Lying without air may be caused by physiological factors such as mental tension, or may be caused by pathological factors such as heart disease and respiratory disease.
1. Physiological factors: if there is recent mental tension, anxiety, or overwork, etc., will have an impact on the patient’s cardiovascular, respiratory and other systems, there may be lying on the symptoms of not coming up for air. This situation will usually be gradually relieved after improving the emotional state, and generally will not have a significant impact on the patient.
In addition, when a woman is pregnant, due to the increase in intra-abdominal pressure, she may also have the symptom of not being able to breathe when lying down.
2. Heart diseases: such as coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy, cardiac infarction and other diseases caused by cardiac insufficiency or even heart failure, will have an impact on the normal function of the heart, when the patient is lying down, the amount of return blood increases, the burden on the heart increases, and may appear to be out of breath.
3. Respiratory diseases: such as bronchial asthma, pneumonia, lung cancer and other diseases, will affect the patient’s lung function, or even lead to pulmonary insufficiency, so that the patient has difficulty in breathing, which will also lead to lying down and not coming up for air.
If the patient is lying down for a long time or repeatedly, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to find out the cause of the disease and carry out targeted treatment to avoid delaying the condition.