Wool Helps to Treat Common Senior Ailments
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eniors have especially been afflicted by bed sores and other ailments due to a more sedentary lifestyle during Covid 19. Wool, the miracle fibre, is being used by many satisfied Soul Comfort customers to treat a suite of painful maladies, owner Anyes de Laat explains and she has testimonials proving customer satisfaction with wool and sheepskin products. Tony Whiteley was recovering from a pinched nerve that caused partial loss of use of his left leg, forcing long periods of sitting. “I was leery of the sheepskin seat pad so I tried an air cushion first. It didn’t work. The sheepskin did,” he attested.His back pain and stiffness was helped too. Anyes says she started making sheep’s wool seat pads after a 92-year-old man came into her shop one day asking for a seating pad as he could not get comfortable in his car seat.” “He came back saying how happy he is as he can now sit painlessly anywhere.” Many people in pain have recently visited Soul Comfort with soreness issues and sitting difficulties. “Seniors haven’t been out doing as much due to Covid; they’re sitting more.” Most items to fight skin sores
are synthetic “and moisture is an issue as we sit and lay on damp materials.” “But wool absorbs moisture — if you keep your skin dry you keep it strong,” she says. Bad bacteria that thrive in moisture, causing coccyx sores, the most difficult sore to heal. “It can be secured with a bit of loose wool or a seating pad.” Coccyx pads, seating pads, plus Soul Comfort’s sheepskin products are “inexpensive and work like a charm.” “Coccyx pads can also be worn in our briefs. Our seating pads are made of our densest medical wool to protect the coccyx sore and create the cushion needed to sit with ease,” she states. And her wool seat ‘donuts’ can be adjusted for just the right size of seat space, says Anyes, dispelling myths about wool’s cooling and heating properties. “Wool is not too hot. It will keep you at 37 degrees Celsius, which is when the body is happiest!” Another happy person is Parkinson’s patient tended by caregiver Lynda Rowland. Her female patient suffered for months with a coccyx sore that refused to heal under treatment by wound-care nurses. “Anyes suggested we take raw wool pieces and insert them in the wound to mesh it together,” said Rowland. Her team diligently kept wool in the wound, with a wool pad on it, “and less than a week later we could see the difference.” “At the end of week two, Vancouver Island Health Authority and the wound-care nurses gave her a clean bill of
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As Covid 19 subsides, Anyes welcomes folks to share their stories and results after using wool-based products from Soul Comfort.
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