The common reasons for feeling breathless while sleeping include inappropriate sleeping position, bronchial asthma, sleep apnea syndrome, heart failure, etc.
1. Improper sleeping position: If the sleeping position is inappropriate, such as often lying down to sleep, it is easy to make the heart and lungs are compressed, which in turn causes discomfort such as breathlessness, usually change the sleeping position after the symptoms will be relieved.
2. Bronchial asthma: If the condition is in acute attack, coupled with increased vagus nerve excitability at night, it is easy to cause bronchial spasm, contraction, so it is easy to feel breathless, and may even be suffocated to wake up.
3. Sleep apnea syndrome: mostly seen in obese people, middle-aged and elderly people, in addition to nasal turbinate hypertrophy, tonsil hypertrophy patients, also prone to this disease. As the airway is blocked during sleep, you may feel breathlessness and apnea.
4. Heart failure: feeling breathless while sleeping may also be related to heart failure, with the increase in the amount of return blood, further aggravating the burden on the heart.
There are many other causes of breathlessness while sleeping, such as pericardial effusion, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung tumors, pleural effusion, etc. It is recommended to consult a doctor in time to check the cause of the disease and follow the doctor’s instructions, so as not to delay the condition.