Pillows - a hot bed of fungal spores

University of Manchester ^ | 10/14/05

[Serb5150]

Between this and the toenail ads, I think I've lost my appetite for the week.

[WIladyconservative]

Oh that's it . . .All new pillows tomorrow . . . .ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

_{I read somewhere that after a year 1/2 the weight of a pillow is dustmites . . .}

Another ewwwwwwwwwwww

[marmar]

I wash and bleach my favorite pillow....

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I love my Aspergillus fumigatus. They taste good with olive oil.

[airborne]

But they're my fungal spores!

[Fido969]

Gross.

[moonpie57]

That toenail ad IS disgusting isn't it??...lol

[gondramB]

At least the fungus in my pillow is my fungus. No telling whose fungus is in hotel pillows.

[6SJ7]

Now how the heck am I going to get to sleep!?

[sure_fine]

I got fungi growing in my pillows that eat those fungi for breakfast



and I am on good terms with them

[diamond6]

Toenail ad?

[Texas_Jarhead]

re: hotel pillows - so true... man I hope I forget about this article before my next hotel stay

[tet68]

Professor Ashley Woodcock who led the research said: "We know that pillows are inhabited by the house dust mite which eats fungi...

Well at least it wasn't

CHEESE MITES!!!!

The scary thing is, they're there, you just can't see THEM!!!

[SouthernFreebird]

Nasty! I'm heading to the store tonight, my pillows have been around a while.LOL

Surely the pillow cases protect us from inhaling this crap...?

[evad]

I wash and bleach my favorite pillow....

and what happened then??

[alloysteel]

Thanks for that mental picture. Now I am going to have to lay awake all night worrying about this....

With a potential enemy ready to assault me from every direction.

[LibWhacker]

Lol, I think I'm gonna order all new pillows and Froogle up some of those plastic pillow covers the article talks about.

[tet68]

Who in the world would keep the same pillow
for TWENTY YEARS!

[Ditter]

I buy new pillows about once a year but think about hotels and motels. Sometimes it's not convenient to take your own pillow long on a trip, but I'm not going to stop traveling because of filthy pillows.