexing and tensing the muscles of your calves in your quads and your buttocks the large muscle groups to act as a pump to squeeze the venous blood back into the central circulation to get the blood flowing to your brain again.

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