Talk:Postprandial somnolence

The painting isn’t showing a “siesta” after a meal. She’s lying down next to what is clearly an opium pipe. She’s high on opium, not resting after a meal. I recommend removing or changing the image since it is misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1008:B035:BDC9:4D33:8B54:C45C:58DD (talk) 13:49, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Untitled
What does "BPS" refer to in the first sentence? A Wikipedia and Google search produced no relevant entries. I have deleted it. If it were to be reintroduced, it should be sourced and the acronym should be spelled out.🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Merge proposal
The proposal is to merge the stub Postprandial dip to here. Whoever effects the merge should somehow determine how the research by Burdakov et al. described there relates to what is being said here. --Lambiam 22:58, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

The article on Postprandial dip is a mess. The term refers to a drop in blood glucose after a meal, not to post-prandial somnolence. That article then goes on to say that low blood glucose makes people sleepy, which is false. Low blood glucose makes people jittery and irritable, but not sleepy. (unless it becomes catastrophically low and the person goes in to a coma, which doesn't happen in humans with normal glucose metabolism)

A better solution may be to take out the content of postprandial dip that relates not to post-prandial dip, but to the unrelated phenomenon of post-prandial somnolence, and if that content is legit (Burdakov et al.) to add it here, and leave post-prandial dip to talk about what it actually is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.218.166.77 (talk) 02:49, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

The paper by Burdakov et al. is about sleepiness induced by high blood sugar, by glucose inhibition of the alertness-causing orexin neurons. Whoever put it in here cited it for the opposite. Sivert45 (talk) 17:56, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm inclined to agree with 128.218.166.77 above. The current content of the articles overlap to a fair extent, but it seems the articles' intended subject matter overlaps to a much smaller degree. I may be wrong, though, as I have no real experience or formal education in medicine or physiology. –erudition FISH 19:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I read the article by Burdakov et al. and confirmed it presents an actual new hypothesis with some good science behind it regarding post-prandial somnolence. I thus cut the language about this from "post-prandial dip" (where it was off topic), edited for readability and accessibility, and added it here with the Burdakov reference. This fixes the "post-prandial dip" article, which is a different topic not related to somnolence, and I've removed the merge proposal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.218.166.77 (talk) 20:46, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

itis
is itis seriously another word for food coma? "the itis" is a joke on the boondocks but its wiki page was deleted for irrelevance. Also, is urban dictionary an adequate source for this? 166.205.6.179 (talk) 18:21, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not, so I've removed it.
 * Itis is the colloquial term for it--Reahad (talk) 14:16, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I've heard both "itis" and "food coma" being used as colloquial terms for Postprandial Somnolence, but finding reliable sources for these is difficult. 206.28.38.227 (talk) 19:55, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * idioms basic to native speakers of a language don't need sourcing. Does someone on a baseball page need to source a sentence "home runs, commonly called 'homers'", or do we as english speakers take certain realities for granted? I suspect whoever first deleted the ITIS clause doesn't know any black people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.26.201 (talk) 02:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

It may be worthwhile to qualify "itis" as being potentially offensive condersidering it's a shortened version of something a bit more ugly 2605:E000:1300:C2C6:0:0:0:101A (talk) 07:25, 8 January 2017 (UTC)


 * The iris is a common term with American black people and it is not generally perceived to be offensive by them. There are online articles that claim it should be considered offensive, but they are not representative of the preferences of the people they are supposedly protecting. Including it is important for representation of black culture, removing it just erases relevant black experience and culture. 66.146.216.95 (talk) 17:43, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Parasympathetic activation
Where does this information come from? There are no references in this section, only a link to some web page. Sivert45 (talk) 22:45, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Respiratory Acidosis
The section on respiratory acidosis is unsourced and almost entirely incorrect. I have deleted it until someone wants to argue for it and source it. It is copied below. The partial pressure of O2 in the blood has nothing to do with the availability of oxygen to the tissues because the carrying capacity of hemoglobin for oxygen (the O2 saturation, SaO2) is overwhelmingly large compared to the amount of dissolved oxygen in the blood's fluid phase. Secondly, tiny shift in the oxygen dissociation curve from any increase in blood pH related to gastric acid secretion would be similarly overwhelmed by cerebral autoregulation.

Respiratory acidosis Ingestion of food causes release of acid in the stomach. Therefore the blood becomes slightly basic (metabolic alkalosis). This does two things. First, the oxygen dissociation curve becomes left shifted so less oxygen is available to tissues. Second, the body compensates by slower, deeper breaths (respiratory acidosis). Increase in the plasma partial pressure of carbon dioxide will decrease the plasma partial pressure of oxygen, which also reduces oxygen availability to tissues. The end result is lethargy and drowsiness. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.218.166.77 (talk) 00:55, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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Vasodilation error?
"...excite and induce vasodilation in ventrolateral preoptic nucleus neurons of the hypothalamus..." how does this work? Neurons themselves don't have any blood vessels in them.128.40.96.92 (talk) 15:27, 23 November 2021 (UTC)