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Your Pillow Can Cause You Acne, Sore Throat, Neck Pain

Young people throw pillows into the air as they mark International Pillow Fight Day in the Heroes' Square, in central Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 2, 2016. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)
Young people throw pillows into the air as they mark International Pillow Fight Day in the Heroes' Square, in central Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 2, 2016. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)
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Your Pillow Can Cause You Acne, Sore Throat, Neck Pain

Young people throw pillows into the air as they mark International Pillow Fight Day in the Heroes' Square, in central Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 2, 2016. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)
Young people throw pillows into the air as they mark International Pillow Fight Day in the Heroes' Square, in central Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 2, 2016. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)

A sleep expert revealed that pillows should be replaced once a year and washed every three months to avoid health issues, reported The Daily Mail.

If you find yourself struggling to fall asleep at night or wake up feeling groggy, with a sore throat or bad neck, it might be time to replace your pillow.

According to experts, pillows should be replaced every one to two years, or they can sag and fill with dust mites causing a myriad of health issues.

Martin Seeley, CEO and sleep expert at MattressNextDay told FEMAIL: “It's recommended that you change your pillows every one or two years, but it really depends on a number of factors, such as the type of pillow and your sleeping position.”

There is, however, a test you can do to see if it needs to be replaced. Simply fold your pillow in half and squeeze out the air. Let the pillow go and if it unfolds back to its original shape, then it has enough filling to support your back and head.

“If it doesn't spring back, then it lost its support and needs to be replaced,” Martin explained. “Common signs that your pillow needs to be replaced include taking you a while to fall asleep at night as your pillow feels uncomfortable, or that your head and shoulders are no longer supported,” he added.

“Pillows need replacement to ensure you're using something clean, supportive, and free from allergens,” said Barbara Santini, psychologist, sex and relationship adviser at dimepiecela.com.

“It also helps increase their longevity. While I recommend changing your pillow after one or two years, it does not always have to wait that long,” she noted. Different factors determine how often a pillow can be replaced. For example, if you wake up with a sore neck, it could signal that your pillow is not granting the required support.

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119-year-old Brazilian Woman Stakes Claim as World's Oldest Person

Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, 119, sits in her house in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, 119, sits in her house in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
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119-year-old Brazilian Woman Stakes Claim as World's Oldest Person

Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, 119, sits in her house in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, 119, sits in her house in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Two months away from what she says is her 120th birthday, Deolira Gliceria Pedro da Silva, a great-grandmother from the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is rushing to be recognized as the world’s oldest living person by the Guinness World Records.

The institution currently features another Brazilian, Inah Canabarro Lucas, a nun from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul as the oldest living person at 116 years, but Deolira’s family and doctors are confident that she will soon take the religious woman’s title.

“She is still not in the book, but she is the oldest in the world according to the documents we have on her, as I recently discovered,” said Deolira’s granddaughter Doroteia Ferreira da Silva, who is half her age, Reuters reported.

The documents show that Pedro da Silva was born on March 10th 1905 in the rural area of Porciuncula, a small town in the state of Rio. She now lives in a colorfully painted house in Itaperuna, where her two granddaughters Doroteia, 60, and Leida Ferreira da Silva, 64, take care of her.

The grandmother is also supervised by doctors and researchers who are interested in how she outlived the average life expectancy in Brazil, which currently sits at 76.4 years, by more than four decades.

“Mrs. Deolira, in 2025, will be 120 years old. She is in a good general state of health for her condition, she is not taking any medication,” said geriatric doctor Juair de Abreu Pereira, who checks up on Pedro da Silva frequently and is assisting her family in the process with Guinness World Records.

In a statement, Guinness said it couldn't confirm receiving Pedro da Silva's application, because it receives many from people around the world who claim to be the oldest living person.

Major floods in the region almost twenty years ago destroyed most of Deolira’s original documents, her doctor said. That may pose a challenge for the official recognition of her age.

Even if her age is not precise, Pedro da Silva is certainly older than 100 years, according to Mateus Vidigal, a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo who has studied her case as part of a project to understand the super elderly population of Brazil.

“Mrs. Deolira has not been excluded from the study, but there is this fragility which is the lack of documentation that is approved by those organizations,” Vidigal said, referring to vetting institutions such as the Guinness World Records.

Pedro Silva’s healthy diet and sleeping habits are key to her longevity, according to Dr. Pereira. To this day, she has a good interaction with her family and likes eating bananas.

“I wish I could get to her age and be like that,” Ferreira da Silva, her granddaughter, said. “While we have high blood pressure and diabetes, she does not have any of that.”