What would cause a person to fall asleep after eating any amount of food?

Question

Diabetes has been ruled out & heart disease was diagnosed. Person has extremely low pulse rate & normal blood pressure rates. What could possibly cause a person to fall asleep within an hour of eating?

Answer 1

What happens to any person right after eating, especially if it's a heavy meal, is that the body is focusing 100% on digesting that food. That's why the body temperature can lower and fatigue is common. When someone has a heart disease, that person is already easily tired because of the heart that is unable to pump out blood in a normal fashion, maybe the heart needs to pump faster or harder, depending of the type of disease and other conditions of the person (like obesity). Hope this helps to clarify a bit.

Answer 2

You see when any person take food the blood is diverted to the 21 feet of intestine, hence reducing the amount of oxygen to brain, hence the body compensates by stopping all physical activities so that vital organs receive blood & oxygen . So the best option is put the person to sleep, a normal physiological phenomena.

This phenomena is more common after lunch.

Answer 3

Wanting to fall asleep after a meal is normal. When food hits the stomach blood is pumped to help digest the food, which in turn makes the body tired.

Answer 4

Its called itis.

The itis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The itis is a Caribbean term in Black American Vernacular English to describe a condition of sleepiness associated with eating meats and sauces, a real human phenomena known as food coma. The term "itis" or "The itis" actually derives from its racial(ist) connotation "*****ritis" with the racist word later being dropped as usage of the term came to the U.S. This word derives from slave owners trying to describe why slaves did not want to work after eating. After slavery was abolished, their replacements (the Indian "coolies"—another racist term) did such work in order to appease the former slave owners.

The foods commonly considered to be soul foods are generally high in both fat and carbohydrates, and are thus more likely to induce sleepiness. The suffix -itis, while used clinically to describe an inflammation, has come in the public mind to refer to any medical condition, along with -osis. With the advent of modern popular culture and the popularity of black comedians in the United States, the concept of the "Itis" has moved beyond its provincial roots and has become fairly well known throughout American culture, and to a certain extent beyond.


[edit] The itis in popular culture
Comedian Dave Chappelle, on his program Chappelle's Show, featured a joke advertisement for a sleep aid specifically for black consumers known as "ribs," consisting of pork ribs cooked in barbeque sauce, explaining that it induces a state known as "the itis."
Aaron McGruder's cartoon program The Boondocks featured an episode where the grandfather opened a soul food restaurant named "The Itis" serving the Luther Burger. Customers would reserve a table and, following their meal, would rent naptime in a bed provided by the restaurant.

Answer 5

what sort of food. foods that are high in tryptofan are likely to cause drowsiness. chicken and turkey for example

Answer 6

They are tired.