If you suffer from severe or even very mild allergies to dandruff dust, mold, or dust mite byproducts (as can be determined by a doctor) it is in your very best interest to invest in a supply of Hypoallergenic mattress covers in order to reduce the severity and frequency of your allergic reactions.

Beginning in early childhood, millions of Americans find an ironic joke played on them. Their parents send them off to bed, tucking them in with promises of being rested for the day to come and checking their closets and under their beds for monsters, and instead their own body turns on them, overreacting to something which most people never notice or know anything about. These children, developing immune responses to common antigen (or tiny specific chemical fragments) typically come away with a lifelong allergic response similar to Hay fever. Leaky eyes, itchy skin, and fatigue are all terribly common daily conditions to these individuals.

The culprits are typically dust, much of which naturally comes to settle and be trapped on fibrous surfaces like a bed, mold, which also develops over time due to the natural moisture of human breath and sweat, and the metabolic waste generated by the million upon millions of dust mites in habiting any normal bed and pillow. These typically-harmless, microscopic, insect-like creatures feed on human or other mammalian skin cells and therefore develop large populations on most beds. Their waste can become a trigger for allergies just like the mold or dust.

While expensive “cures” and specialty beds exist, the simplest and most effective solution to any of these allergies is a mattress cover that zips around the mattress completely, separating the current allergens from your body and letting you wash it often to keep more from building up.