Warning: Women sleeping on their backs can easily damage their uterus and cause infertility

Sleeping on the right side is not only good for health, but also can make women's body more beautiful. On the contrary, if a woman adopts a supine sleeping position, she will not only experience symptoms such as back pain, fatigue, and dizziness, but in severe cases it will also damage the uterus and cause infertility. Therefore, if you want to protect your uterus, you need to start with your sleeping position.

Long-term supine sleeping can easily cause retroverted uterus

The uterus of most women is in an anteverted position, in which the cervix is ​​lower than the uterine body, allowing menstrual blood to flow out smoothly, and also facilitating the entry of sperm and successful pregnancy.

If you sleep on your back for a long time, the uterus will lean back due to its own weight, which may cause the uterus to become retroverted. As a result, the body of the uterus tilts backward and the cervix tilts upward.

Many symptoms are related to the position of the uterus

Among the three positions of the uterus, there are fewer sisters in the median and retroverted uterus. A median uterus generally does not have any special effects, but if the uterus becomes posterior, then there may be effects. Clinically, retroverted uterus is divided into grades. Mild retroverted uterus can return to the anterior position as the body's position changes, but pathological retroverted uterus not only has a large posterior tilt angle, but some even have adhesions with nearby organs, which is a very serious disease. Some require major surgery with instruments to reposition the fracture.

Severe retroverted uterus often has these symptoms, including low back pain, dysmenorrhea, infertility, etc. If the retroverted uterus has not automatically corrected itself 3 months after conception, the displacement of the bladder neck and urethra and the upturned cervix may compress the posterior urethra and cause acute urinary retention.

Sometimes, the obstetrics and gynecology department encounters such patients: "The patient had been treated for diarrhea and constipation in other departments for a long time, but could not be cured. Finally, after a check-up in the gynecology department, it was found that it was caused by retroverted uterus. After treatment, it improved. There are also some acute retroverted uterus, with severe abdominal pain symptoms, which usually occur when standing up suddenly from a squatting position. Some patients cried and screamed when they were admitted to the hospital, and their faces were pale. The pain disappeared immediately after the uterus was repositioned."

Dysmenorrhea and infertility may be caused by retroverted uterus

Why does a retroverted uterus cause dysmenorrhea and difficulty in conceiving? The reason is actually very simple. The uterus is like a teapot, the uterine body is the body of the teapot, and the cervix is ​​like the spout of the teapot. The cervix of the posterior uterus is higher than the uterine cavity which is the body of the teapot, and menstrual blood is difficult to discharge from the "bottom of the teapot". The uterus can only force out menstrual blood by strengthening its contraction and compressing the uterine cavity. Dysmenorrhea is caused by the spasmodic contraction of the uterine muscle. The reason why it is difficult to get pregnant is that the cervix, which is the gate of the uterus, is upturned, making it difficult for sperm to enter, making it difficult to get pregnant.

Sleeping positions are different before and after pregnancy: Usually, you sleep on your left and right sides alternately, but after pregnancy, it is best to sleep on your left side

Sleeping on your back is not the best choice for women, and lying on your stomach is definitely not a good sleeping position, so the only options left are sleeping on your left side or right side. As everyone knows, sleeping on the left side can easily put pressure on the heart, so sleeping on the right side is best. However, for women, there are different requirements for sleeping positions when pregnant and when not pregnant. When you are not pregnant, it is best to sleep on your left and right sides alternately. After you become pregnant, especially after 6 months, it is best to sleep on your left side.

"Sleeping on the left side is beneficial to the development of the fetus." Wang Liuyan said that during pregnancy, the fetus continues to grow and develop in the mother's body, and the uterus gradually increases in size. In the late pregnancy, most of the abdominal cavity is occupied by the uterus. If you lie on your back, the enlarged uterus will press backwards on the abdominal aorta, which will significantly reduce the blood supply to the uterus, affecting the growth and development of the fetus. It can also reduce blood flow to the kidneys and reduce the glomerular filtration rate, which is very bad for the health of pregnant women. After pregnancy, the uterus often rotates to the right to varying degrees. If you often lie on your right side, the uterus will further rotate to the right, thereby pulling the blood vessels that nourish the uterus, affecting the blood supply to the fetus, causing fetal hypoxia, which is not conducive to growth and development. In severe cases, it can cause fetal suffocation or even death.

Sleeping on your back is a bad habit for women, more harmful than smoking for men

When I was in college, my gynecology teacher emphasized that it is a bad habit for women to sleep on their backs! It is worse than men smoking! Why?

The normal position of the uterus in the body is forward tilt and forward flexion, which is conducive to the drainage of menstrual blood and is also the most conducive position for natural delivery of normal pregnant women.

If a young girl sleeps on her back for a long time, her uterus will be compressed by the full bladder in front for a long time during its development (this is even more serious for those who sleep too much at night and like to hold their urine), which can cause or aggravate the tendency of the uterus to be located retroverted, causing adverse changes in the length or elasticity of the ligaments that maintain the normal forward tilt and flexion of the uterus during its development, causing it to be positioned retroverted.

If a multiparous woman sleeps on her back for a long time, the ligaments that have already relaxed due to pregnancy and childbirth will become even more relaxed, increasing the possibility and speed of retroversion of the uterus.

During my years of work, I have found that women have retroverted uterus, and some severe cases have already developed various symptoms. However, when I asked them, I found that most of them did not understand the important relationship between long-term supine sleeping and retroverted uterus.

Once the retroverted and flexed uterus is fixed and formed, it is difficult to recover, which can cause irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, backflow of menstrual blood into the pelvic and abdominal cavity causing endometriosis, infertility or difficulty in pregnancy, easy residual abortion, difficulty in placing an IUD, long-term compression and traction on the pelvic veins leading to pelvic venous congestion syndrome with symptoms of low back and abdominal pain, etc.