Hypoallergenic Hotel Rooms For A Price?
Very slowly, but surely hotels are learning to recognize travelers who suffer from allergies brought on mold, dust mites, and smoke. This recognition by hotel operators is good, but hypoallergenic hotel rooms will come at an increased price to travelers.
Posted: December 22, 2007 | Click here for the full story | 7 commentsComments
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We use memory foam mattresses at our Inn, that we bought from http://www.memoryfoamcanada.ca/memory_foam_mattresses
These mattress natural repel dust mites, and are really comfortable, our clients love them!
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You can do it yourself! Get rid of carpet and curtains in the bedroom and where ever else possible. Bedroom is most important. Encase your mattress, pillows and boxspring with a good quality encasement. Launder ALL bedding not just sheets weekly in very hot water, make sure those bedding do not touch upolstery, carpet, fabric that has not been laundered in hot water. Use a dehumidifyer when possible. Dust mites love flacks of skin, warmth and moisture! Vacuum with a hepa filter or water filter vacuum.
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I found a list of hotels that have allergy friendly rooms: http://www.hypoallergenic-hotels.com/
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i bought a non toxic memory foam mattress from www.myessentia.com for my home and when i travel i bring my travel sheet from www.allersac.com
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Even a relatively new mattress can quickly become one of the dirtiest items in your home. It can take as little as six months for a brand new mattress to reach a level of contamination where it would be classed as needing detoxification.
A newly cleaned and sanitized mattress could help to:
•Improve your sleep, leaving you feeling fresh and revitalised in the morning.
•Help reduce the severity and frequency of allergies, asthma, eczema, bronchitis, rhinitis, morning sneezes, itchy eyes, stuffy nose, and more.
•Give your mattress a clean, fresh feeling that it has not had since the day it was bought.
•Help reduce the risk of developing some life-long and chronic diseases, such as asthma and allergies. This is especially important for children and the elderly.
Your mattress doubles in weight every ten years due to dust mite infestation. At this rate, your mattress increases in weight 10% every year. Even newer mattresses have millions of dust mites! Our cleaning will leave you virtually dust mite free for up to 6 months.
Even if you do not have allergies, your mattress can still make you sick because of the level of contamination from dust mites, as well as the bacteria, mold, fungus, and more that may be lurking in your bed. We can not guarentee better health, or the prevention of sickness, but we can guarentee that the likelihood of you getting sick from your mattress will be severely decreased.
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DUST MITES AND YOU
No matter how clean the home, all mattresses are prone to the same problem. When we sleep, we produce up to half a liter of sweat every night & shed about a gram of skin each day and although we wear night clothes, which we wash regularly, together with our bed linen, this is no protection against what happens to the mattress.
Very quickly the mattress will become host to a multitude of horrors, from bacteria to fungal spores and microscopic house dust mites which feed off dead flakes of skin. Is it any wonder that without cleaning a mattress, it could be the dirtiest item in your home? It is estimated that there are up to 2 million house dust mites living in a mattress and in an average pillow, 10% of its weight is made up of dead skin and dust mites.
House dust mites find a mattress the perfect breeding ground. With warmth and moisture and no natural enemies, they will establish in a mattress within several months and it is their droppings which cause most problems. These have been medically proven to trigger a whole host of allergic reactions, from Asthma, Eczema and Bronchitis, to Itchy Eyes and Sneezing.
Even protective bedding sheets have no effect in reducing problems like asthma, when they are the only measure taken.
(source: New England Journal of Medicine).
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Although it’s not the dust mite themselves that cause the problem, it’s the mites excrement. We start by eliminating the source.
We use a three stage process:
First we start off by using our patented high powered vacuum head that generates high frequency (HF) waves. These HF waves pulverize and loosen the dust mites and their excrement along with any other dust, spores and bacteria that may be in your mattress. These are then eliminated and contained in our special HEPA filter, which traps 99.97 percent of everything it collects. With this type of filter entrapment, you can rest assured what comes out of your mattress won’t end up in the air you breathe.
After the thorough vacuuming, we proceed to our UVC Germicidal light. Unlike other units used in the market, our UVC light is a stand alone unit. This allows us to focus more on the sanitizing process and it also produces a stronger, more intensive penetrable light. As the UVC light moves across your mattress, the rays penetrate and kill any dust mites, bacteria, viruses, and spores that may of been left behind. Leaving them incapable of reproducing and causing further damage.
The final step in the process is to spray the surfaces with our Anti-Allergen Sanitizing spray. Our sanitizing spray is an Anti-Allergen solution containing ingredients that are proven effective against household dust mites. Derived from natural rock and extracts from plant seeds, the ingredients work together by instantly neutralizing and rendering harmless protein allergens created by dust mites. The dust mite spray is not a drug or pesticide. It actually de-natures and substantially reduces the anti-body binding capacity of the allergens in dust mite droppings so that they are not recognizable by the body's immune system. Depending on how severe your allergies, if used weekly this will reduce the frequency that your mattress needs to be cleaned. It is safe for people, pets and the environment. Our sanitizing spray can be applied to mattresses, bedding, upholstery and all surfaces that are washable.
