You are Burying Your Face in a Hot Zone for Fungal Spores Every Night: Your Pillow

PillowsIf you are the type of person who checks your ceiling for spiders before falling asleep, or you cringe at the thought of a bug coming anywhere near your body, you may want to brace yourself. There is a “miniature ecosystem” — complete with dust-mite-eating fungi – -living and thriving in the place you’d least expect it: your pillow.

And it doesn’t matter if you just bought your pillow or have had it for 20 years. In a new study published in the journal Allergy, researchers at the University of Manchester sampled 10 pillows that were between 1.5 and 20 years old. ALL of the pillows had fungal spores — more than 1 million per pillow!

Each sample contained four to 16 different species, and the one that was the most common, Aspergillus fumigatus, is also the one that’s most likely to cause disease. Bread and vine molds and fungus usually found in damp showers and walls were also found.

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