A person's life is about one-third of the time spent in sleep, but you know what kind of sleeping position is good for health?
Experts say that the choice of sleeping position is different for each individual, but people with high blood pressure, heart disease and stomach and liver diseases, the choice of sleep should be cautious.
People's sleeping position is generally divided into supine, prone, left and right side lying four kinds.
Data show that about 60% of people choose supine sleeping position, about 25% of the people choose right side, about 10% of the people choose left side, about 5% of the people choose prone (lying on the bed).
Lin Song, director of cardiac medicine, Nanjing First Hospital
For ordinary people, no matter what kind of sleep position you choose, as long as you feel more fit is possible.
The heart is located in the chest between the two lungs and left, the body to the left side, will let the heart organs in a relatively low position, in this case, will lead to a large increase in the blood volume in the heart, thereby greatly increasing the burden of the heart. So the left recumbent is not a proper sleeping position for people with heart-based disease;
For people with cardiopulmonary dysfunction, this sleeping posture can also cause an accident.
The stomach leads to the duodenum, and the small intestine exits to the left side, so the left side of the bed not only squeezes the heart, but also the gastrointestinal pressure, and the gastric emptying slows down.
Lin Song, director of cardiac medicine, Nanjing First Hospital
Left lying in patients with stomach diseases, acute liver disease, gallstones are not suitable for the use.
On the overweight, especially to sleep snoring, supine position will cause the back of the tongue, aggravating the obstruction of the respiratory tract, so supine for them, is not a proper posture.
Lin Song suggests that the best sleeping position is recommended on the right-hand recumbent. On the right side of the bedroom, the human heart, digestive system, etc. are in a relatively high position, this will be more comfortable;
In addition to the heart insufficiency of patients, high pillow is also a better posture, it will relieve the burden of the heart.
In daily life, many people like to sleep on their tummy, this posture will bring pressure to the whole body, will let a feeling of numbness and pain.
Since lying on the bed, face is facing down, in order to breathe, the face must turn left or right, so that the neck under great pressure, and the spine is not supported, can cause neck and back pain.
If you are accustomed to sleeping on your tummy, it is better to choose a flat pillow that will relieve the pressure on your neck. Lying on the bed when most of the weight of the body pressure in the ribs and abdomen, so that the chest pressure, easy to burden the heart, the symptoms of poor breathing, severe suffocation.
If this sleep posture can be avoided, try not to choose.
When you have a headache, the best way to sleep is to lie flat and put a small pillow on both sides of the neck to prevent the neck from twisting when you fall asleep. When the neck pain patient sleeps, try to use the low sleeper supine position. can choose to use a towel, roll into a roll, placed under the neck to give some support to the cervical spine.
If you are concerned that the towel roll will move, you can put it in the pillowcase. Proper sleep posture during back pain can be a good way to relax back muscles and relieve pain.
When lying flat, the back is more relaxed, if you put a pillow under the knee, put a towel on the waist of a small support roll, you can keep the spine to maintain the best bending posture, relieve back pain the best effect.
