PILLOW COMFORT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 7 (Supplement)

PILLOW COMFORT

In health one generally has one's own pet arrangement for pillows, but when sickness assails us a real understanding of pillow management is needed to secure the ease and comfort so necessary to our well-being. In the sick room, pillows of every size and variety are valuable, for their uses are liianv and varied —firm hair and wool-stuffed pillows being needed for foundation and support, while the soft feather and down variety provides comfort and ease. Tho ache of rheumatism or neuritis will often yield to the subtle warmth and softness of a well-placed pillow. An aching back may be quickly relieved it a small soft pillow is deftly tucked hi just at the spot. For abdominal pain or colic, great relief is obtained if a firm pillow is placed under fie k »ees. Sprains, too, are robbed of ha f their ache if supported by, or rested on, a small soft pillow. keeping patients upright When an upright or sitting position must be maintained, it can bo achieved without resorting to the professional " bed-rest." A couple of firm pillows should first be placed slantwise across the bolster, and softer pillows added in the usual way to make the desired height. This will bo found most comfortable, and the position easy to maintain, if used in conjunction w'th a knee-pi I low. For this, a firm l" 1 '"™ should be rolled in a sheet, leanng the long ends free to tuck under tho mattress and thus avoid slipping. Pillow comfort will not last indefinitely ... without attention, for pillows get hot and crumpled and lose their effect. Very little troublo is needed, however, to freshen them up and restore them- to their early usefulness, leaving the invalid comfortable, ready to sleep, and blessing her nurso who " understands " pillows. In tho case of heart patients it is of the utmost value to place one pillow lengthwise on each side of the patient and the other pillow across on the top ends of these; The patient thus has an arm-rest on each side..