Lisa
Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 1
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Posted: Jan Mon 07, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: chemicals in mattresses |
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Thanks for this forum. I've never posted before now, but this information is new to me and I hope it will be helpful to you all.
I recently purchased a mattress and after the third night
of sleeping on it, I woke up with my eyes burning and my arms were going
numb. My pajamas reeked of chemical smell! After airing out the mattress, I tried it again. After three mattresses, I knew it was time to try
something else! I became very dizzy just being in the room with the
mattress!
To make a really long story short, I did a lot of research and found out
about all the chemicals involved in making mattresses! A new mandatory fire retardant for mattresses began in July 2007. My understanding is that Monsanto, Dow, Dupont, Serta, Sealy and several insurance companies pushed to pass this law. (How convenient that the chemical companies will be able to sell more chemicals!)
Mattresses are already full of chemicals such as formaldehyde (a known cause of cancer) and other petroleum based chemicals. I am now wondering how many people are sick because of this and how many people who have existing health issues (like me) are make sicker from absorbing all these chemicals. It is maddening!
If you have time to take a peek, please let me know what you think! This
has been an eye opener (and eye burner)!! I am trying to bring awareness to this, because I don't want anyone else to go through this.
For those of you who do muscle testing, you might consider testing people for what they are sleeping on. It gives all new meaning to "while you were sleeping".
I still need a mattress, but have not found anything yet that is safe. If anyone knows of anything, please let me know! I am allergic to wool (a natural fire retardant), so I am checking in to latex.
Thanks!
Lisa
This short CNN video with Anderson Cooper mentions fire retardant in the chemical burden testing.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2007/10/21/cooper.planet.peril.cnn
http://www.chem-tox.com/guest/guestbook.html Hey, I'm not the only one!
http://www.chem-tox.com
This is a good awareness article from CBN concerning toxic mattresses.
http://www.cbn.com/livingthelife/features/health/mattress_sick.aspx
www.peopleforcleanbeds.org
This website has lots of info. There is also a little video you can watch.
These beds still contain foam, but the website has good info.
http://www.prescriptionbeds.com/people_sick.htm
http://www.prescriptionbeds.com/making_news.htm _________________ Lisa |
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