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Bed
Mattress - to get a good night’s sleep
Choosing a correct bed mattress is an important part in your life.
The average person spends one third of his life in bed. A bad
bed mattress can cause among other problems, back pain or stiffness.
While selecting the bed, the key elements that should be kept
in mind are comfort, support, size and material.
Types of mattresses
In the market, four types of mattresses are available namely,
• Foam
• Spring
• Air
• Water
Generally
people use spring mattresses. Now a days foam mattresses are becoming
popular. Foam mattress takes the shape of your body. Thus without
imparting extra pressure at important points, it provides better
support for your back. Foam mattresses are made up of different
types of layers of foam. Top layer is made up of soft memory foam.
Further down layers are stiffer for support.
Air
mattresses are not much comfortable. Usages of air mattress are
generally temporary like for camping or houseguest. Water mattresses
are unpopular because they are very complicated in design and
difficult in dealing. Spring mattresses are made up of different
layers. Top and bottom layer is made by soft cotton. These tow
layers of cotton are supported by coil springs. To provide support
of coil spring to cotton layer insulation pads are used.
Size
of mattresses
Bed mattresses are available in five sizes,
• King size,
• queen size,
• full (double) size,
• single size,
• crib size
Width
and length vary as per their size. King size is 76” wide
and 80” long. Width of queen size is 60” and length
is 80”. Full size is 54” wide and 75” long.
While single size is 39” wide and 75” long. Width
and length of crib size is 28” and 53” respectively.
Double size is ideal size of bed mattress for adults.
Material
of mattresses
Many mattresses are produced from polyvinyl chloride covered with
cotton or polyester layers. Organic wool, organic cotton, and
pure latex are used to make natural mattresses. Because of fire,
dust and mold resistance organic wool is excellent choice. Natural
latex is a new product in bedding industry. Latex is resistant
to bacteria, dust and mold. Latex covered with wool is fire resident.
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