Sleep-Safe Anti-Suffocation Pillows have 7 features to help prevent suffocation:
1. Breathability
Sleep-Safe pillows are hand-made from a special soft, highly porous foam with an open cell structure that allows much greater 'breathability' than ordinary pillows.
2. Profiled Surface
The gentle, rippled surface of Sleep-Safe pillows provides a profusion of air spaces between the surface of the pillow and the net cover.
Air can pass more freely over the surface of the pillow even when supporting the weight of a sleeping person's head.
This allows air to pass more freely over the surface of the pillow, even when supporting the weight of a sleeping person’s head and when used on non-porous materials such as incontinence sheets.
3. Cervi-Shaped
Sleep-Safe pillows are subtly shaped to provide gentle support in the cervical spine region. This supports the neck and spine in alignment, helping to maintain uninterrupted breathing.
4. Hypoallergenic
No adhesives or welding chemicals are used in Sleep-Safe pillows, so there is no risk of volatile ‘leftovers’ to cause allergic reactions, asthma attacks or breathing difficulties.
5. Easily Washable
Sleep-Safe pillows can be washed and dried in one piece, because the micromesh cover is permanent and doesn't need to be removed. House dust mites and airborne particles that cause allergic reactions or breathing difficulties can be washed out of the entire pillow in a single washing operation.
6. Aero-Cavity Construction
A flexible air filled cavity within the pillow.
7. Thru-Channelling
Breathable air ducts formed through the pillow
These features mean that Sleep-Safe is a 'Dynamic' pillow with unique advantages - any head movement pumps air from the Aero-Cavity across the Thru-Channelling to pass around the head and help prevent suffocation.
Benefits for Families and Carers
The benefits of Sleep-Safe anti-suffocation pillows extend beyond helping to prevent the death or injury of a person affected by seizures.
Sleep-Safe pillows also provide reassurance to parents, partners and carers by reducing the fear of suffocation of a loved one, fear that can lead to disturbed sleep patterns, anxiety and depression, and a profound deterioration in the quality of life for the entire family. Sometimes, there certainly is a place for electronic alarms and monitors - however, these require carer intervention when activated and are expected to function with 100% certainty for 100% of the time.
Sleep-Safe pillows don't require carer intervention in order to “work properly” - they are designed to help prevent fatal suffocation events during sleep seizures occurring in domestic or care settings where 24-hour continuous monitoring is not entirely practical.
This means that Sleep-Safe pillows also help to reduce greatly the “carer anxiety” of sleep seizures - the fear of suffocation.
This helps to put carers and patients back in control of their lives by relieving a significant cause of family stress and making management of the condition which is causing the seizures - epilepsy, stroke, aftermath of head injury, meningitis, etc - much less demanding.
