What should I do if my heart hurts due to lack of sleep?

Lack of sleep is a minor problem in life for many people, but it is precisely such minor problems that can easily cause disease. Lack of sleep and your heart are linked. It can also easily cause problems such as heart pain. So, what should you do if you suffer from heart pain due to lack of sleep?

1. Adequate sleep can effectively reduce the risk of heart disease. Nowadays, many women have become night owls, sometimes chatting online until the early morning, or playing games until late at night. This results in insufficient sleep for many women. However, many women do not realize that lack of sleep can be a terrible thing. Studies have found that lack of sleep in women may increase their risk of heart disease.

2. Research on sleep and heart disease has confirmed that sleep is closely related to arrhythmia, sick sinus syndrome, angina attacks, heart failure, and cardiac asthma attacks. 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., commonly known as the dangerous "4:00 a.m." During this period, the body is in the physiological rhythm of dream sleep and "sleep-wake cycle", the excitability of the sympathetic nerves increases, and cardiovascular activity is unstable, which can easily lead to myocardial ischemia and hypoxia, resulting in sudden angina pectoris and myocardial infarction.

3. Patients should pay attention to their sleeping posture. Patients with coronary heart disease should sleep on their right side with their head high and feet low. Keeping your head high and your feet low when sleeping can reduce the amount of blood returning to the heart, lighten the burden on the heart, and help the heart "rest". If the patient's condition is serious and heart failure has occurred, he or she should adopt a semi-recumbent position to alleviate breathing difficulties and avoid lying on the left side or prone. When sleeping in the right side lying position, the heart is not compressed and breathing is unobstructed, which is beneficial to the regulation of circulatory function and reduces the occurrence of angina pectoris.