What’s In Your Pillow?

I hate being sick. I’ve had sore throats for the past few days, ear aches, etc. Ear aches during winter, generally speaking, mean that I am getting a cold. I have problems with fluid build up in my ears anyways, so when I get a cold it gets worse.

Around our house here, we seem to get a lot of colds, flu, and other “I don’t feel well” issues going on. This is probably due in large part to the fact that we’re in close quarters with each other. It could also be due to the fact that when we’re sick, although we change our pillowcases, sheets, etc when we get better, it seems that we still end up getting another round of whatever it was that we had last…cold, flu, whatever.

Then I found out that even after pillowcase changes that germs and fungus can still be living in your pillow. Both mattresses and pillows can end up with their weights doubled just due to dust mites & dust mite feces…. which to me is just nasty. BLEH. But, there are some things you can do – make sure you’re changing your sheets and pillowcases every week at a minimum, and using protective covers on your pillows and mattresses. You can see more information in this video:

Gross huh? I think this is something we need to do around here. It’s something I think we would all benefit from – because I know that a lot of our problem has got to be caused by our pillows and mattresses. We have allergies around here and I think we’d all benefit from allergen pillows and mattress covers for our beds to prevent the problems with our allergies and other illnesses from becoming even bigger issues.

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