Has anyone else bought these? I bought one off the net this week and put it on top of my mattress Weds. Weds night was a great sleep but yesterday I noticed a 'smell' in the room which smelt a bit like damp. Went to bed last night and the fumes were overwhelming. I felt a bit dizzy so opened the window and went back to bed but just could not go back to sleep. My cat sleeps at the bottom of the bed and at one point I was so worried that it might be affecting him too and called his name to see if he was concious lol. Luckily he lifted his head up to look at me! It was 4am before I finally dozed but at one point I was ready to go downstairs and sleep on the sofa. I had an awful dream where my beautiful black cat turned white and died.
Today I just looked on the internet and put in "fumes from memory foam toppers" and this came up along with a few others:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Can-Your-Mattress-Kill-You-76887.shtml
So, taking it off my bed right away but what should I do with it??
Love and light
reikiangel
xxx
So, taking it off my bed right away but what should I do with it??
Erm, off the top of my head, how about returning it to the seller and demanding a refund? And/or .....
Trading Standards?
Citizens Advice Bureau?
Local council/recycling centre?
Perhaps other members will come up with some different suggestions 🙂
Holistic
LOL Sorry Holistic, I meant if anyone thought that I should give it time for smell to go etc. I have emailed the supplier and asked for them to collect it and refund my money!
Love and light
reikiangel
xxx
Hi RA,
Glad to hear you just about survived the night and kitty too!! My partner bought a memory mattress off of the internet 2 years ago and yes it did pong when we opened it, but the instructions said to air the mattress for 72 hours before use. We love ours and get a really good nights sleep on it.
Maybe try airing it for a couple more days before you chop it up into yoga blocks (just an idea!!). :)xx
LOL Sorry Holistic, I meant if anyone thought that I should give it time for smell to go etc. I have emailed the supplier and asked for them to collect it and refund my money!
Love and light
reikiangel
xxx
Although I didn't read all the comments below the article to which you'd linked ... which ran for YARDS ... my guess is that you'd be waiting for ever, and best thing is to be well rid of the thing, as you clearly are doing 🙂
I had been considering a neck pillow made of that stuff, but shan't bother now 😉
Holistic
I got my hubby a pillow made with this stuff and it made his headaches worse, I had been thinking of one for my back pain but don't think I will bother reading that will stick with board under the mattress
Spray it with febreze, we did that when we got a new bed with a memory foam mattress, the smell does clear after a while but the febreze will speed up the clearing process 🙂
i had a memory foam pillow for neck pain , it was awful ! felt i was lying on concrete !
rosie 🙂
rosie red that is exactly what my husband thought