Originally Posted By: rwand1 This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Fyi.
Scientists at Manchester University recently completed a study on fungal growth in different types of bedpillows. It seems ?natural? feather pillows will host fewer fungal spores over time compared with synthetic materials. This is a copy of the Press release at
Originally Posted By: lkage This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
?the team studied samples from ten pillows with
between 1.5 and 20 years of regular use.
?We know that pillows are inhabited by the house dust mite which eats fungi, and one theory is that the fungi are in turn using the house dust mites? faeces as a major source of nitrogen and nutrition (along with human skin scales). There could therefore be a ?miniature ecosystem? at work inside our pillows.?
Originally Posted By: mcyr This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Raymond;
My wife must have heard about this in her past life, because she buys new pillows every year. I always wondered why she did that when finally I would just be breaking in the new pillows.
