How long do you sleep after dinner?

It is advisable to go to bed about 30 minutes after meals.

The elderly should avoid aspiration pneumonia and had better change the habit of sleeping after meals. It is best to get into the habit of walking for about 30 minutes after three meals, or do some indoor activities to promote digestion.

Second, don't lie flat when sleeping. Medical clinical research shows that the semi-supine position of 25~30 degrees is the safest and can reduce the chance of aspiration by 50%. Therefore, you can choose a slightly higher pillow and lie on the right or half side to avoid the secretion from flowing back to the trachea and bronchus.

Old people who stay in bed for a long time can sit for 30 minutes after meals to accelerate the emptying of the stomach by gravity and reduce food reflux. In addition, some pathogenic bacteria in oral and pharyngeal secretions are also one of the risk factors of aspiration pneumonia in the elderly. Therefore, the elderly should pay attention to oral cleaning, rinse their mouths in time after three meals and brush their teeth thoroughly.

Extended data:

After dinner, the following things should not be done.

1, it is not advisable to take a bath after meals. Taking a bath immediately after a meal will redistribute blood flow, stimulate internal organs, affect stomach peristalsis, and cause stomach cramps and indigestion. If the water temperature is too high, it may stimulate capillaries, leading to the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and also lead to hypoxia.

It is not advisable to drink strong tea and smoke after meals. Many people will drink some strong tea after meals, thinking that drinking strong tea can help clear the body fat, but actually drinking strong tea will cause indigestion, because tannic acid and theophylline contained in tea will hinder the peristalsis of gastrointestinal tract, inhibit the secretion of gastric acid, and also affect the protein absorption of beans.

3. It is not advisable to exercise vigorously after meals. After a meal, strenuous exercise can easily disperse blood to the muscles of the whole body. In this case, the blood supply of the gastrointestinal tract will be reduced, which will affect the function of the gastrointestinal tract and then affect the digestion and absorption of food.

It is not advisable to sleep after meals. Just after eating, the gastrointestinal tract is still digesting and absorbing the food that has just been eaten. If you go to sleep at this time, the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract will be weakened, which will cause indigestion. For people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it is easy to cause cerebral ischemia and stroke.

5, it is not appropriate to eat fruit after meals, because fruit has a lot of sugar, which easily leads to an increase in blood sugar. After a long time, symptoms of fullness will occur, which will lead to abdominal pain, bloating and constipation.

People's Daily Online-Sleeping immediately after a meal is prone to stroke. Five things you can't do after dinner.

People's Daily Online-Health Alert: Sleeping after meals will hurt the lungs.