Mattress Topper Guide

It’s almost obligatory to provide mattresses with pillow tops. Apart from providing comfort to the users pillow top acts as a shield for the main mattress. Before anything goes to damage the mattress, even the normal wear and tear, the pillow tops intervene and safeguard the mattress, thus extending its life.

Mattress toppers come to your rescue when you are not in a position to afford a new mattress for your bed. Just buy a new pillow top and give new looks to your bed. While buying a new pillow top, you need to take care of same points as if buying a new mattress.

Most consumers consider choosing Sealy, Simmons or Serta, all made from visco elastic memory technology that gives improved comfort and offers additional support. Here are summarized reviews of the mattresses available these days, helping you to choose that suits you most.

Serta Mattress Topper

This brand draws good reviews with a high satisfactory rating. Its thickness of four inches is slightly more than what most others have to offer. Some consumers find it to be a bit too heavy, but all the memory foam mattresses are heavy. Others report its size to be slightly shorter for a normal sized mattress, but recommend it for its comfort. It’s reported to be of great help to those looking for relief from backache. It costs just a little more than $180.

Sealy Classic Down Mattress Topper

Users give it a lower satisfactory rating than Seta but it has other plus points. It claims to offer a cradling effect on your body that supports better sleeping posture and alignment. It comprises of health-friendly MicroFiber clusters that provide the needed comfort. It comes with elastic anchor bands that facilitate its attachment to the existing mattress. If you like your mattress to be soft, this is the one for you. It sells for just $130, which is lower than Serta.

Simmons Foam Topper Pad

It earns a rating just below Serta. The users find it helpful for getting relief from backache and acid reflux. That’s because its design keeps your head and upper body raised to a slightly higher level. Consumers say it works very well to provide complete comfort to body. Yet, users complain of slight odor on opening the package but the smell disperses after you leave it in air for sometime. Others had problems finding the right sized sheets, as it did not offer a perfect fit. This comes cheaper than Serta, a little over $140.

Let’s understand what is a GERD mattress topper? GERD is abbreviated form of gastro esophageal reflux disease. It causes frequently repeated and often daily heartburn. It is estimated that every year about 40% people experience heartburn, many of them being GERD.A GERD mattress topper is a foam device, which on being used on your bed helps prevent the symptoms of GERD.

Gerd is caused by the presence of acid in the stomach. When you are standing you don’t feel as much of heartburn as acid remains at the lowest level of stomach, but as you lie down it tends to come up the stomach and aggravates heartburn. So, it’s not difficult to understand why the condition worsens at night when you are in bed, making it easier for the acid to travel up the stomach. That’s when the GERD mattress comes to your rescue.

A GERD mattress topper, generally made of foam, lies on top of your mattress. You need to cover it with bed sheet. Generally, elasticized sheets do not work with GERD mattress topper. You may however, try larger sheets, if available.

There are quite a few varieties of GERD mattress topper available and you may have to try a few before you hit upon the most comfortable one.

Some come lined with contours or ribs. These help to having better grip of your back and won’t let you slip down the device.

Other varieties of GERD mattresses come with a topper that has “memory foam” feature that allows the mattress to adapt to the contours of your back to provide additional support and comfort.

You get GERD mattress toppers with a bed lift that facilitates to custom control the angle of inclination, just like a hospital bed.

At the end of the day, a GERD mattress topper proves to be more committed and custom-built solution rather simply raising the head of the bed with support of a few books or pieces of wood. Such toppers provide relief to sufferers of GERD and acid reflux to reduce their symptoms significantly, enabling not only them, but the partner too, to sleep better.