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Ordinary Pillows Can Kill
 Ordinary Pillows can Kill
Shortly after I qualified as a pharmacist, and my wife as a health visitor - a registered nurse with an additional qualification whose main areas of responsibility are health education and the preventative care of families, including mothers and children - I developed Sleep-Safe pillows because our son's seizures were making us desperately concerned about his safety while he slept. Several times we found him contorted into his pillow and very much feared him becoming entrapped during a sleep seizure and suffering brain damage or even dying due to lack of oxygen. We could minimise sheets and blankets, but all standard domestic pillows seemed basically unsafe.
Death from suffocation can result within minutes when a child or adult suffering a seizure becomes entrapped in an ordinary pillow which blocks the nose and mouth. Even if saved from death, oxygen starvation brain injury may result in lifelong disability and dependency.
For 19 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.
Sleep-Safe Anti-Suffocation pillows can help to prevent these outcomes.
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'.