What are the effects of sleeping on your stomach on your body?

When people feel sleepy, they can fall asleep anywhere and in any environment. For example, after lunch, office workers can lie down at their desks to take a nap before work to get rid of fatigue and prepare for the afternoon work. Maybe lying down to take a nap at noon can relieve fatigue, but do you know what effects sleeping lying down has on the body? Let me introduce it below.

First of all, after a person falls asleep, the body's basal metabolism slows down and the body's temperature regulation function also decreases, resulting in a decrease in the body's resistance. All the pores in the body are open. If you don’t keep warm, you will often experience symptoms such as nasal congestion and dizziness after waking up. Secondly, sleeping on your stomach can sometimes cause discomfort in various parts of the body. 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. Moreover, there will often be temporary blurred vision after waking up. This is because sleeping on your stomach puts pressure on the eyeball, causing high intraocular pressure. If this continues for a long time, the eyeball will swell and the eye axis will increase.

In addition, sleeping on your stomach cannot make the body completely relax. Certain muscle groups, sweat glands, and skin of the body will still be in a tense state, resulting in not only not feeling refreshed after sleeping, but on the contrary, you may feel more tired. Therefore, if you feel uncomfortable when sleeping on your stomach, you should pay attention. Many male friends like to sleep on their stomachs. This prone sleeping position not only easily compresses the internal organs and makes breathing difficult, but also has a certain impact on the reproductive system. Especially for young people, the harm is greater. First of all, long-term sleeping on your stomach will compress the scrotum, stimulate the penis, and easily cause frequent nocturnal emissions. Frequent nocturnal emissions can cause dizziness, back pain, fatigue, and lack of concentration. In severe cases, it can also affect normal work and life. Young people are sensitive to penis stimulation, so they should not adopt this sleeping position. In addition, people with frequent nocturnal emissions should also be careful that this sleeping position aggravates the condition.

Guidance:

Generally speaking, the principle is not to compress the internal organs, which is conducive to rest. I recommend that men sleep in a supine or right-side position, which neither compresses the seminal vesicle nor the heart (the left side position will compress the heart), which is best for the body.

Sometimes due to limited conditions and physical fatigue, people can only choose limited items around them as beds, such as desks. We may think that sleeping on our stomach can both relax us and relieve fatigue, but we don’t know what effects sleeping on our stomach has on the body. Let’s take a look at the introduction above.