Protect Your Children When they Sleep Out

Kids are back at school, meeting new friends, and being exposed to new illnesses. Swine flu, seasonal flu and common colds are some of the viruses your kids will be exposed to. Then there are the air borne allergens like pollen or dust mites and the food allergies like peanut butter.

One of the activities that are part of a normal childhood is the sleep over, where your child learns independence and separation skills. Family vacations and staying in hotel rooms is another way your kids get to sleep somewhere other than their own bed.

How clean is that hotel bed your child will sleep in? Does the household where your child is sleeping over have bedbugs? These are some of the questions you need to ask yourself. For parents of allergic children, these questions, and more, are nothing new, for most other parents, these types of questions are not the first things on their minds.

Think again. Swine flu, seasonal flu, and cold viruses are contagions. Passed from person to person through contact, these viruses can live for varying amounts of time on many surfaces. Bedbugs, are becoming epidemic in many cities and hotels. Scabies, a parasite not often talked about in the media, is diagnosed one million times in the United States alone. Lice, a parasite that loves clean heads, makes the rounds of schools every year at this time.

Allergens like cat dander and dust mite by-products, pollen and molds, can affect some kids, especially if they are sleeping on a floor or a hotel bed that hasn't been properly cleaned.

One product addresses all of these dangers, a travel sheet. Also called a sleep sack or sleeping bag liner, these convenient inventions help to protect the user from a myriad of ills as well as just plain dirty sheets.

Travel sheets are made of many materials, from polyester to cotton to silk. With a very varied range of sizes, materials and pricing, choosing which is best for your needs can be difficult. Select a travel sheet which can be washed in hot water and thrown in your dryer on high heat, why, because anything you’re protecting against can latch on and travel back to your home. Washing in hot water and drying in hot air is the only safe and effective way to kill, remove and inactivate pests and allergens.

Sending a travel sheet along with your child can be a courteous way of assisting the parents hosting the sleepover.

A travel sheet, along with hand washing and education, will help to keep your children healthy while sleeping in a bed other than their own.

Anti Allergen-Pest Travel Sheet
100% cotton 400 thread count travel sheet to protect again allergens and pests st allergens, bedbugs,dust mites, lice,scabies and unclean bedding.