Whether you need a pillow when sleeping depends on the specific situation, as follows: 1. The patient has cervical spondylosis, so it is recommended to use a low pillow. The standard of low pillow is the height of fist. Even if the patient lies on his side, he can ensure the correct position of the spine and cervical vertebra and prevent the deterioration of cervical spondylosis; 2. The patient has apnea at night and snores badly. Too low a pillow will cause your tongue to lean back. Therefore, for this part of patients, it is recommended to use a slightly higher pillow to avoid aggravating snoring and aspiration pneumonia due to falling tongue when lying flat, and it is also recommended to lie on your side.

In order to keep healthy, remember to lie down when you sleep. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wind is one of the six evils, and it is the easiest to invade the human body and cause disease. When sleeping, the head is facing the door, window and tuyere, which is easy to make wind evil invade the meridians and cause facial paralysis and other diseases. Remember to put your head on fire when you sleep. Sleeping on the fire can easily lead to excessive internal heat, dry throat, nosebleeds and even headaches. Burying your head in front of a fire to sleep is easy to block heat energy and cause physical discomfort. Avoid covering your head and opening your mouth when you sleep. Sleeping with your head covered and your mouth open is a bad habit in sleep. Covering your head and inhaling turbid breath through your nose, clear air can't enter your body. When the mouth is open, dust enters the body, which can make the kidneys and lungs breathe unsteadily.

Precautions for sleeping

The clothes we wear when we sleep, or what we put around you, will have an impact on sleep. Therefore, sleeping is a very noteworthy thing. Do you wear these things when you sleep? Let's take a look!

1. It is not allowed to sleep with "teeth" and swallow braces by mistake.

Some people have no teeth and live on dentures, but such people actually let their dentures sleep with them at night. In fact, this is very incorrect, because it is very likely that dentures will be swallowed when sleeping, endangering people's lives.

Therefore, people who wear dentures had better take them off and clean them before going to bed, which is not only beneficial to oral hygiene, but also safe to sleep.

2. Sleeping with a "machine", cell phone radiation is really life-threatening.

Experts pointed out that all kinds of electronic equipment, such as color TV, refrigerator, mobile phone and so on. In the process of use and operation, a large number of electromagnetic waves with different wavelengths and frequencies are released, forming electronic fog, which affects the disorder of human nervous system and physiological function. Although the release is very small, it is inevitable.