A high-quality sleep, minus one day of fatigue, is one of the most important life needs of modern people. Therefore, the suitability of the pillow is particularly important. The doctor reminds everyone that it is not worry-free.
Western medicine: Pillows are too high or too low are not good for the cervical spine
Dr. Liu Rui from Beijing Puren Hospital said that the main function of the pillow is to maintain the normal physiological curve of the human body and ensure that the physiological curvature of the neck is not deformed during sleep. If the pillow is too high, the pressure on the neck will be too large; too high a pillow will cause the cervical vertebra to lean forward, and some parts of the cervical vertebrae will be overstressed, destroying the normal physiological anterior curvature of the cervical vertebrae, compressing the cervical and vertebral arteries, causing the neck Department of soreness, head hypoxia, headache, dizziness, tinnitus and insomnia, etc., and prone to bone hyperplasia. If the pillow is too low, the neck will not be able to relax, but will destroy the normal curvature of the cervical spine. Therefore, if the pillow is too high or too low, it will affect the cervical vertebrae and cause various neck symptoms.
Chinese medicine: low pillow is easy to cause insufficient blood supply
Dr. Wang Zhiming, the third hospital of the Armed Police Beijing Hospital, said that high pillows are easy to cause cervical spondylosis. Many patients with stiff necks are due to sleeping too high pillows; low pillows are easy to cause imbalance of blood supply, causing nasal mucosa congestion and swelling, while nasal mucosa is very sensitive and swollen. It will affect your breathing. If the neck and shoulders are sore after awakening, it may be caused by a pillow that is too low or not.
Common advice from Chinese and Western medicine:
1. Generally speaking, the height of the pillow is 10-15 cm, and the specific size depends on the physiological curvature of each person.
2. The hardness of the pillow should be moderate. Generally, buckwheat husk, gluten, and pudding pillows are better choices.
3. The length of the pillow is preferably wider than the shoulder under normal conditions. Don't sleep too small a pillow, because when you turn over, the pillow can't support the neck, and the small pillow can affect the sense of safety during sleep.
4. The pillow core should have a soft feeling and good elasticity, breathability, moisture resistance, moisture absorption and the like.
Pillow: How high is it?
Pillows are our closest partner when we sleep, but if this intimate partner is used improperly, it will affect our health. To this end, experts suggest that in order to have a healthy sleep, it is best to check that your pillow is not suitable.
High pillow is easy to cause cervical spondylosis
The ancients cloud: sit back and relax. However, Lu Kuiyuan, director of the Department of Orthopaedics of the Beijing Hospital of the Ministry of Health, told the reporter that there are many patients with stiff neck in the clinic because of sleeping too high a pillow. If the pillow you sleep is too high, it will change the normal physiological curvature of the cervical spine, causing muscle fatigue damage and ligaments to pull strain, causing spasms, inflammation, etc., and neck and shoulder pain, hand numbness, dizziness and other symptoms. Clinically, high pillow is one of the common causes of stiff neck and cervical spondylosis.
Low pillow makes blood supply imbalance
It is not good to have a high pillow. Is it better to use a low pillow or simply not to use a pillow? The road director said that a pillow is too low or no pillow is not good for health. Some people suffer from cervical spondylosis and think that it is easy to recover without a pillow. In fact, this idea is unscientific. Without a pillow, when the person is lying on his back, he is over-rearing and easy to breathe, which leads to dry mouth, dry tongue, sore throat and snoring. If the pillow is not lying on the side, the neck muscles on the other side will be paralyzed and painful due to excessive stretching and fatigue, and a "slung pillow" will appear.
Too low a pillow will also make the blood supply less balanced, which may cause congestion and swelling of the nasal mucosa, while the nasal mucosa is very sensitive, and a swelling will affect the breathing. If the neck and shoulders are sore after awakening, it may be caused by a pillow that is too low or not.
So, how high is the pillow?
In ancient Chinese medical books, it was pointed out that "the size of the upper part is such that the side is just like the shoulder level, that is, the supine position is also comfortable." That is to say, the height of the pillow is preferably maintained at the level of the head and the trunk when lying on the back, that is, when lying on the back. The pillow is high and punches. When lying on the side, the pillow is one punch and a half high. In general, the height of the pillow is 10-15 cm, and the specific size depends on the physiological curvature of each person.
Soft and hard
In addition to the height of the pillow, experts believe that the hardness of the pillow should also be noted. The pillow is too hard, the contact area with the head is small, the pressure is increased, and the scalp is uncomfortable; on the contrary, the pillow is too soft, it is difficult to maintain a certain height, the neck muscle is easy to fatigue, and it is not conducive to sleep, and the head is trapped in it, affecting blood circulation. Therefore, the pillow should be slightly softer without losing a certain hardness.
The pillow should also have a certain elasticity. If the pillow is too elastic, the head will continue to be subjected to external elastic force, resulting in muscle fatigue and damage. Such as "spring pillow", "air pillow", etc., can not be regarded as a healthy pillow.
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