High blood pressure patients sleep on how high the pillow

Patients with hypertension sleep on a pillow about the same height as a normal person’s pillow, about 10-15cm. Pillow too high for the patient’s cervical spine physiological curvature is affected, long-term pillow high pillow can lead to cervical spondylosis. And cervical spondylosis occurs when there will be dizziness, a transient increase in blood pressure, so hypertensive patients are not suitable for pillow too high pillow. But there is a situation, when the patient long-term hypertension, poor blood pressure control and caused by hypertensive heart disease, cardiac insufficiency, heart failure, this time we completely flat lying will appear respiratory distress aggravated. At this time we can choose a slightly higher pillow, temporary relief of dyspnea, but do not favor the long-term application of high pillow.