Sleeping on the left side of the pressured heart pain may be a physiological phenomenon, may also be angina, myocarditis and other causes.
1. physiological phenomenon: due to the heart in the left side of the body, when the human body lying on the left side of the body is easy to compress the heart, so that the blood discharge is reduced, naturally enter the coronary artery of the blood is reduced and lead to the phenomenon of pain.
2. Pathological phenomena:
(1) angina pectoris: angina pectoris refers to the clinical syndrome caused by insufficient blood supply to the coronary arteries, acute temporary ischemia and hypoxia of the myocardium, and the patient will have heart pain when lying on the left side.
(2) myocarditis: myocarditis refers to acute or chronic inflammatory lesions of the myocardium that are limited or diffuse, and the patient’s heart will ache when he sleeps on the left side of the bed, which may be accompanied by tightness in the chest, shortness of breath and other phenomena.
It is recommended that when the patient sleeps on the left side of the heart pain phenomenon, exclude the normal physiological phenomenon, should go to the hospital, clear causes under the guidance of the doctor for treatment.