Many diseases are induced or aggravated by improper sleeping posture. Therefore, active or passive protective sleeping posture is beneficial to prevent the occurrence of diseases or alleviate the symptoms of diseases.
Beware of diseases caused by improper sleeping position.
The right lateral position is easy to cause stomach trouble.
Analysis: Sleeping on the right side will make the acid liquid in the stomach flow back to the esophagus much more than normal, and it will continue to cause a burning sensation in the stomach, which will easily lead to problems in the stomach.
Correct guidance: Gastropathy is a common disease in life, mainly including gastric ulcer, various gastritis and digestive dysfunction. For these people, it is best to sleep on the right.
Anatomically speaking, the great bend of the stomach and the outlet from the stomach to the duodenum and from the small intestine to the large intestine are on the left. Therefore, sleeping on the right side will not oppress these organs, which is beneficial to the smooth operation of food in the digestive tract from top to bottom.
However, patients with digestive dysfunction such as esophageal reflux had better sleep on the left side.
Prone position and lying on the left side are prone to heart disease.
Analysis: prone position, easy to breathe poorly, oppress internal organs, cause nightmares, and affect the blood circulation of facial skin, making facial skin easy to age.
Lying on the left side will not only oppress the left limb during sleep, slow down the gastric emptying, but also make the heart suffer the maximum pressure in the chest cavity, which is not conducive to cardiac blood transfusion and is easy to have nightmares.
Correct guidance: patients with heart disease should sleep on the right side. Because the heart is in the left chest position, sleeping to the right will make more blood flow to the right, thus reducing the burden on the heart. If heart failure has occurred, you can use a semi-lying position to relieve dyspnea, and avoid lying prone or lying on the left.
Patients with coronary heart disease and angina pectoris should sleep in a bed with an inclination of 10- 15 degrees. The upper body is high and the lower body is low, which reduces the blood returning from the inferior vena cava and is beneficial to heart rest.
Advantages of the right position:
It can relax the muscles of the whole body, make breathing comfortable, and minimize the physiological functions of the heart, lungs and gastrointestinal tract. At this time, the heart is not oppressed, and the lungs breathe naturally, which can ensure the oxygen needed by the body during sleep; Because the outlet of the stomach is below, it helps to expel the contents of the stomach.
Disadvantages of right lateral position:
However, lying on the right side will compress the right limb, affect the blood return, and cause discomfort such as pain and numbness.
Lateral position is easy to cause cerebral thrombosis.
Analysis: It can aggravate the blood flow disorder in patients with cerebral infarction under the condition of arteriosclerosis, especially in the neck, where the blood flow velocity is slow and it is easy to gradually gather in the intima injury of artery to form thrombus.
Correct guidance: Experts surveyed 2000 patients with cerebral infarction and found that more than 95% of them are used to lying on their side, which created convenient conditions for the formation of cerebral thrombosis. Therefore, in order to eliminate this hidden danger, it is more appropriate to choose a suitable pillow height and sleep on your back.
Too low a pillow can easily lead to high blood pressure.
Analysis: Because the pillow is too low, it will increase the cerebral blood flow, which will promote the formation of hypertension for a long time, and it will feel uncomfortable if it is too high.
Correct guidance: it is advisable to sleep in a flat position with pillows. Pillows are generally about 15 cm high.
In addition, emphysema should also pay attention to your sleeping position!
pneumonectasis
Correct guidance: Patients with emphysema should lie on their backs, raise their heads, and extend their hands slightly upward to keep breathing smoothly. Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis should lie on their side, which is conducive to coughing up blood in the trachea.
Advantages of supine position:
In supine position, the contact area between the limbs and the bed is the largest, which is not easy to fatigue and is beneficial to the blood circulation of the limbs and brain.
Disadvantages of supine position:
However, some middle-aged and elderly people, especially obese elderly people, tend to make their tongue roots fall backwards when they are in supine position, resulting in poor breathing and snoring. Severe snoring will not only affect the rest of others, but also affect the gas exchange in the lungs, causing hypoxemia. At the same time, when lying on your back, your hands are easy to put on your chest to oppress your heart and have nightmares. Therefore, it is not advisable to choose the left lateral position and prone position when sleeping. It is better to sleep in the right lateral position, followed by the supine position. Middle-aged and elderly people who are prone to snoring and those with gastritis, indigestion and gastroptosis had better choose the right lateral position.