Once again the Pillow Forum

By William H Harriss. 10/25/2023. [email protected]

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Black mold or Stachybotrys chartarum is greenish black in color. It is one of the most toxic molds that has been found in hotels and it produces toxins called mycotoxins, which can cause health problems in humans. Mycotoxicosis — mold poisoning. Can cause the following.

body aches and pains

changes in mood

headaches

memory loss

nosebleeds

Mold exposure can also cause other symptoms. According to the National Institute of Environmental Health, it can cause the following types of health problems:

Allergy and irritation, people with allergies may be more sensitive to mold than others. If they encounter mold, they can experience symptoms such as:

a runny or blocked nose

watery, red eyes

a dry cough

skin rashes

a sore throat

sinusitis

wheezing

In rare cases, mold allergies may cause more severe reactions, including hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Symptoms of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis include:

shortness of breath

tiredness

coughing (lasting for weeks or months)

progressive weight loss

Mold exposure can also worsen asthma or lung problems in people with preexisting lung conditions.

Infants and young children with exposure to mold have an increased risk of developing asthma by the age of seven.

Black mold is a type of fungus that can grow on and in damp, fiber-rich materials in hotel rooms. It can start growing within one to two days and colonize and spread within three to 12 days. Black mold may not be visible until after 18 days, but it is still there and ultra dangerous. It can grow at a rapid rate of one square inch per day. Black mold if left untreated can completely contaminate a pillow within a week.

There is currently a real danger to health from mold in hotel pillows. People shower and put a wet or semi wet head on the pillow. Tiny droplets of water mix with the warm air inside pillows, and as it cools down, it causes general condensation to develop. The water sitting in the pillow will lead to black mold and mildew starting to grow unseen inside the pillow filling.

Therefore, pillows require frequent sterilizing to ensure the destruction of the mold cycle. The problem is pillows start to fall apart and are destroyed at high water temperatures. They should only be washed in lukewarm water and a gentle cycle for throw pillow covers. Using warmer water temperatures and a delicate cycle for the inner pillows. Then dried on low or medium heat on a low tumble setting. But at these wash and dry procedures and temperatures mold in pillows are further encouraged to grow, they are not destructed.

There are real health risks from black mold in pillows as it grows and multiplies within the pillows. Being right where the head lays ensures that the spore of the black mold is breathed in by the hotel guest.

But how can that be tackled? You cannot wash pillows because to kill the mold and spore the pillows would have to be washed at steam water temperatures for 20 minutes.

Water starts to become steam when it reaches a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius or 212f. At this temperature, the water molecules have enough energy to break apart and escape from the surface of the water.

Then the pillows would have to dry at high temperatures to ensure there is no damp left within the pillow to restart the cycle of mold growth. To ensure this dryness, temperatures should be not less than 100c or 212f.

But there lays yet another problem. To avoid destruction of the pillow, most pillows cannot be dried at temperatures above 43-49c or110-120 degrees F, which is the standard setting on most dryers. At these temperatures the mold will be further encouraged.

Top temperatures to dry down and feather pillows should not exceed 38c or 100 degrees F. In which the mold will remain, perhaps even enhanced and assisted.

Memory foam should never be dried at temperatures above 32c or 90 degrees F.

You cannot use chemicals on pillows either, not in the wash water or in any other application. Because chemicals always leave residues, that can kill some people with allergies to those chemicals.

So how about dry-cleaning pillows. That is also certainly a No! No!

Hazardous chemicals used in dry cleaning include: Perchloroethylene (PERC), a potential human carcinogen and the most used dry-cleaning solvent. Carbon tetrachloride, a toxic and carcinogenic solvent that was historically used in dry cleaning. Toxic chemical that can off-gas from pillows. This means we inhale it as we sleep. It can also be absorbed through our skin and can cause Skin and eye irritation Damage to the nervous system and kidneys Respiratory irritation.

So, what is the answer to ridding the pillows of mold and its spores? What is the only safe 99.99% sure way of doing that?

The answer is with ozone technology. The Blue Lightning bedding chamber will eradicate mold in pillows. The chambers produce ozone gas from the oxygen in the room [02] and converts it to ozone [03]. They do this without using any chemicals and without using water or heat. The oxygen is converted into ozone and within minutes it reverts without further treatment back into oxygen, thus leaving no chemical residue whatsoever. Despite using no chemicals, the oxidation action of ozone is 3000 times more powerful than bleach, without the bleaching effect.

The chambers have a thirty-minute cycle and can treat 20 king sized pillows or 40 standard pillows in thirty minutes. So, 300 king size pillows a day or 600 standard pillows a day can be achieved.

There is also a bonus that is so great that it can only be described as miraculous. The ozone chamber destroys all pathogens known to man, bacteria, viruses including covid, in other words it destroys all germs, even dust bugs and bed bugs and their lave, and black mold and its spore.

The machine is a handsome stainless-steel chamber that only uses 400 watts, less electricity than a hairdryer. The chemical industry hates it because the process uses no chemicals. The user loves it for the same reason.

If you want further information, ask me, I am known as ‘the ozone no-all.’

Please pass this information on to others in your organization.