The most common cause is, oddly enough, the wrong size of your pillow. When resting on a large pillow, blood circulation is disturbed due to a strong arching of the cervical spine. The solution to the problem is simple - use low pillows, and even better - orthopedic pillows that take the shape of your body.
Uncomfortable posture during sleep is also the answer to the question of why the hands go numb at night. Breastfeeding women, for their own convenience, sleep with their head resting on their outstretched arm. As soon as you change position, you will immediately feel the difference. Hands raised up impede blood circulation. This is the reason why the hand goes numb at night.
If you are used to sleeping in pajamas, do not buy them in a small size. It should not restrict your movements and squeeze your body at night. When you go to bed, take off your jewelry, be it a ring or a bracelet.
If the cause of hand numbness is poor circulation, physiotherapy, manual therapy is recommended to improve blood circulation in the body.
Exercises to quickly get rid of discomfort:
1. Stretch your arms up, hold them andclench your fists 50 times.
2. Clench your hands into fists on a horizontal surface.
3. Do wrist rotations one way, then the other.
Numbness of the hands as a symptom of some disease
The inconvenience associated with the fact that the hand goes numb at night, may be due to the development of diseases:
- A chronic form of circulatory disorders, which is a symptom of diseases such as hypertension, ischemia, anemia, diseases of the endocrine system. Cardiac diseases are characterized by weak blood pushing, vessels lose their elasticity.
- Neurological pathologies contribute to the fact that hands go numb at night.
- Causes may also be hidden in hypovitaminosis - a lack of B vitamins.
- Polyneuropathic manifestations are also characterized by numbness of the extremities.
- The presence of carpal tunnel causes a feeling of pain and numbness due to squeezing of muscle tissue.
- Osteochondrosis manifestations in the cervical spine, the symptoms of which are pain in the neck, provoke that the hand goes numb at night.
Your actions for numb hands
Never ignore this issue. Symptoms, in which there is a feeling that the hand goes numb at night, can warn of the presence of serious diseases. Therefore, after making sure that household factors (pillow size, pajamas) have nothing to do with it, seek the advice of a specialist who will prescribe you the necessary examination by a hematologist,cardiologist, neurologist.
Prevention measures
So that you are not disturbed by such an unpleasant phenomenon as numbness of the hands, get rid of bad habits - smoking, excessive drinking; reconsider your daily diet - eat fatty foods as little as possible, because with an increased content of cholesterol in the blood, there is a high risk of blockage of blood vessels. Move more, especially if you are sedentary.
