What happens when you sleep on your side and can t breathe?

Many people wake up from sleep and feel dizzy, back pain, and exhaustion, mainly because of improper sleeping posture.

Supine is the most common sleeping position. Traditional Chinese medicine calls this sleeping position a corpse lying down, and with this sleeping position, the body and lower limbs can only be fixed in the straight part, and the purpose of resting the whole body cannot be achieved. When the pressure in the abdominal cavity increases, lying on the back is easy to make people feel chest tightness and panic. Lying on your back like this, you will also consciously or unconsciously put your hands on your chest, which will put pressure on your heart and lungs, and you will be prone to nightmares.

When lying on the stomach, most of the weight of the whole body is pressed on the ribs and abdomen, which compresses the chest and diaphragm, affects breathing, and increases the workload of the heart. Prone also increases the curvature of the lumbar spine, causing pressure on the facet joints behind the spine. When lying on your stomach, twist your neck to the side to tilt your head to one side, which can easily cause damage to your neck muscles.

When lying on the left side, the legs are slightly bent, although it is conducive to body relaxation and helps to eliminate fatigue, but the heart is located between the left and right lungs in the chest cavity and is on the left side, and the exit of the stomach to the duodenum and the small intestine to the large intestine are on the left side, so when lying on the left side, not only the heart is squeezed, but also the stomach and intestines are compressed, and the gastric emptying is slowed down.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the correct sleeping position should be to lie on the right side with the legs slightly bent. In this way, the heart is high and not compressed; The liver is in a low position, the blood supply is better, and it is conducive to metabolism; The food in the stomach is pushed towards the duodenum by gravity, which can promote digestion and absorption.

At the same time, the whole body is in a relaxed state, breathing evenly, the heartbeat slows down, and the brain, heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, muscles, and bones are fully rested and oxygen-supplied.

Of course, for a healthy person, there is no need to be overly rigid about their sleeping position, because overnight, people often cannot maintain a fixed position to sleep until dawn, and the vast majority of people are constantly changing their sleeping positions, which is more conducive to relieving fatigue.

Your sleeping phase is caused by poor blood circulation.

The change in posture will affect whether it is difficult to breathe, which is a protective response of the body, and it is speculated that you may have a lesion on one side, such as atelectasis, pleural adhesions, pneumothorax, ascites, cardiac lesions, etc.

Suggestions: Take color photos of chest DR, liver, gallbladder and spleen to see if there are any lesions of internal organs, such as liver cirrhosis, pulmonary edema, etc., and temporarily maintain a side-lying posture to facilitate normal breathing.

Dyspnea is a combination of subjective sensation and objective signs, with patients subjectively feeling inhalation insufficiency and labored breathing, and objectively manifesting as changes in respiratory rate, rhythm, and depth. In severe cases, mouth breathing, nasal flaring, orthopnea, and even cyanosis may occur. Dyspnea is one of the main clinical symptoms of respiratory failure.

**: 1. Respiratory diseases, airway obstruction, lung diseases, chest wall, thoracic and pleural diseases, diaphragmatic diseases and movement limitations.

2. Cardiovascular system diseases, heart failure, cardiac tamponade, constrictive pericarditis, etc.

3. Miscellaneous. Obesity, acidosis, acute infection, blood diseases, etc. can also cause respiratory failure.

Hello, according to your description, it may be cardiac neurosis, which is a functional disease of the heart, and we cannot confirm the diagnosis through examination, but need to confirm the diagnosis through the tongue coating and symptoms.

There is no necessary relationship between apnea and sleeping position. It is recommended that you eat a reasonable diet, increase or decrease exercise, be reasonable**, and go to the hospital for necessary examinations. Listen to your doctor's advice before you go further**.

It has nothing to do with the respiratory system. It's more like an autonomic nervous system disorder. Because the food is too greasy, too salty, and the work is disordered, right?

Pay attention to normal work and rest, stop eating cheese, eat less oil, eat light, chickens can only eat chicken breasts, not skin, and other parts. It's best not to eat eggs either. Eat more.

There is also the amount, do not eat more than the size of your palm of meat (not counting fingers), no matter what kind of meat, chicken, goose, duck, pig, fish, cattle and sheep can not exceed this amount, not enough to eat vegetables, eat slowly, do not feel hungry to stop.

Too fat. **。

Do a physical examination.

It is recommended to go to the hospital to find a doctor for instructions or to check the respiratory system.