Article: Your Pillow Is Likely Infected With Fungus And You Don't Even Know It
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Your Pillow Is Likely Infected With Fungus And You Don't Even Know It
According to researchersyour pillows may be home for millions of fungal spores, .
Aspergillus
The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, which is the species most commonly found in pillows, is also the most likely to cause disease. The resulting syndrome, aspergillosis, has become the leading infectious cause of death in leukemia patients. Fungi can also worsen asthma
A Million Spores Per Pillow.
Both feather and synthetic pillows were examined for a study, and thousand of spores of fungus per gram of used pillow were discovered -- well over a million spores per pillow. The pillows studied were ones that had between 1.5 and 20 years of regular use.
Four to sixteen different species were identified in each sample looked at, w...
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