Are wool duvets the best option for night sweats?

[PissPotPourri]

So, afaik I am not premenopausal but since having my children (hormonal maybe?) have suffered from extreme over heating at night, occasionally resulting in sweats. I can go to bed freezing and within a short time am roasting and can sweat. This is made worse by drinking alcohol, which I do, regularly.
If I think back, some of my overheating coincided with buying a new, “good” duvet from John Lewis. It is lightweight but makes no difference- I still can’t regulate my body temperature.
I’m wondering how much is down to a feather duvet, and if I can stay warm but not overheat with something else.
I’ve read that wool duvets are great for this and am happy to try. Any recommendations? Also, any alternatives, please.

Yes, absolutely, for me anyway, switching to wool (my mattress is wool topped and I have wool pillows) has dramatically improved my sleep and temp regulation is a big part of that. Wool is known to be an excellent thermal regulator (and it's a vastly underused material, which is bonkers).

Yes. I love my Woolroom duvet. Rarely too hot now, but always cosy. I also have wool pillows and a wool mattress protector.

I just sleep under an empty duvet cover!

The wool duvet worked for me except extremes of temperatures...although dh was always too warm so not for all....

Yes, we have a 10 tog equivalent baavet that we’ve swapped for a ‘good’ 7 tog John Lewis one. I am getting sweatier in the summer one as it’s artificial (hypoallergenic ) and doesn’t breathe. Yet, when I go to bed it’s so cold I need a wool blanket on top.

am looking at getting a summer wool one too. I’d honestly been a game changer, DH normally runs hot, me cold and we were about to get separate duvets and the wool has meant we can manage with the same duvet.

Yes. Worked for me I have Baavet duvet and pillows.

Oooh ok, so not just hype.
Devon duvets are expensive but I’d be happy to pay that is they’re better than woolroom, for example.
There’s a 385g one on the bargain bin of Baavet which is the heavier end of medium, I think, and might be too hot. Not sure which weight?
Sliceofcake that’s what we do in the summer instead of our current duvet, but in colder seasons I prefer more weight, and it isn’t enough for Dh

Yes.

Even bigger game changer was swapping to linen shhets and duvet covers.

Noo! I switched to a heavy wool duvet for exactly the same reason as you and it made the night sweats worse 🤦‍♀️

Silk duvet was much better. I got one of those autumn-spring ones that fasten together to make winter. Think was called Jasmine Silk? On Amazon anyway.

I do use wool mattress protectors whichis great.

(By the way after a decade of being told night sweats are ‘probably hormonal’, mine stopped overnight when I was prescribed high dose antibiotics for something else. Turned out my night sweats were caused by a v long running hidden infection 😕)

matchingcollar so maybe it’s worth getting one of those light weight and heavier weight ones that you can combine together for a super warm one in the winter? That’s what we have in our standard, non wool, duvet. Have never needed the combination though as I’m always so hot in the heavier weight one on its own.

Silk duvet and silk duvet cover. Works.

DameCelia so linen covers in addition to wool duvet? Are linen covers different from cotton?
Gosh, Wor! That was an unexpected bonus for you. I guess if I had an infection it would be more consistent sweats?

@PissPotPourri linen is completely different to cotton, and very expensive, and takes a few minutes to get used to because it is rougher feeling. But it is brilliant for keeping you an even temperature and wicking sweat if needed. If I sleep in cotton now it feels slightly slimy and sweaty.

I've got items from Piglet in Bed and Secret Linen Store. Piglet is much better quality but is more expensive.

Now I don’t know whether to try silk or wool. Do I need silk sheets on a silk duvet? To properly benefit?

Mine is a lightweight wool duvet I can use year round, I just add homemade 🧶 blankets on top if it's very cold at night.

Chalk pink have lovely linen, H&M do too but there is warmer than the former.

I guess you could put two together, I gave never liked that as much as having different ones for summer and winter. Especially as DH would get too, better to have different duvets and add in blankets

Thank you DameCelia. I don’t think a rough texture would bother me as that’s what I like about drying sheets on a line instead of in my dryer.
If I sleep well, I’m happy to pay more

I have a lightweight Baavet duvet (and pillow and mattress topper) which us amazing for this time of year. I think we will need a medium for winter. We have an average warm house, I would say.

Best thing I ever did was to have two single duvets on our bed. DH can roast away under 15 togs and I have my light weight wool duvet. I have two wool duvets, 10 tog for winter and 2 tog for summer.
I layer it like you would clothes.
Cotton sheet, then duvet then sometimes a blanket.
The sheet is brilliant if you wake up too hot because you can push back the duvet and wrap the sheet around you. Without the sheet it's a cycle of too hot / too cold.

We have wool duvets for 13 years now. DD sweat a lot as a small child, when talking to the GP about something else she asked if we already swapped from sleeping bag to duvet and she recommended looking into a woolen one.

It sorted DD's issues out immediately so DH and I also swapped. If I am really cold I add a second layer but otherwise I have the same duvet all year round now.

A game changer.

I have a Devon Duvets wool duvet the lightest TOG rating/weight ?4.5 I tried to look on the lake; but couldn't find it and both my DH and I sleep under it all the year round. I had terrible night sweats (due an undiagnosed condition not the menopause as I thought) thankfully now resolved and like to be warm at night and really feel the cold and its great the best investments in bedding I've ever made. I researched to very carefully also looking at linen silk and alpaca I read loads of websites and recommendations I seem to recall the Devon wool one had the best reviews especially for night sweats. And it can go in the washing machine which I have done most cant (I think). I also have a Woolroom one on the guest bed its not remotely in the same league as the Devon Duvets one.

label not lake.

We switched to a down duvet from M&S and a down pillow and the night sweats stopped immediately. We have a 2.5tog in the summer and 4.5tog in winter (warm house) with a blanket over the top if it's really cold.

Thank you Cry.
I think due to this, I might start a completely new thread on reasons for night sweats! Perhaps I should see the gp

I think IKEA do wool duvets much more cheaply than other brands