Why Often Yawn Even We're Not Sleepy?

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JAKARTA - Yawning is the body's natural response by opening the mouth, breathing through the mouth, and then exhaling it. Often, yawning is experienced even though it is not drowsy. What's the cause?

If it is not caused by drowsiness, yawning marks the state of a tired or bored body. Yawning also helps lower brain temperature.

Based on studies published in the International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research shows as long as it is not very often a normal condition. Well, yawning can also be contagious as it relates to social communication.

Why do we often yawn when we are not sleepy?

This is to watch out for, if it evaporates more than once every minute it can be due to boredom and vasovagal reactions. The vasovagal reaction is the occurrence of increased vagus nerve activity from the brain through the throat to the abdomen.

When there is an increase in the vagus nerve, heart rate, and blood pressure significantly decrease. The movement of the vagus nerve to be more active can be caused by certain reactions, such as drowsiness, fatigue, and other problems such as sleep disorders and side effects of depression and anxiety medications.

Some other causes that trigger yawning many times, although this is rare, among others can mark some of the following diseases:

Heart attack

Problems occur in the heart vessels and early symptoms of a heart attack can be characterized by frequent yawning. Especially when accompanied by chest pain, nausea, dizziness, and shortness of breath.

Epilepsy

People with epilepsy will evaporate excessively especially before, after, and during seizures. The condition begins in the temporal lobe due to fatigue.

Cortisol increases

A study shows that yawning is associated with an increase in the hormone cortisol. The hormone cortisol is a stress hormone. So, when experiencing stress, anxiety, fatigue, the increase in cortisol and yawning is endless even though it is not sleepy.

Abnormal cortisol hormones or significant increases can be caused by multiple sclerosis problems and early-onset dementia. Multiple sclerosis followed symptoms of fatigue, numbness in the face, arms, or legs, feeling dizzy, and the body unbalanced to difficulty walking.

In essence, health problems triggered by fatigue will not be beneficial. That is, you need to maintain a healthy life, time discipline, and consume the intake of nutrients that the body needs. To ascertain the exact cause, of course, you must consult a doctor.

If you feel bored that causes frequent yawning, it can be overcome by small movements, breathing fresh air, deep breathing, and doing other activities that can stop boredom.