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Ordinary Pillows Can Kill
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. Lifelong disability and dependency following oxygen starvation brain damage may result even if death is avoided.
We routinely make emergency supplies in response to fatal and near-fatal suffocation events, probably because it's thought "it can't happen to us". However, even a “near-miss” near-fatal sleep seizure can be extremely distressing for eveyone involved. Increasingly, Health Care and Social Care units are conducting care assessment audits "before the event" to establish precisely which of the people they care for is in need of protection against the risks of suffocation during sleep seizures.
Sleep-Safe Anti-Suffocation pillows can help to prevent these outcomes.
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, for brief periods he would cease breathing entirely 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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