Pillow is generally composed of two parts of the pillow core, pillowcase, is a sleep tool when we sleep, in general, but also for people to sleep comfort and the use of filler, modern medical research, the human spine from the front is a straight line, but the side is a curve with three physiological bending, in order to protect the neck's normal physiological curvature, to maintain the normal physiological activities of people sleeping, sleep shall be used when the pillow. If we talk about the origin of the pillow, to be traced back to a long time ago, from ancient times to the present, people sleep on top of the pillow is the most comfortable position, then how to sleep we should correctly use the pillow?
1. how to correctly use the pillow: reasonable height
Generally speaking, people with high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma need to sleep high pillow, suffering from low blood pressure, anemia, people need to sleep low pillow, but the pillow is too high or too low on human health is not good, so in general, used to lying on their backs pillow high fist, used to sleeping on the side of the pillow high fist and a half is more appropriate.
According to medical research, healthy people in 8 hours of sleep, posture change about 20-45 times, and half of the posture in less than 5 minutes to change once, of which 60% is lying on the back, 35% is lying on the side, 5% is lying on the top, so although the height of the pillow that people need often varies from person to person, with each person tall or short, fat or thin, shoulder width and narrowness, head circumference, the length of the neck neck curvature, there is no certain standard, but generally people sleep due to the use of pillow height of a fist, used to side sleeping people pillow height of a fist and a half is more appropriate. But the general sleep due to the use of supine position more time, the general doctor will recommend the use of a little more than a fist height is appropriate, should not reach a fist and a half of the height.
2. how to correctly use the pillow: reasonable hardnessHarder pillow is good for human health, but too hard pillow so that the head and pillow contact surface is too little, local pressure is too large, so that people feel uncomfortable, and this is likely to cause too much compression of local nerves, in the next morning to produce head, neck, back, arms, hands and other places of numbness or pain and other symptoms. Too soft pillow is difficult to maintain the height of the pillow, because too fluffy on the scalp compression area is large, not conducive to blood circulation, there is also the problem of poor breathability, can not ensure adequate breathing during sleep, there may also be security risks.So pillow soft and hard to moderate, different sleeping positions pillow height is not the same, must pay attention to, we lie on our backs as well as side lying pillow height are about 15-20cm or so, in order to the health of the cervical spine, the need for rational choice of pillows.
3. how to use the pillow correctly: breathability and elasticityPillow breathability and elasticity mainly for soft body pillow core material pillow, because other filling materials such as cassia, silkworm sand, grains, elastic tubes, etc. can ensure that most of the pillow breathability is good, there is no elasticity will not collapse, but soft body materials such as vacuum cotton, cotton, sponge, etc. Generally, there may be poor breathability, elasticity is poor problem. According to medical research, prone position in each person's sleep process occupies a certain proportion, the breathability of the pillow will make the sleep of people breathing poorly, thus seriously affecting the physical health of people may even cause safety problems.Good elasticity mainly refers to the soft body pillow core material can avoid the collapse of the pillow, to ensure that the pillow for a long time to ensure the comfortable use of the pillow, increase the neck bending of the support force, but the elasticity of the pillow also exists in the sleep posture is not stable shortcomings, the best pillow needs moderate elasticity, moderate support force.
4.how to correctly use the pillow: reasonable positionSleeping head on the pillow in a reasonable position is very important, in general, the head is best placed in the center of the pillow on the position, so that one can stabilize the sleep posture, to avoid frequent changes in posture during the night caused by pillows, etc., and secondly, you can let the neck have a certain degree of support, to maintain the body's normal physiological curve.Normal sleeping position is to lie on your back with your head in the middle of the pillow, the neck is placed on the edge of the pillow, the pillow will play a supportive role on the neck, will not cause cervical spine pressure.
