What are the harms of holding your breath while sleeping on your stomach?

Many people often sleep on their stomachs at night because they have developed this habit. Even if someone turns them over, they will crawl back to sleep after a while. It is easy to hold your breath when sleeping on your stomach, and in severe cases it may cause suffocation. So what are the dangers of holding your breath when sleeping on your stomach? Let me introduce it to you below!

Sleeping on your stomach often can cause harm to your health:

1. Affects breathing. Because the prone sleeping posture causes difficulty in breathing, the oxygen supply in the body will naturally be insufficient. Postures that compress the chest can also induce various heart diseases.

2. The prone sleeping posture will press on the eyeballs, making the eyes prone to congestion and causing increased intraocular pressure. Temporary blurred vision often occurs after waking up, which is especially important for people with high myopia.

3. After falling asleep, a person's heart rate will gradually slow down, the blood flowing through various tissues will also become relatively slower, and the blood flowing into the brain will be less than usual. After lunch, more blood will enter the gastrointestinal tract to help digestion. Sleeping on your stomach will aggravate brain ischemia, and eventually lead to symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, weak legs and numbness in the feet.

4. If the head is resting on the arm for a long time, the blood circulation in the arm will be blocked and nerve conduction will be affected, which can easily cause symptoms such as numbness and soreness in the arm.

5. It affects digestion. Most people eat more at noon, and it takes about 3 hours to digest this food. Taking a nap lying down right after lunch can easily cause stomach bloating.

If you often sleep on your stomach, it will affect your breathing, induce various heart diseases, and also affect your eyes. Therefore, when you sleep, you must ensure the correct sleeping posture. Lying on your back is the best way to sleep. It is important to develop a good sleeping posture. If you have the habit of sleeping on your stomach, you should correct yourself as soon as possible to avoid affecting your body.