Advantages: It is understood that 60% people choose supine sleeping position, because it will not oppress the internal organs of the body, and it is the best sleeping position.
Disadvantages: it is easy to cause drooping of the tongue base and hinder breathing. Snoring and people with respiratory diseases are uncomfortable.
Prone:
Advantages: people in this sleeping position will feel safe when sleeping, and it will also help to discharge foreign bodies in the mouth; At the same time, it is good for people with lumbar problems.
Disadvantages: it oppresses the heart and lungs and affects breathing. Patients with heart disease, hypertension and cerebral thrombosis should not choose to lie prone.
Lying on the left:
Advantages: None.
Disadvantages: Because the human heart is located on the left side of the body, lying on the left side will oppress the heart and stomach, especially for patients with stomach diseases, acute liver diseases and gallstones.
Lying on the right:
Advantages: it will not oppress the heart, and sleep has a sense of stability.
Disadvantages: it affects the right lung movement and is not suitable for patients with emphysema.
Sleeping posture has certain influence on human health. Taking the correct sleeping position according to the symptoms will play a very good role.
heart disease
If the heart function is good, you can lie to the right to relieve the pressure on your heart. If there are signs of heart failure, you can use a semi-recumbent position to relieve dyspnea. If you lie prone or on your left side, it will aggravate your condition.
pneumonectasis
Middle-aged and elderly people with emphysema should lie on their backs, raise their heads, and extend their hands slightly upward to keep breathing unobstructed.
Patients with hypertension should sleep in supine position with pillows. Generally, the pillow is about 15cm high. Too high or too low can cause discomfort.
Hepatobiliary diseases
Patients with chronic liver disease and gallstones should lie on the left side, which can reduce the pressure on the affected part and is conducive to rehabilitation.
gastric ulcer
It is advisable to lie on the left. If you sleep on the right side, the reflux of acidic liquid from the stomach to the esophagus is more than normal, which will cause burning pain in the stomach.
cerebral thrombus
It is wise to lie on your back. Lying on one's side will aggravate the blood flow slowdown, and it is easy to gradually gather in the injury of the intima of the artery to form a thrombus.
otitis media
Patients with suppurative otitis media should lie on their ears in the early stage to facilitate the discharge of purulent secretions in the ear canal and shorten the course of disease.
maternal
Pregnant women lie on their left side, not on their back; It is best to lie prone after delivery so that lochia can be discharged as soon as possible.
After surgery
Patients who are not awake after general anesthesia should lie flat, turn their heads to one side, or lie on their side at 45 degrees, semi-prone, so that secretions or vomit in the oral cavity can easily flow out. Patients after spinal anesthesia should lie on the pillow for six hours to prevent headaches. If there is no shock or coma, after brain, neck, chest and abdomen surgery, a pillow and quilt can be put on the back of the patient's head to make the patient take different degrees of inclined lying position, which can alleviate brain edema, facilitate breathing and reduce abdominal wall tension. After spinal or hip surgery, prone or supine position is appropriate.