Review and Giveaway: Protect-A-Bed

As I’ve mentioned before, I suffer from allergies. And among other things, I am allergic to dust and dust mites. One of the first changes that I had to make after being diagnosed was to get rid of the feather pillow that I’d slept with since I was a child. But it made a huge difference in how I slept at night. Well, now I’ve discovered something that makes even more of a difference – mattress and pillow protectors from Protect-A-Bed.

What they are:

It is estimated that two million dust mites can thrive in an unprotected mattress. Combine that with other allergy triggers such as pet dander and pollen, and your mattress can become a haven for allergens. Protect-A-Bed’s state-of-the-art mattress and pillow protectors offer the ultimate allergy protection. The fitted-sheet style covers place an impenetrable barrier between you and allergens, while remaining breathable and comfortable. The ultra-thin, extra soft and super absorbent mattress and pillow protectors will not detract from the comfort of your bedding, and the products are easy-to-use, machine washable, waterproof and stain resistant.

For chronic allergy sufferers, Protect-A-Bed offers full mattress encasements for mattresses and box springs – a solution for many allergy sufferers to get an uninterrupted good night sleep because they fully encase the mattress.

I was sent a mattress and pillow protector set to try out and see how well they would help my sleep at night.

Here’s my take on them:

We’ve had the mattress protector on our bed for a little while now, and the pillow protector is on the pillow that I sleep against every night – one of two on my side of the bed. I don’t use a feather pillow anymore, but I still have noticed a difference once I began using the Protect-A-Bed pillow protector. My allergies generally manifest as excessive sinus drainage, headaches and sinus infections. And not only have my headaches improved, but I don’t feel nearly as miserable if I happen to miss a day of my allergy medication. And I’m pretty sure that it’s because of the protection from the Protect-A-Bed products, since nothing else in our house has changed.

One of the other benefits is that we didn’t have a mattress pad of any sort on our bed before. And with a little girl who’s mostly potty trained at night (keep the ‘mostly’ in mind!) and likes to climb into our bed every so often, having a waterproof barrier between her and the mattress is definitely a good thing. Unlike mattress pads I’ve used in the past, this one is not noisy or uncomfortable – it simply feels like another layer of sheet beneath you.

The bottom line:

Protect-A-Bed offers a comfortable protection that any allergy sufferer can benefit from. And with products for smaller bed sizes as well, including cribs, they are a great way to protect your children at naptime and night as well.

Where can you find them?:

You can purchase Protect-A-Bed products directly from their website at http://www.protectabed.com, or at Amazon.  They cost in the range from $19.99 for a pillow protector to anywhere from $60 to $100 for a mattress protector or encasement.

Would you like to try them?:

I have the opportunity to offer a mattress and pillow protector set to a lucky reader! The winner can choose between an AllerZip Mattress Protector (for individuals with extreme allergies) a Premium Mattress Protector or, if they prefer, a Crib Mattress Protector. Additionally they will also receive a Premium Pillow Protector. If you would like to try a set of these in your own home, here are the rules:

1. Enter by visiting the Protect-A-Bed site and leaving a comment here to let me know who in your family is the allergy sufferer, or who you would want to win these for. Please don’t just say ‘choose me’, or your entry will be discarded.
2. The contest will run until Monday, February 9th at 11:59 pm EST. The winner will be selected through random drawing, contacted by e-mail, listed on this post and also submitted to PRIZEY.Fetch. US entries only, please.
3. Please leave a valid e-mail address or other way to contact you! If you don’t wish to leave your e-mail address, please make sure that you leave a unique name and check back with PRIZEYWinners to see if you won. If the winner hasn’t responded within 3 days, an alternate winner will be chosen by random drawing.
4. If you’d like extra entries, you can:

• Subscribe to my RSS feed (click on the orange icon in the upper right sidebar) or subscribe via e-mail – leave me a separate comment to let me know.
• Mention this contest on your blog with a link back to this post, and leave a separate comment with the link to your post so I can find it.
• Either Twitter about, ‘Stumble’, ‘Digg’ or ‘Kirtsy’ this post – leave me a separate comment with your username at whichever site(s) you chose (one extra entry per method).

So that’s a total of 7 comments/entries if you do all of the extra entry options.

Good luck! 

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – the random number generator has chosen comment #253 as the winner:

Congratulations to Auriette (no blog) who said, “I have mild allergies, but my husband has serious allergies. I’ve bought him a few pillow covers, but never a mattress protector. I’d love to be able to try this to see if it could make a difference for him.“! I will be e-mailing you shortly to work out the details.