My hands and feet feel numb when I sleep on my stomach

In life, everyone has a different sleeping posture. Some people like to sleep on their side, some like to sleep lying down, and some like to sleep on their stomach. In fact, no matter which sleeping posture, how to sleep comfortably is best for you. Some people experience numbness in their hands and feet when they sleep on their stomach. In most cases, this is a normal phenomenon. Sleeping on your stomach can easily lead to blood circulation problems, which can cause local nerve numbness.

What are the dangers of sleeping on your stomach?

1. Sleeping on your stomach can hurt your cervical spine

In fact, we can find that no matter you sleep on the bed or on the table, the cervical spine is actually in a twisted and deformed shape. In order to sleep comfortably, sleeping on your stomach will make the curvature of the cervical spine very different from the normal curvature of the cervical spine. This will cause the blood to be squeezed in the cervical spine and difficult to flow, which will cause the cervical spine to be injured due to congestion.

Once a man's cervical spine is injured, it will not only be very painful, but he may also experience uncomfortable symptoms such as dizziness and nausea. At this time, the man can only go to the hospital and ask the doctor to help correct and reposition the spine.

2. Sleeping on your stomach hurts your arms

Although there are various kinds of pillows for sale online, men prefer the feeling of being able to fall asleep without wearing anything. Therefore, once a man sleeps on his stomach, his head will rest on his arms, using his arms as pillows.

If you sleep like this for a short time, your arms will usually feel numb and sore in half an hour. This is because resting your head on your arms will affect the blood circulation in your arms, which will hinder the blood circulation in your arms and affect the nerve conduction in your arms, which will cause numbness and soreness in your arms. If you sleep for a long time, it will be very bad for your arms. If your arms are in such a state of blood and nerve compression for a long time, they may even lose sensation in your arms!

In recent years, the hospital has received quite a few patients who suffered arm nerve necrosis or even required amputation due to sleeping in a prone position for a long time. If a limb is amputated because of sleeping on one's stomach, it is definitely the last thing a man wants to face.

3. Sleeping on your stomach causes vision loss

When you sleep on your stomach, do you feel that everything in front of you is blurry and you can't see anything clearly when you open your eyes when you wake up? In fact, this is because when you sleep on your stomach, your head is tilted on your arms, which causes your eyeballs to be squeezed, causing them to swell and affect the optic nerves, resulting in such temporary blurred vision.

However, if you often sleep on your stomach, your eyeballs will be under long-term pressure, causing frequent damage to the eye nerves. This will lead to decreased vision, blurry or even double vision, and in severe cases, you may have to undergo laser treatment to restore your vision.

4. Sleeping on your stomach will make you feel more tired

In fact, sleeping on your stomach is a very unhealthy sleeping position, and it is also a sleeping position that medical experts advise everyone not to adopt. This is because sleeping on your stomach will destroy the effect of sleep, that is, the effect of replenishing energy will be destroyed. Simply put, sleeping on your stomach will not only fail to restore a person's energy, but will make people feel more tired the more they sleep.

This is because when you sleep on your stomach, your whole body is not in a straight shape and your cervical spine is twisted. This causes congestion in the body's blood circulation in the cervical spine, which can cause cervical spondylosis, as the editor has just said.

Once the blood is congested in the cervical vertebrae, the brain will feel tired due to insufficient blood supply, resulting in low oxygen content. Although sleeping on your stomach allows people to fall asleep, the brain is always in a tired state. After waking up, you will not only feel dizzy and have a headache, but the whole person's energy is not restored or improved at all.

In addition, sleeping is something that allows the muscles of the whole body to relax. That is to say, when the muscles of the whole body are relaxed, we will sleep very comfortably. However, when sleeping on our stomach, the muscles of the neck, shoulders and arms are not relaxed, so after waking up, the muscles in these parts will be particularly sore, and the whole person will feel more tired the more he sleeps.

5. Sleeping on your stomach is bad for your stomach

Many men choose to lie on the table and take a nap after dinner. In fact, this will affect digestion.

Because when you sleep on your stomach, trapped in this sleeping position, the blood from the brain cannot reach the stomach. In order to digest food, the stomach and intestines must use the help of blood from the brain, which makes it difficult to digest food in the stomach.

In addition, when sleeping on your stomach, all the internal organs are pressed under the man's weight. Men tend to be heavier, which leads to more serious compression of the internal organs, especially the stomach. When the stomach is compressed, its function cannot function normally and stomach motility is hindered, making food difficult to digest. Symptoms of bloating will appear, thereby damaging the health of the stomach.