Say rest easy, but really sleep pillow every day, the cervical spine can not stand it!
Mr. Ma Hubei love to sleep high pillows, and even the use of two or three pillow overlay, sleep 5 years after he began to appear numb and other symptoms, the final step even walking step are not open to the hospital as soon as an examination found cervical spine Serious stenosis, and severe oppression of cervical bone marrow, paralyzed at any time. Fortunately, timely surgery, was able to recover.
In fact, the pillow is not good, not only cervical spondylosis, stiff neck and other problems, and even headache, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and other symptoms may be the wrong pillow and the wrong choice!
How to sleep pillow?
Medically speaking, 'pillow' should be called 'pillow neck' more appropriate because the pillow is actually used to pillow the neck, if you only head back on the wrong.
After sleeping, the pillow should be about the equivalent of a fist high, so as to support the neck well, let the neck naturally bent, muscle relax.
How to choose your own pillow?
Look at the level: the height of the pillow and there is no uniform standard, it and everyone's fat and thin, shoulder width, neck length are related.
But there is a principle: whether it is supine position or lateral position, when lying down, the chin and forehead should be in the horizontal plane, so that the human cervical spine is in a more appropriate physiological curvature.
Note: People with high blood pressure, heart disease and asthma should try their best to make their pillows as tall as those who suffer from hypotension and anemia.
Select the length and width: length and width is also the focus of the selection of pillows, it is recommended adult pillow length of 50 to 70 cm, the width of not less than 30 cm.
Pillow selection: Pillow can not use large pieces of cotton or sponge, it is best filled with finer particles, you can well shape, while the pillow also have some water absorption, so you can absorb sweat, Keep the neck dry.
Recommend two natural pillow
Soybean: Soybean's toughness is similar to that of the human body's bones. It has a good supportive effect on the physiological curvature of the cervical spine. The rolling of soybeans can also have a massaging effect on the disorder of the cervical facet joint and the muscle spasm of the ligaments.
Buckwheat skin: This is the most common pillow, soft and hard, plastic and water absorption are good, but also relatively light. The disadvantage is less flexible and pillow sound when turning over, for people with poor sleep may affect Fall asleep
Chronic diseases point of choice Chinese medicine pillow
1, insomnia: optional vanilla, wild chrysanthemum or soaked tea dried to do after the pillow, fragrant, help to sleep comfortably.
2, high blood pressure or anger people: available mung bean, chrysanthemum, cassia seed pillow, heat, eyesight, cure headache effect.
3, crying night, exuberant lung fire: silkworm excrement (silkworm excrement drying out) is an extremely rare pillow filler, cool and defeated fire, the town scared Xifeng effect to crying children use silkworm sand pillow Core, soothe the nerves; to the prosperous who use the lungs, there Qingre cooling effect.
This article references: ① Health Times "good sleep will pick a good pillow"
