What's going on with your body when you faint?!
Question: Last week I was feeling sick all day and I started to feel better and was talking to someone in the kitchen when out of no where I got really hot and dizzy, said I needed to sit down because I felt light headed, took one step back, and the next thing I knew I was lying on the floor. I know I probably fainted because I was sick and didn't eat much of anything all day BUT I'm interested to know what was happening inside my body that causes me to faint? I know fainting isn't a huge deal...but it just seems scary that you don't remember falling and you're totally confused when you wake up and can't move right away. Someone told me it was kind of like a mini coma almost--is that true?
Answers: Last week I was feeling sick all day and I started to feel better and was talking to someone in the kitchen when out of no where I got really hot and dizzy, said I needed to sit down because I felt light headed, took one step back, and the next thing I knew I was lying on the floor. I know I probably fainted because I was sick and didn't eat much of anything all day BUT I'm interested to know what was happening inside my body that causes me to faint? I know fainting isn't a huge deal...but it just seems scary that you don't remember falling and you're totally confused when you wake up and can't move right away. Someone told me it was kind of like a mini coma almost--is that true?
The Body is a very amazing machine. When you end up fainting, what is happening is that the blood supply to your brain is falling short of what is needed to operate the brain at the capacity you are asking of it at the time. The hot feeling comes because when you are warm, the blood vessels open up and rush more blood to the required area of the body. this rush of blood supply to fix the depleted amount needed by the brain is what makes you dizzy, because the amount is just a little to much for the little ear vessels to handle. When you feel this way, it is best to get your head below your heart. The lack of blood in the brain causes the mind to feel scared, due to the shortage of resourses the brain needs. Once the volume of blood is restored to the brain, which takes a few minutes, the brain quickly recovers itself, the memory loss is also a symptom of lack of blood, and the resource that the brain uses to not require the total resources and restore a balance to the body.
Passing out occurs when u'r brain lacks oxigen due to insufficient oxigenised blood supplied by the carothides.
May be u can term it as mini coma, but nothing to worry abt it unless it happens repeatedly.
Your brain didn't get enough oxygen. You might have fainted because of emotional stress, hyperventilation, a physical trigger (getting too hot), low blood sugar, anemia, an eating disorder, or possibly a cardiac problem.
Fainting is a sudden (and generally momentary) loss of consciousness, or blacking out, due to a lack of sufficient blood and oxygen reaching the brain. The first symptoms a person feels before fainting are dizziness, a dimming of vision, or brown-out and feeling hot. Moments later, the person's vision turns black and he or she drops to the floor (or slumps if seated in a chair).
Factors that influence fainting are taking in too little food and fluids, low blood pressure, hypoglycemia, growth spurts, physical exercise in excess of the energy reserve of the body, and lack of sleep. Even standing up too quickly or being in too hot a room can cause fainting."
AND IT HAPPENS WHEN THERS NOT ENOUGH OXYGEN GOING TO YOUR BRAIN