Six major hazards of wearing a bra to sleep

In daily life, many women have the habit of wearing bras to sleep. Although wearing bras to sleep is a common phenomenon, it will have some effects on women's physical health. Women have been wearing bras all day during the day, and the breasts need some relief at night. Wearing a bra for 24 hours will aggravate the damage to the breasts, and wearing a bra to sleep will also affect women's breathing.

Obstruction of breathing

The pressure and restraint of the bra while sleeping affects the movement of the diaphragm, which in turn affects breathing. Especially for patients with respiratory diseases, such as emphysema, asthma, bronchiectasis, etc., the patients themselves have difficulty breathing, and sleeping at night plus the pressure of the bra will undoubtedly aggravate the condition.

Affects sleep

Wearing a bra while sleeping will cause discomfort, making it difficult for the body and mind to relax safely, thus causing difficulty in falling asleep and affecting sleep.

Damage to the skin

Wearing a bra when sleeping at night is not breathable, which is not conducive to the secretion of sebaceous glands and sweat glands, affects the excretion and regeneration of the skin, and is more likely to damage the skin.

Affects breast development

Wearing a bra for a long time will compress the breasts, causing poor blood circulation in local tissues, metabolic disorders, and affecting breast development. We need to wear bras during the day for convenience and to maintain our body shape, but why not let them relax when we sleep?

Increased risk of breast cancer

Wearing a bra when sleeping at night is equivalent to not letting the breasts "breathe" for 24 hours a day. Over time, blood circulation will be impaired, lymph flow will be blocked, and harmful substances will be retained in the breasts, which will gradually lead to the formation of blood stasis, lumps, nodules, and eventually cancer.

Affects neuromodulation

When you sleep with a bra on, the outside of the body cannot flow freely, which is not conducive to regulating the nervous system. If the nervous system is not regulated smoothly, the body's adaptability and immune function will also decrease.

Common problems for women wearing bras

Shoulder straps often slip down

There may be two reasons for this phenomenon. One is that the bra is too small and too loose, which makes it easy for the shoulder straps to slip off after moving up. The second is choosing the wrong shoulder strap style. Everyone's shoulder shape is different, some are broad shoulders, some are narrow shoulders, some are flat shoulders, some are tapered shoulders, etc. Different styles are suitable for different shoulder shapes. For example, people with narrow shoulders should pay special attention to the bra strap design. It should not be too outward. Those with inward-adducting designs should be selected so that they will not slide down easily.

Another common mistake with shoulder straps is making them too narrow or too loose. You should know that most of the lift of the chest is brought by the shoulders, so the wider the shoulder straps and the stronger the tension, the better. Shoulder straps that are too thin are purely decorative and provide very little lifting power. If this continues, your beautiful and firm breasts will become more and more saggy, and this is not an exaggeration.

The breast cup often moves up

This problem is very common, and women are often seen in public places unconsciously pulling their bras down. This is usually because your bra hemline is too loose, or you chose the wrong bra size, with the cups being too shallow and just floating on your breasts like a plate. This way, when you raise your hand, the bra will naturally go up with it.

Indentation on chest

Once you unhook your bra, there is an obvious mark of the underwire on your chest, which means the bra cup is too small. You know, the underwire is like a frame. It is supposed to fit the contour of the chest and provide support. But if it is too small and pressed against the chest, it will cut out the fat that originally belonged to the chest like cutting tofu, and the breasts will become smaller and smaller. You should know that 70% of breasts are fat. When the fat decreases, the breasts will naturally shrink.

There are marks on the back

This is also a very intuitive problem, which usually means that the bottom edge is too tight and needs to be enlarged. Or the bottom edge is too narrow, which can easily lead to marks. Try to switch to bras with wider straps. Firstly, it can increase support and fixation, and secondly, it can disperse and balance fat. If you find yourself with these problems, you should immediately find some truly professional bra shops to re-select and buy. At the very least, you should figure out what size bra is right for you.