Ordinary Pillows Can Kill
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Ordinary Pillows can Kill
If a child or adult having a seizure becomes entrapped in an ordinary pillow which blocks the nose and mouth, death from suffocation can result within minutes. Even if death is avoided, lifelong disability and dependency following oxygen starvation brain damage may result.
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For 17 years, routinely, emergency supplies of Sleep-Safe have been made in response to near-fatal suffocation incidents affecting personal users and care provider organisations. It's probably thought of as “one of those things that won't happen to us”, however, even a non-fatal sleep seizure episode can have adverse health outcomes for the sufferer and will almost certainly have regulatory and legal consequences for care managers and staff.
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Sleep-Safe Anti-Suffocation pillows can help to prevent these outcomes.
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Increasingly, health and social care providers are conducting care assessment audits of their patients and residents to establish precisely who needs protection against the risk of suffocation during sleep seizures. Sleep-Safe anti-suffocation pillows are then provided to all those at risk, as a preventive measure, "before the event".
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I'm a UK pharmacist, and my wife is a Registered Nurse with a specialist qualification whose main responsibilities are health education and the prevention of illness, especially in mothers and children. I developed Sleep-Safe pillows because our son had seizures and we were desperately concerned about his safety while he slept. During the convulsions his breathing became spasmodic and laboured and he would contort terribly. On several occasions we found him forcefully wedged into his pillow, and we feared very much that if he became tightly entrapped during a sleep seizure he would suffer brain injury or even die due to lack of oxygen. We could minimise sheets and blankets, but all standard domestic pillows seemed fundamentally unsafe.
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