As an allergy sufferer, you're not alone. According to WebMD, one in five Americans suffer from allergy or asthma symptoms, with over half testing positive for multiple allergies.
This extends to your children and their friends as well. There's a 70 percent chance that a child whose parents suffer from allergies will develop symptoms themselves. When you host a sleepover at your house, it's very likely that you may also be hosting a lot of little allergy sufferers. To make sure that your child's sleepover doesn't become a sneeze-over, invest in additional allergy bedding for your guests.
Common symptoms like sneezing, coughing, runny nose, post nasal drip and itching can range in severity from annoying to crippling. Allergy and asthma symptoms can be unbearable for children as well as adults. In the same way you'd do everything you can to spare your child's discomfort, their friends' parents also would appreciate your efforts to protect their child.
During a sleepover, increased activity like pillow fights, jumping on the bedding and just running around on the carpet can release dust mites and particles into the air. if you protect your child's room with a hypoallergenic mattress cover and hypoallergenic pillow cases and sheets, you basically eliminate that threat.
Offering allergy bedding to your little guests is another effective anti-allergen measure. Their own sheets and pillows brought from home could be carrying allergens and irritants that may not affect them but will trigger symptoms for others in the group. An allergen air filter installed in the central AC can take these allergens out of the air circulating in the house so all the little ones can sleep free from allergy symptoms.
Allergy Be Gone offers these and many more allergy solutions. Check out our website and keep your house and your kids' sleepovers allergy-free.
