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I found this mattress at the cleanbedrooms.com. Does anyone have any experience with these? They don't have a showroom where I stay so I am wary of spending a tonne later to be dissatisfied. I am mainly looking for a non-offgassing completely chemical free and firm mattress for my 3 year old kid. Does this mattress fit the bill? Thank you. DM. |
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GuyMakesSense wrote:
I do not have info about the retailer, but the dust mites I can give some info on:
So having said all of that, things that provide natural (not necessarily "green" or organic) resistance to dust mites are things that are a bit higher in acidic content (memory foam and latex are great examples) other things can help prevent colonization by preventing them from burrowing (water proof protective covers, micro fiber, some very tightly wound material (be careful for claims that are unsupported), etc. even some materials like wool can create an unhospitable environment for dust mites thus reducing the speed at which they colonize. Depending on your desired end result (obviously the health of your son) concerning "green" vs. natural vs. hypo-allergenic your search could go a multitude of directions, but if it is strictly in response the the allergic reaction your son may currently have (becoming allergic over time after the first year or two sounds like someone is trying to create a fear tactic), then I hope some of this info will help concerning the dust mites themselves. You and your son sleep well DallasMom! The memory foam info does makes sense to me, as I have observed that when he sleeps on 2 of our beds with thin memory foam layer on them, he sleeps a little better! However they are also firm beds (rock hard), so I don't know if that is the reason. He suffers the most on a medium bed (soft but not a pillow top) that doesn't have the memory foam layer! All 3 beds are from Simmon's beauty rest and Sterns & Foster, so they are in general better quality beds. However they are still conventional and so must be off-gassing, one of them is a 2008 built (sterns& foster) so it might be conforming to the latest flammability standards. Pity I didn't know about these horrible standards back then! Still very very confused. There is no way to know if he will develop allergies to latex, or even to wool. Is there a way I could convert the existing firm beds into non-off-gassing beds? |
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It takes a long time to sensitize someone to latex, and it usually has to do with other chemicals added into it. There are a lot of people that cannot wear latex gloves but can touch natural latex foam and not have any of the skin type reactions that they get from the gloves. The people that actually collect hevea milk for instance almost never get allergic to natural latex even though they touch it in the purest possible form every day. Organic sheeps wool for example is a very safe choice...people have lived with wool for thousands and thousands of years...wool allergies are a fairly new thing in human history...used to be an extremely rare thing to be legitimately allergic to sheeps wool or lanolin. Now with all the chemical treatments done to standard mass produced wool we have a lot more people claiming allergies or sensitivities to wool. Peanut allergies share a similar history...after WWII and the widespread use of pesticides and insecticides came into use it changed the way the agricultural industry works almost completely. Take for instance cotton growing, it is the most heavily sprayed crop in the entire world...the land that normal cotton is grown on after enough time becomes to toxic that you can hardly grow anything in it anymore. But you can grow peanuts, and they just leach most of the chemicals out of the soil. Now we have tons of people that are allergic to peanuts. |