How do you know if your pillow is still good?

With this trick, you'll know if you need to change your pillow. To find out if you need to change your pillow, fold it in half and release it after two seconds. If it returns to its normal shape, it's still in good condition; if not, it's time to change it.

With this tip, you'll know if you need to change your pillow
Did you know that you should change your pillow every year? Many back and neck pains when we stand up, and even headaches, are due to a bad mattress or an unsuitable pillow. To prevent this from happening to you, and to give you a perfect night's sleep, we're going to give you nine tips on how to make your pillow your sleep's best ally. Because if, in addition to sleeping less than eight hours, you sleep badly...

We put the question to the experts:

-If your pillow is too high, your neck muscles will stretch and your spine will curve upwards, your neck will be stiff and sore when you wake up and you're likely to get a headache.

-If the pillow is too low: your neck muscles will sag and your spine will curve downwards. This leads to neck pain, stiffness and headaches.

-Sleeping without a pillow, especially on the stomach, causes us to sleep all night with our necks turned and, if we're on our backs, our necks arch backwards, which can cause injury to spinal discs and cervical nerve roots.

-The pillow should be changed every 12 months, 18 months at most, which very few people do. An old pillow can contain thousands of skin cells and mites. dust mites which can cause serious problems for asthma, lung and allergy sufferers.

To find out if you need to change your pillow, fold it in half and release it after two seconds. If it returns to its normal shape, it's still in good condition; if not, it's time to change it.

-People who sleep on their sides should bear in mind that the pillow must leave enough distance to keep the neck aligned.

-People who sleep on their backs benefit from a greater range of support over the whole body. But they should avoid pillows that are too low or too high.

-When sleeping on the stomach, the ideal position is to sleep without a pillow or with a very thin pillow, to prevent the head from rising higher than normal and causing neck pain.

-Foam pillows are ideal for allergy sufferers, but their synthetic material retains body heat and causes perspiration unless it is fitted with a blue gel, as is the case with our ergonomic and orthopedic pillows. ergonomic and orthopedic pillows.

Wishing you the best of health.

The Protech Allergies team.