These simple tests can help you discover if your mattress is still giving you comfort you need:

•Lie on your back and try to slide your hand under small of your back. If it is very easy and your shoulders and hips are uncomfortable, you may want to consider a new mattress. •Try to roll over. If it is a lot of effort your mattress may be too soft and a new mattress may be a solution for a more comfortable night's sleep, and well rested awakening in morning.

Another sign of a mattress losing its comfort is when it takes longer to feel rested as you start to sleep later and later. Staying a couple of hours longer in bed can extend result a poorly performing mattress that wouldn't otherwise be noticed with a shorter or normal sleep period.

Once you have decided that your mattress is no longer giving you comfort that it should give, search for a new mattress commences. The quality of a mattress is recognizable by following:

Quality Mattress Indicators

Durability Quality materials which are well put together are a sign of durability, but more importantly is warrantees given which are a sign of how long factory believes life expectancy of mattress is. Depending on price level of mattress, warrantees should be for 5 years for promotional priced queen beds ($199 to $599), 10 years for middle of road quality ($699 to $999), 15 years for premium quality ($1,199 to $2,999) and 20 years for true luxury beds ($3,199 to $12,999).

Softness and Firmness The required softness or firmness of a mattress is a personal preference and most people know exactly what they want. They either like a softer or harder mattress. Often weight is a consideration when choosing firmness of a mattress. Large or very heavy adults generally prefer firmer mattresses that provide them with more support. When buying a mattress for a child, remember back problems start as spinal cord develops, saving money now may cost you in long run. Children generally like a softer mattress and promotionally priced twin sets have less support and more pressure points than premium priced products.

Delirium tremens, also known as DTs, is most serious of several syndromes that can occur when someone who is physically dependent on alcohol stops drinking. By serious, I mean that people with this condition can die. Even with hospital treatment death rate can be 1-5%, but without treatment it could be 20%. Even convulsive seizures—another alcohol withdrawal syndrome—are less likely to be lethal than DTs.

Symptoms of DTs typically start 2-4 days after last drink in someone with prior heavy and prolonged consumption of alcohol. Earliest signs of DTs can be three T's—temperature elevation, tremor and tachycardia (rapid heartbeat). The affected individual can experience anxiety, restlessness, nausea, and impaired sleep. By time delirium tremens becomes fully developed, it includes entire battery of "grizzly bear" symptoms mentioned above. These occur because a portion of nervous system responsible for regulating basic bodily processes, sympathetic system, jumps into overdrive.

But DTs involve much, much more. The parts of brain responsible for perception and thought go haywire. Ordinary lights and sounds seem excessively harsh. The afflicted individual becomes confused, agitated, and even psychotic. He or she might even fail to identify family members. There is constant and sometimes incoherent talk. Ordinary components of environment, like patterns on wallpaper, can be perceived as frightful threats, like spiders or snakes.

Moreover, hallucinations can occur. These can include terrifying sights, sounds or smells that others in room can't detect. In addition, there can be distressing sensations as if skin is being touched by insects or other unseen intruders.

At first, person in DTs might have lucid intervals in which he or she makes appropriate conversation, but then becomes more continuously inaccessible to questions. Subsequently, symptoms subside usually in a matter of days and recovery can even be sudden.