you also have to know and understand that the type of pillow that you get should be specific to the sides in which you sleep. so if you’re a side sleeper you’re going to need a thicker more firm pillow to keep proper head and neck alignment verses a back sleeper or even a stomach sleeper where a lot of stomach sleepers may not even require a pillow to sleep if i’m allergic do i have to give up my down pillow? what i recommend in those cases is that there are now pillows made first of all that are synthetic down so you don’t have to the reason that people get allergic to down pillows is not because of the feathers. it’s because the feathers haven’t been cleaned properly. uh and so there’s a lots of bacteria uh dust mites things like that in there. so synthetic down won’t have any of that so oftentimes and it feels just the same. i often recommend synthetic down pillows. and then what you’d want in that case it’d be like that good fluffy down feeling is to have a higher fill in the pillow. you can have 300 400 500 fill count in a pillow and so what i recommend to people who are side sleepers is to have five or even 600 fill count so it will keep your head up because the distance between your ear and your shoulder is what you’re trying to accommodate for and still give you that fluffy down feeling. you also have to know and understand that the type of pillow that you get should be specific to the sides in which you sleep. so if you’re a side sleeper you’re going to need a thicker more firm pillow to keep proper head and neck alignment verses a back sleeper or even a stomach sleeper where a lot of stomach sleepers may not even require a pillow to sleep if i’m allergic do i have to give up my down pillow? what i recommend in those cases is that there are now pillows made first of all that are synthetic down so you don’t have to the reason that people get allergic to down pillows is not because of the feathers. it’s because the feathers haven’t been cleaned properly. uh and so there’s a lots of bacteria uh dust mites things like that in there. so synthetic down won’t have any of that so oftentimes and it feels just the same. i often recommend synthetic down pillows. and then what you’d want in that case it’d be like that good fluffy down feeling is to have a higher fill in the pillow. you can have 300 400 500 fill count in a pillow and so what i recommend to people who are side sleepers is to have five or even 600 fill count so it will keep your head up because the distance between your ear and your shoulder is what you’re trying to accommodate for and still give you that fluffy down feeling.
what type of pillow should i choose?