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Best anti-allergy bedding: Sheets for your best night’s sleep yet

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Allergies are one of the great banes of human existence.

The strangest, most frustrating built-in weakness, seasonal and lifetime sufferers from the auto-immune response do not take matters lightly when it comes to allergic reactions, especially when if they're life-threatening.

Yet we underestimate just how debilitating some allergies can be. This is especially the case when it comes to contact and airborne allergens, and how they affect our sleep habits.

Our bodies create and repair cells when we’re hurt, we can fight off infections by producing battle-ready proteins and antibodies and females can grow babies inside of them - but feathers, dust and pollen? It’s all snotty tissues and horrendous sinus pain.

According to Allergy UK, over 60 per cent of the UK population (some 41m people), suffer from a form of allergy. Likewise, a recent study commissioned by bedding retailer Woolroom uncovered that

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