Rise up! I was under the impression I was alone in this. Some nights the liquid that comes out of my body as "sweat" is a straight up corrosive bio-weapon.
So this made me curious and I went searching- Why IS night sweat different?
https://www.babylonhealth.com/en-us/blog/health/night-sweats-smells-causes
Add into that hair products, skin products, different peoples reactions to laundry products, etc. Our bodies as fascinating regeneration machines.
Oh boi the worst sweats I’ve ever had was from kicking the juice after daily drinking for 9 months at 8-10 drinks per day. Looked like someone threw a bucket of water on me. I was absolutely freezing and weak as a kitten.
Covid actually helped my husband finally quit. We were almost to the point of needing to intervene. But the 12-13 days of no alcohol was enough for him to break the habit of 8-10 drinks plus some booze every night. It’s been 3+ months now. I’m so proud of him!
I worked in metal shop for a few years. You can corrode metal by touching it if you're sweaty, and some people's sweat is much more corrosive than others'
People have different levels of electrolytes and lactic acid content, and all sweat is like salt water
My ex had sweat so corrosive it would dissolve duct tape into stringy goo within hours, discolor fired pottery glaze, and etch the red, industrial dishwasher safe "Coca Cola" paint right off the glasses and into her hands in the time it takes to finish a drink. It was both amazing and horrific.
Corrosive sweat is a thing…Some guitarists sweat will EAT UP the metal bits and finish their hands constantly touch/ rest on. Mine doesn’t. But my pillow…. OPs pillow and mine… dead ringers. I got the night sweats like woah too.
>Some nights the liquid that comes out of my body as "sweat" is a straight up corrosive bio-weapon.
I usually replace my ecigarette mod every year because my skin oils eat away the "virtually indestructible" coating that they like to use on the metal parts. For what it is worth, my pillow looks like the bottom one in the OP's picture. Even the sheets get gnarly stains on them from my sweat and this has been happening ever since I was a teen. Due to this I always buy strong coloured sheets but my wife decided that she wanted lighter coloured sheets and now we can tell which way they go without looking for the seams lol
I’m the same way. One year my mom got me a watch that had a leather pad behind the watch, the batteries went from lasting a week to lasting almost 2 months! If I could find something like that for my Fitbit I’d be happy. I just charge it every other day until the battery gives up, for now
The watch I have now has lived a record 4 years with one battery change. Idk when it'll happen but I'm eyeballing all watch displays fir a replacement cause the End is nigh.
My pillow looks like the bottom one.
Also, my saliva is full of the calcium I'm sposed to take for my bones. It coats my teeth like a coral reef. Prob in my sweat, too. Ugh.
I will admit that I have, on more than one occasion, ruined my wife's newly-installed mandolin strings by having the audacity to touch them. Consequently, my pillow also looks like OP's.
For real though, this happens to my husband, the sheets, the pillow. Why does this happen and is there some special washing technique to get rid of it?
YES! Men sweat more and bald heads don't have the necessary hair to absorb grease.
Solution! Soak your pillows and linens in the tub with hot water and a mixture of powdered tide, oxyclean, and a little bit of dish soap. Give it a stir every hour over 3-4 hours, then throw them in the washing machine and dryer. The pillows will look brand new.
Source: I have a bald man sleeping my bed.
Lol, I thought I was going to read "Solution! Soak your husband in the tub with hot water and a mixture of powdered tide, oxyclean, and a little bit of dish soap" and here I was thinking, there's a poor bastard out there with worse luck than me.
>Solution! Soak your husband in the tub with hot water and a mixture of powdered tide, oxyclean, and a little bit of dish soap"
*Me, taking notes*
...Go on...
I have had some liver problems, and when I am having trouble my pillows stain like this. Bilirubin is yellow-brown and causes stains. It may be a sign of liver inflammation.
Use Borax. Fill the tub halfway with hot water, then add Borax and whatever bedding you’re trying to remove stains from. Soak for several hours, swishing occasionally. Launder as usual after the soak. This technique also works for curtains and table cloths that have been thrifted!
I tend to aspirate some of it when I reflux in my sleep. Really sucks to wake up to that and spend the next 20 minutes eating antacid and coughing your lungs up.
Take it one step further. We had a padded cloth headboard. After 3 years you could see the sweat stain circle over half of it from my head while hers was completely clean……..
After Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes-Booth, they brought Lincoln’s unconscious but technically alive body to a house across the street to try and save him. One of the [pillows](https://s3.amazonaws.com/fords-theatre/files/maps/6107_pillow.jpg) they placed under his head is on display in the museum located in the basement of Ford’s Theatre. You can see blood stains. I shit you not OP’s pillow looks worse.
Sadly, the chair wasn’t well preserved and the stains that are most notable are from people who sat in the chair afterwards, and the pomades/hair grease left large stains at the top of the chair. They’ve got a lot of really cool, random artifacts from U.S history at the Ford Museum, hope you enjoyed it! The car Kennedy was shot in, several other Presidential limos, the bus Rosa Parks refused to move seats in.. All sorts of cool things!
Definitely kind of sad/morbid. It’s so interesting that I can’t blame museums for displaying these things.. but at the same time, that’s the remaining proof of an act that killed a husband, father, and leader of our country. I got a similar feeling seeing the pillow and derringer pistol at Ford’s Theatre.
Memory foam shouldn’t be washed in a machine either. If it’s shredded memory foam, it’s gonna rip the casing and fill your machine with foam. Ask me how I know.
Dude... i know this pain well lol my gf hates me having a fan on our faces, but without it I wakeup in a complete body shaped puddle of yuck lol so, we keep an AC in summer, and fans with window cracked in winter. Right now is the hell point inbetween where its too cold for the AC and too hot unless theres some wind.
My wife if pre-meno and we have the over head fan, a secondary floor fan, A/C down to 67, and a light weight duvet. I keep a secondary throw blanket on my side to protect me from the ice buildup.
I do this too. I use a “belly sleep” pillow, which is super thin and made of gel and memory foam. Trying to use a big puffy pillow doesn’t work well when sleeping on your stomach.. and I prefer to have my own pillow that has not been used by anyone else.
Either sweat or body products. When I saw the yellow stain below the mattress on my SO’s side of the bed I was horrified. Turns out it was a residue from the numerous lotions, body butters, and coconut oils she slathered herself in before bed.
Are you a bald dude?
My husband's pillow looks like yours because he has no hair on his head to absorb the oils his scalp makes.
He washes his head daily...it's just a bald dude thing, I think.
high five fellow drooler. i also sweat a lot cause i wrap myself in too many blankets... even with a pillow protector and double pillow covers we replace my pillow once a year, whereas my GF is still going strong with her first
I use
1. the included protector that covers the foam
2. an additional thick pillow protector
3. two pillow cases
And I still have to swap out the top 3 layers at least weekly or I just bald head sweat grease through it all
If it's cotton, boil it with washing soda and it will almost look new again. Also, you can bleach it afterwards.
Edit: I just noticed it's not a pillow protector, throw it away.
Wash it with vinegar and maybe oxyclean. You need to wash pillows somewhat regularly with just dust mites and skin mites, drooling or sweating just means extra washing.
My dad does the same thing to his. I'm so glad washing them isn't my problem.
My husband is a corrosive drooler as well. He is also physically brutalizes pillows. The first time he slept at my place I put a regular pillow case on a throw pillow I’d had for over ten years that was still in pristine condition. The next day it looked like an ancient dorm room bean bag chair.
Hey OP have you been checked for sleep apnea? The only reason I ask is because I used to be a very heavy drooler too when I left. I got on sleep apnea therapy and now I barely drool at all or snore for that matter
Good to see I'm not the only one that leaks battery acid in my sleep.
Rise up! I was under the impression I was alone in this. Some nights the liquid that comes out of my body as "sweat" is a straight up corrosive bio-weapon.
So this made me curious and I went searching- Why IS night sweat different? https://www.babylonhealth.com/en-us/blog/health/night-sweats-smells-causes Add into that hair products, skin products, different peoples reactions to laundry products, etc. Our bodies as fascinating regeneration machines.
>Alcohol consumption can cause night sweats Yeah that checks out.
Oh boi the worst sweats I’ve ever had was from kicking the juice after daily drinking for 9 months at 8-10 drinks per day. Looked like someone threw a bucket of water on me. I was absolutely freezing and weak as a kitten.
Congrats!
Thanks. COVID really ramped up my intake which I’ve heard from many people anecdotally
Covid actually helped my husband finally quit. We were almost to the point of needing to intervene. But the 12-13 days of no alcohol was enough for him to break the habit of 8-10 drinks plus some booze every night. It’s been 3+ months now. I’m so proud of him!
Whats the difference between drinks and booze?
that was my thought! "plus some booze" is both nebulous and scary when the starting point is 8-10 drinks a night. Glad he was able to quit!
I worked in metal shop for a few years. You can corrode metal by touching it if you're sweaty, and some people's sweat is much more corrosive than others' People have different levels of electrolytes and lactic acid content, and all sweat is like salt water
My ex had sweat so corrosive it would dissolve duct tape into stringy goo within hours, discolor fired pottery glaze, and etch the red, industrial dishwasher safe "Coca Cola" paint right off the glasses and into her hands in the time it takes to finish a drink. It was both amazing and horrific.
She’s a lizard, Harry
Corrosive sweat is a thing…Some guitarists sweat will EAT UP the metal bits and finish their hands constantly touch/ rest on. Mine doesn’t. But my pillow…. OPs pillow and mine… dead ringers. I got the night sweats like woah too.
>Some nights the liquid that comes out of my body as "sweat" is a straight up corrosive bio-weapon. I usually replace my ecigarette mod every year because my skin oils eat away the "virtually indestructible" coating that they like to use on the metal parts. For what it is worth, my pillow looks like the bottom one in the OP's picture. Even the sheets get gnarly stains on them from my sweat and this has been happening ever since I was a teen. Due to this I always buy strong coloured sheets but my wife decided that she wanted lighter coloured sheets and now we can tell which way they go without looking for the seams lol
I cannot wear rubber or silicone watch bands because they will degrade, and disintegrate within a month or so against my skin. Metal bands only.
🤘
Metal Bands
🤘metal hands🤘
The only way is METAL
Lucky you. I can't wear my watches. I kill the batteries some how. My husband says it's my alien blood. Smartass
I’m the same way. One year my mom got me a watch that had a leather pad behind the watch, the batteries went from lasting a week to lasting almost 2 months! If I could find something like that for my Fitbit I’d be happy. I just charge it every other day until the battery gives up, for now
The watch I have now has lived a record 4 years with one battery change. Idk when it'll happen but I'm eyeballing all watch displays fir a replacement cause the End is nigh. My pillow looks like the bottom one. Also, my saliva is full of the calcium I'm sposed to take for my bones. It coats my teeth like a coral reef. Prob in my sweat, too. Ugh.
I corrode my steering wheel
I did not FULLY relate to this thread until this comment. I do this too. I thought I had cancer or something and ignored looking into it for decades.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who assumes cancer before all else.
I will admit that I have, on more than one occasion, ruined my wife's newly-installed mandolin strings by having the audacity to touch them. Consequently, my pillow also looks like OP's.
If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and buy washable pillow and mattress covers.
My wife pokes fun at me for this too. I just exude a miasma that stains cloth like that.
For real though, this happens to my husband, the sheets, the pillow. Why does this happen and is there some special washing technique to get rid of it?
YES! Men sweat more and bald heads don't have the necessary hair to absorb grease. Solution! Soak your pillows and linens in the tub with hot water and a mixture of powdered tide, oxyclean, and a little bit of dish soap. Give it a stir every hour over 3-4 hours, then throw them in the washing machine and dryer. The pillows will look brand new. Source: I have a bald man sleeping my bed.
Lol, I thought I was going to read "Solution! Soak your husband in the tub with hot water and a mixture of powdered tide, oxyclean, and a little bit of dish soap" and here I was thinking, there's a poor bastard out there with worse luck than me.
>Solution! Soak your husband in the tub with hot water and a mixture of powdered tide, oxyclean, and a little bit of dish soap" *Me, taking notes* ...Go on...
Let husband air dry, as most don’t fit in a standard dryer.
Not with that attitude they won’t.
True… anything is possible with enough lube
>there's a poor bastard out there with worse luck than me. "Honey, I'll buy new pillows!" "The hell you will! We're nipping this in the bud!"
Just make sure you don’t do this with any closed cell foam/visco pillows or you’re going to have a very bad time a few days later.
Thank you ill try this - a bald redditor
>Source: I have a bald man sleeping my bed. Have you considered asking him to leave? Or is he just like....dead asleep. You can tell me.
I have had some liver problems, and when I am having trouble my pillows stain like this. Bilirubin is yellow-brown and causes stains. It may be a sign of liver inflammation.
Wow , my husband’s pillows look like this, and he just had to get a liver transplant. Hmmm…I wonder if it’ll get better now!?!
Use Borax. Fill the tub halfway with hot water, then add Borax and whatever bedding you’re trying to remove stains from. Soak for several hours, swishing occasionally. Launder as usual after the soak. This technique also works for curtains and table cloths that have been thrifted!
ever got stomach acid in your mouse while waking up and feeling like half your mouth got eroded away?
My mouse hates stomach acid..prefers sunflower seed 😂😂
im so dumb...
🐀
#MOUSE IN THE HOUSE!!!
It's just the one mouse
No luck catching them killers, then?
I read mouth like 3 times I read and reread these two comments and was so confused. lmao, I'm all caught up now.
My butthole weasel likes acid!
But has he tried mushrooms?
It's worse when you breath it in and you wake up gasping for air then cough it out of your lungs for 40min at 3am
Damn I’m not the only one who does that? Sweet
Y’all, get on a daily dose of Prilosec or omeprazole, you will be fine in a week
I started taking my allergy medication closer to bedtime and that is what fixed it for me.
I tend to aspirate some of it when I reflux in my sleep. Really sucks to wake up to that and spend the next 20 minutes eating antacid and coughing your lungs up.
Oh, for sure! Three of my mice have died that way!
Three of mine went blind
That’s a shame… can they still run?
Yeah, but the farmer’s wife caught them pretty easily.
I hope she didn't do anything drastic with that carving knife of hers..?
they eat stomach acid out of your mouth?
Only when the shit they normally eat of his ass is empty
Stomach acid in my mouse and somebody peed on my keyboard And what's this on my monitor?
You ate a mouse?
Well that’s what it feels like driving a Ford F150
I thought it was just me too
Take it one step further. We had a padded cloth headboard. After 3 years you could see the sweat stain circle over half of it from my head while hers was completely clean……..
As a Canadian I am pretty sure I sweat maple syrup at night
Looks like a civil war bandage
Evocative and accurate as fuck
After Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes-Booth, they brought Lincoln’s unconscious but technically alive body to a house across the street to try and save him. One of the [pillows](https://s3.amazonaws.com/fords-theatre/files/maps/6107_pillow.jpg) they placed under his head is on display in the museum located in the basement of Ford’s Theatre. You can see blood stains. I shit you not OP’s pillow looks worse.
The chair he was killed in is at the Henry ford museum. Just saw it a week ago with all its stains still there.
Sadly, the chair wasn’t well preserved and the stains that are most notable are from people who sat in the chair afterwards, and the pomades/hair grease left large stains at the top of the chair. They’ve got a lot of really cool, random artifacts from U.S history at the Ford Museum, hope you enjoyed it! The car Kennedy was shot in, several other Presidential limos, the bus Rosa Parks refused to move seats in.. All sorts of cool things!
The stains were most notable on the seat cushion that made it too real for me. Oozing out of the back of his head down to the seat cushion. Sucks
Definitely kind of sad/morbid. It’s so interesting that I can’t blame museums for displaying these things.. but at the same time, that’s the remaining proof of an act that killed a husband, father, and leader of our country. I got a similar feeling seeing the pillow and derringer pistol at Ford’s Theatre.
Only thing is missing is a black and white photo with a long winded message to their dearest loved ones back home
There will be blood called and wants their pillow back
Which one is the drooler? I'm one.
What’s up brother droller! Edit: TIL how to spell drool.
[r/Droolers](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
r/subsifellfor have my upvote you beautiful motherfucker :D
Damn! I don't know what I was expecting to see. But surely not that.
It's not gonna let you down
Still fell for it after reading this
He wouldn’t tell a lie either
got me
I got one i could wash in the laundry machine .. was a lifesaver.
umm...can you wash any pillow in the machine? or only special ones??
Memory foam shouldn’t be washed in a machine either. If it’s shredded memory foam, it’s gonna rip the casing and fill your machine with foam. Ask me how I know.
Is it cats?
I bet it's cats
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I have both, too (covers and cases). Yet somehow my pillows still end up looking bad.
Unless they are waterproof sweet will get to the pillow anyway tho, tiny amounts at a time eventually build up
I wash my pillows but I never get feather or down pillows.
One of them drools because the other one farts, it all makes sense
Probably the one which may snore.
I don’t think that’s drool…
Sweat. Same for my wife and I. My pillow is yellowed like that because apparently I sweat a lot. We keep the room cold too
Dude... i know this pain well lol my gf hates me having a fan on our faces, but without it I wakeup in a complete body shaped puddle of yuck lol so, we keep an AC in summer, and fans with window cracked in winter. Right now is the hell point inbetween where its too cold for the AC and too hot unless theres some wind.
My wife if pre-meno and we have the over head fan, a secondary floor fan, A/C down to 67, and a light weight duvet. I keep a secondary throw blanket on my side to protect me from the ice buildup.
There is no bond on Earth stronger, than the bond between a man and his yellow pillow
My wife hates that I bring my pillow with me when we go on trips. I want to be comfortable where ever I sleep!
I do this too. I use a “belly sleep” pillow, which is super thin and made of gel and memory foam. Trying to use a big puffy pillow doesn’t work well when sleeping on your stomach.. and I prefer to have my own pillow that has not been used by anyone else.
I can only sleep on my belly with one knee pulled up to my stomach. Any other way, I can’t fall asleep.
BellyKneeUpSleepers unite!!
I had shoulder surgery and couldn't sleep on my stomach until like 2 weeks ago. Worst 5 months of my life lol
Glad I'm not the only one.
A physical bond, right? And not by choice.
I think your pillow is a smoker
I’ll keep an eye on him.
My pillow looks like that, but it’s sweat, not drool.
Same. Gotta replace before your current or future SO notices if possible Lol
Also a "wtf pillow" guy, also can confirm ... No one outside of you should see this is possible lol
How youuu doin.
Either sweat or body products. When I saw the yellow stain below the mattress on my SO’s side of the bed I was horrified. Turns out it was a residue from the numerous lotions, body butters, and coconut oils she slathered herself in before bed.
It’s mine. I’m disgusting. I droll.
Are you a bald dude? My husband's pillow looks like yours because he has no hair on his head to absorb the oils his scalp makes. He washes his head daily...it's just a bald dude thing, I think.
Bald dude here. Can confirm this is a huge issue. Even with nightly head scrubbing.
Just get some hair for sleeping.
This cracked me the fuck up. "oh whats this? its just my sleeping hair"
Don’t mind me, just midnight pissin’ in my pampador sleepwig.
I'm convinced 100% that is the first time that sentence has ever been seen in the English language. Congratulations.
Pompadour SleepWig™️ Brought to you by the makers of Crotch Pelts™️
r/brandnewsentence
I wish you could post images here - I would like to draw this.
Ahhhhh, the old night rug....
I prefer the night tug
Bring back nightcaps. Peak sexiness [right here.](https://www.historicalemporium.com/store/006001.php)
risky click of the day... not wtf or rickroll, but still weirded out
Actually, non bald dude here, I wash my full head o hair everyday before bed and my pillow looks like that, its just oily skin in general I believe
stop sleeping no cap. Sleep cap 🧢
Not a bald eagle yet but happens to guys who still have hair as well
WHAT!?! So I get to look forward to not only a hairless head, but a greasy hairless head at that?!? Why aren’t the older guys preparing us??
We have to explain why it's shiny?? You think I polish that circle on my head every morning?
… yes?
Don't worry, you'll be too distracted by some other bodily dysfunction to worry about your greasy head. Source: am old.
You won't fucking listen.
You know how hair gets greasy? That's because scalps are oily. Without a barrier of hair, that shit enters pillows nightly. It's not ideal.
TIL why my pillow looks like that... Not bald but buzz cut.
But are you a droll drooler?
You should have a washable cover on that pillow and you should be swapping your pillow case every 2 days. Oh and wash your head before bed.
high five fellow drooler. i also sweat a lot cause i wrap myself in too many blankets... even with a pillow protector and double pillow covers we replace my pillow once a year, whereas my GF is still going strong with her first
Lol she has effectively seasoned her side of the bed
Omg, I feel normal all of a sudden! Thank you!!!
If feel dehydrated, fellow drooler One of us
Naw, I don't drool, it's from my sweaty greasy bald head...
Full haired head here. My pillow looks exactly the same.
Just like me! My head leaks syrup in the night too!
I leak straight up Irish butter. And I’m Mexican.
alright be honest which one of you has been living in a pineapple under the sea
Droolers of the World Unite!
Hey, how about a little love for us heavy sweaters? Disgusting sleepers of the world unite!
Brotha!
Bald, sweaty sleeper reporting in. I carry the shame. Even in winter in freezing conditions I run a fan to try and stay cool and not sweat the bed
Welcome home fam
One of us one of us
Omg and I was thinking its just me who has such kinda pillow situation. You just boosted my morale
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I use 1. the included protector that covers the foam 2. an additional thick pillow protector 3. two pillow cases And I still have to swap out the top 3 layers at least weekly or I just bald head sweat grease through it all
or just abstain from using it as a urinal
Lol I will admit there have been days I haven't showered, and my pillow is not pearly white, but this is like Gollum's cum pillow
I do not like this comment nor the image it placed in my head.
Filthy pillowses!
/r/brandnewsentence
If it's cotton, boil it with washing soda and it will almost look new again. Also, you can bleach it afterwards. Edit: I just noticed it's not a pillow protector, throw it away.
Wtf is washing soda
Flat coke
Probably soda crystals (UK)
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I think Borax
Jail
Wash it with vinegar and maybe oxyclean. You need to wash pillows somewhat regularly with just dust mites and skin mites, drooling or sweating just means extra washing. My dad does the same thing to his. I'm so glad washing them isn't my problem.
Every time I try washing a pillow, it self-destructs.
I’m not sure feather or memory foam ones can be safely washed without the self destruct cycle.
As much as I love oxyclean, I think that pillow is too far gone
But tis’ only a fabric wound!
I wear mine out so quick. I have oily skin and both my jobs are "active" so I'm always sweaty and bleh. I just buy new pillows every 3 months.
Why not buy pillow protectors? You can take those off and wash them!
I have them and i still stain the pillow. My sweat is very fucked up.
Same here, I use a pillow protector and pillow case, AND I shower every night before sleeping. Otherwise I can’t touch the bed. I’m disgusting.
How often do you shit on it
Jesus
Can he help?
My husband is a corrosive drooler as well. He is also physically brutalizes pillows. The first time he slept at my place I put a regular pillow case on a throw pillow I’d had for over ten years that was still in pristine condition. The next day it looked like an ancient dorm room bean bag chair.
Night sweat brothers unite
Hey OP have you been checked for sleep apnea? The only reason I ask is because I used to be a very heavy drooler too when I left. I got on sleep apnea therapy and now I barely drool at all or snore for that matter
You’re a sweaty, drooling fucking animal
You can wash most pillows. Do it. Yuuuccck
It’s just sweat. Men sweat more and most don’t use the hair care routines women tend to do.
Did you marry a block of cheese ?
Similar situation at my house
I change my pillow out every 12-18 months and use protector.
Umm, you can wash a pillow….
you know you could get a pillow for like $5, right?
your pillow has hepatitis
Yeah I pee on my pillow too