Sleeping on your stomach may boost your risk of sudden death if you have epilepsy, new research suggests.
Sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy occurs when an otherwise healthy person dies and “the autopsy shows no clear structural or toxicological cause of death,” said Dr. Daniel Friedman, assistant professor of neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.
This is a rare occurrence, and the study doesn’t establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship between sleeping position and sudden death.
Still, based on the findings, people with epilepsy should not sleep in a prone (chest down) position, said study leader Dr. James Tao, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Chicago.
This is one of the only sleep positions I find comfortable and I always end up back On my front