The way you sleep is a habit you develop from childhood. All lie on the bed, sleep in the way whatever they like. However, there is a lot of knowledge about sleeping positions. Bad sleeping positions can also have health implications.
The position you sleep in can have a huge impact on your health and appearance, so start being more careful about how you sleep today.
Freestyle sleeping position
Advantages:
- The whole body stretch, relax.
Disadvantages:
- Elbow joints, thigh muscles fatigue, affect blood circulation.
Lie on
Advantages:
- 60% of people choose to sleep on their back because it does not press the internal organs of the body, which is a guarantee of sleep quality.
- Relieve back pain
- Help to care for the skin. Facial skin relaxation; Isolated face and pillow contact, reduce bacteria, mites, dandruff interference.
Disadvantages:
- The root of the tongue will press the pharynx due to gravity, causing snoring, drooling, drooling into the trachea will cause coughing; Even sleep apnea.
Advice: For those who prefer to sleep on their back, it is best to choose a strong pillow to prevent neck and shoulder pain caused by excessive pressure on the neck and upper spine. Snoring people can put a pillow on their back to help change the sleeping position.
Curled up type
Advantages:
- Relieve physical pressure, suitable for pressure, physical and mental fatigue.
Disadvantages:
- Muscle strain. Crouching causes excessive pulling on the back.
- Back, head and neck pressure, habitual hunchback.
- Restrict the diaphragm in the body and breathing difficulty.
Lying down to sleep
Warning: This is the worst sleeping position and is never recommended by medical experts.
Disadvantages:
- Physical pain. When lying prone, the head must be turned to one side for easy breathing, which can easily cause symptoms such as headache, stiff neck and shoulder discomfort.
- Spinal curvature, dislocation.
- Increase muscle and joint pressure.
- Compression of the chest, breast.
- Poor breathing.
Left side
Warning: a sleeping position prone to sudden death.
Lying on the left side is easy to compress the heart, increase the burden on the heart, affect blood circulation, and may cause sudden death in sleep. Middle-aged and elderly people, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, are high-risk groups.
Advantages:
- Relieve stomach upset. Heartburn symptoms can get worse at night, and this position can help significantly reduce the amount of acid flowing into your oesophagus, reducing the pain of heartburn.
- Fall asleep quickly.
- Breathe smoothly and reduce snoring
- Suitable for pregnant mothers in late pregnancy.
Disadvantages:
- Pull facial skin, easy to produce wrinkles
Right side
Right side, healthiest sleeping position!
Advantages:
- Good for the heart, reduce blood pressure, stable heartbeat.
- Protect your brain. It helps rid the brain of “waste” and prevent dementia.
Disadvantages:
- Squeeze your face. To grow the child of development, long-term this kind of posture is easy to cause left and right face asymmetry.
