Good sleeping posture can relax body and mind, improve sleep, and make people energetically devote themselves to study and work. Generally speaking, there are three sleeping positions, namely, prone, supine and lateral. What is the best sleeping position? Bai Yaping, chief physician of the First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, pointed out that from a medical point of view, the right position is better. This is because when lying on your back, your body is straight and your muscles can't relax. If you put your hand over your head, your muscles will be more tense and you won't get a good rest. At the same time, when sleeping on your back, the root of your tongue is easy to oppress the pharynx, causing snoring, and saliva is easy to flow into the trachea, causing cough. When sleeping on one's stomach, the chest and abdomen are compressed, which will affect the cardiopulmonary function and even make it difficult to breathe. At the same time, because the face is pressed on the stomach, the blood circulation of the face is not smooth, which will make the face dark yellow for a long time and affect the appearance. Lying on the side can avoid this situation, while lying on the right side can also prevent the heart from being compressed, thus maintaining a good blood supply.
But the so-called good sleeping position is not static, it should be in line with everyone's different specific situation. Director Bai Yaping introduced that patients with emphysema, for example, should lie on their backs, look up and keep the respiratory tract unobstructed; Those with reflux esophagitis and heartburn symptoms should also look up slightly during sleep to alleviate the symptoms; In patients with suppurative otitis media, the affected ear should face down to facilitate the discharge of purulent secretions. Generally speaking, under normal circumstances, you should choose to lie on the right side, and under special circumstances, you should improvise.
Good sleep is an important sign of health. In addition to choosing a suitable sleeping position, doctors remind that it is also essential to establish regular living habits to improve the quality of sleep, such as reducing staying up late, going to bed early and getting up early, and strengthening physical exercise. These seemingly ordinary methods, as long as they persist, can get surprising results. Every little makes a mickle. In fact, the coming of health lies in the accumulation of life.