Patients may have backache, insomnia, dreaminess, palpitation, chest tightness, dyspnea and other symptoms. In severe cases, the condition may be aggravated and even life-threatening.
Healthy people: the position of human heart is to the left, so healthy people had better not take the left position. When sleeping on your back, don't put your hands on your chest to avoid heart oppression and nightmares. When sleeping on your side, you should prevent the pillow from pressing the parotid gland and causing salivation. For a healthy person, the best position to sleep should be the right lateral position or the right supine position, which will not oppress the heart, but also help to relax the limbs.
Heart patient: It's better to sleep on the right. Because the heart is in the left chest position, sleeping to the right will make more blood flow to the right, thus reducing the burden on the heart. If heart failure has occurred, you can use a semi-lying position to relieve dyspnea, and avoid lying prone or lying on the left. Patients with coronary heart disease and angina pectoris should sleep in a bed with an inclination of l0-L5. The upper body is high and the lower body is low, which reduces the blood returning from the inferior vena cava and is beneficial to heart rest.
Hypertensive patients: It is best to lie on your back or side. In particular, choose a pillow with a suitable height, which is generally around l 5 cm. Too low a pillow will increase blood flow to the brain, and too high a pillow will make you feel uncomfortable.
Patients with cerebral thrombosis: More than 95% of patients with cerebral thrombosis are used to lying on their side, which aggravates the blood disorder, especially the slow blood flow in the neck, which is easy to gradually gather in the intima injury of arteries to form thrombus. In order to eliminate this hidden danger, it is more appropriate to sleep on your back.
Chronic patients with stroke or long-term bedridden: If family members neglect to take care of them, patients are always allowed to sleep on their backs, and bedsores are easy to grow on their backs and buttocks. Therefore, the best way is to let the patient turn over every two hours, from lying flat to lying on his side or prone. If the bedsore grows in the ilium, you can't lie on your side, mainly lying on your back and prone. Adjusting sleeping posture can also help patients to expel phlegm, so that sputum will not accumulate on the posterior lung wall. In addition, those with muscle, joint and bone marrow diseases should adjust their sleeping posture in time.
Gastropathy patients: Gastropathy mainly includes gastric ulcer, various gastritis, digestive dysfunction and so on. For these people, it is best to sleep on the right. Anatomically speaking, the great bend of the stomach and the outlet from the stomach to the duodenum and from the small intestine to the large intestine are on the left. Therefore, sleeping on the right side will not oppress these organs, which is beneficial to the smooth operation of food in the digestive tract from top to bottom. However, patients with digestive dysfunction such as esophageal reflux had better sleep on the left side. If you sleep on the right side, the amount of gastric acid flowing back from the stomach to the esophagus will be much more than normal, and it will continue, which will easily cause burning pain in the stomach. In addition, if people with indigestion sleep on the right side, food will fall into the duodenum more easily by gravity, which can help digestion.