Sleep posture should be conducive to sleep, sleep naturally and comfortably. Many medical scientists have always thought that the right lateral position is better. This is mainly due to human physiological structure. The human heart is located on the left side of the chest, the openings of the gastrointestinal tract are all on the right side, and the liver is also located in the right quarter. If you lie on your side, you can relieve the pressure on your heart. If your heart pressure is low, it will be beneficial to the pumping of blood, increase the blood supply flow of organs such as stomach and liver, and be beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food and the metabolism of human body.
Moreover, lying on the right side is conducive to the relaxation of the muscles of the whole body, because lying on the right side makes the spine bend forward like a bow and the limbs can stretch comfortably.
Although the correct posture is the best prone posture, it also varies from person to person. For example, infants and young children should not sleep in a posture for a long time; For some patients with diseases, it is also impossible to mechanically force them to lie on the right side.
Disease and sleeping position:
1. Cerebral thrombosis: Most of these patients are used to lying on their side, which aggravates the blood disorder on the basis of their own arteriosclerosis, especially the slow blood flow in the neck, which is easy to gradually gather in the injury of the inner wall of the artery and form a thrombus. In order to eliminate this hidden danger, it is best to lie on your back.
2. Emphysema: The patient should lie on his back, raise his head, and stretch his hands slightly upward at the same time to keep breathing smoothly.
3. Gastropathy: Patients with gastric ulcer should advocate lying on the left side. If you lie on your right side, the reflux of gastric acid from the stomach to the esophagus is greater than the normal flow, which will cause burning pain in the stomach.
4. Hypertension: supine position should be adopted, with pillow height of 8 cm. Too high or too low can easily cause discomfort.
5. Heart disease: those with good cardiac compensation function can lie on the right side to reduce the pressure on the heart. If heart failure has occurred, you can use a semi-recumbent position to reduce breathing difficulties and avoid left or prone.
6. suppurative otitis media: insist on lying on the side of the affected ear in the early stage to facilitate pus discharge and shorten the course of disease.
7. Hepatobiliary diseases: Patients with acute and chronic hepatitis and gallstones should lie on the left side, which is conducive to the improvement of their condition.