The influencer’s health took a turn for the worse shortly after buying a new mattress — and she only recently found out why.
Corey Jacob, 26, said Saturday that he has been waking up with various ailments for the past year because his mattress was filled with fiberglass.
Corey Jacob Found on TikTok8.6 million views, his suffering was caused by an $800 mattress he bought from Amazon.
According to Yaqub, for most of the year, he spent an hour every morning throwing up.
Her condition shocked doctors, who initially diagnosed her with heat urticaria, an allergic reaction to hot water, but she stumbled upon a TikTok PSA about a fiberglass bottle and realized the truth.
After shining the light around his room, he realized that the whole place was covered in fiberglass.
“Everything in my bedroom, inside and out, is completely covered in fiberglass,” the 26-year-old said. “I thought my skin was sensitive because I would get a rash…I was cut by fiberglass.”
Eric Rodriguez, CEO of Innerbody Research, said fiberglass should be fine in the mattress as long as the person isn’t directly exposed to it.
“It’s better if the fiberglass stays inside the mattress” Rodriguez told Sleepopolismattress review site, “but if it gets out, it can damage your home and your health.”
Jacobs said the mattress came with a warning about the material, but since it came in a zippered cover, Jacobs thought it was okay to remove the cover to wash it.
“When you unzip it, you don’t even take the cover off, it goes everywhere,” Jacob said. “It spreads like tiny, tiny dust particles.”
Yaqub then addressed his TikTok followers.
Yaqub, who has 355,000 followers, recalls: “I forget that, because of the size of my audience, I can ask for things and sometimes I get them. “So I was like, ‘Well, I might as well try, but I wasn’t expecting it.’
Jacob said he asked for a new mattress and was surprised to find nine new mattresses in the mail.
According to the influencer, she plans to donate the spare mattresses to a shelter in Cape Cod.
Instead of spending thousands of dollars on fees, Jacob said he plans to clean his apartment himself.
“It’s the most grown-up thing I’ve ever done,” Jacob jokes, adding that he had to get rid of 90% of his clothes.
Jacob said he takes responsibility for not reading every label, but wondered why companies continue to use materials that are harmful to humans.
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