Best Weighted Anxiety Blanket to Stay Cool
A Weighted Anxiety Blanket is a must for many with sensory or anxiety issues and this cooling weighted blanket is the best choice to keep you feeling safe while offering cooling benefits.
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What is a weighted anxiety blanket?
Exactly what it sounds like, a heavy blanket, they are purposely made to be heavier and have an average minimum weight of 15lbs. Many are filled with a material such as glass beads or plastic pellets. Weighted blankets make people feel like they're being hugged or swaddled.
Weighted blankets are blankets lined with evenly distributed weight. The weight will vary on what size the user selects for themselves. 
Weighted blankets offer that weighted pressure feels like swaddling or a hug and while the research is not yet comprehensive, preliminary results indicate that the pressure stimulation has been found to help with better sleep, clams adults and children with anxiety, autism and attention difficulties. Now there are some weighted anxiety blankets that also have a cooling effect for people like myself or my teen-aged daughter who don't like to be hot while they're sleeping.
As my teenage daughter has said about her Hush Ice weighted anxiety blanket, it feels like a big hug and yet she stays oh so cool.
About the Hush Ice Weighted Anxiety Blanket
The Hush Iced blanket takes the relaxing and sleep-inducing power of their Classic Hush Blanket to the next level with our cool-to-the-touch bamboo and cotton cover.
They guarantee this will be the coolest fabric in your house, and if you're not feeling the calm after 100 nights, return it for a FULL refund.
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Unlike other brands that sell a "cooling cover" (which is just microfibre in the colour blue), they engineered this blanket to wick away sweat and keep you cool all night long.
My daughter ever since she was a baby always "ran hot", we could not keep the blankets on her no matter what, she always ended up kicking them off because she was too hot. However, when I saw that Hush had the Hush Ice we got her the 15lb one in the Queen size. 15lbs is more than 10% of her weight which is the recommended minimum but you can move up in the weight if you like the heavier feel.
You can learn more about choosing a weighted anxiety blanket size and weight.
I have been thinking about getting one. Thank you for the review.
This is nice. I've not tried one, but I did make a duvet cover that weighs at least 30 lbs, it is pieced and then with the duvet inserted it is really heavy! It is a nice sensation!
My teen has anxiety and I have been wondering about blankets like this. I just might have to give her one, since she tends to snuggle and wrap herself in her current blankets but if she had a weighted one, it just might provide her with a little more reassurance and she will be able to sleep better.
a lot of people in my fibromyalgia group say that this are wonderful but I worried about getting too hot. Thanks for helping find a cooler option
I have heard so much about the benefits of weighted blankets but always thought they would be to warm for me since I am always too hot when I sleep. What a good idea to have the Hush Ice.
We've been using one of these for three years now with our daughter, and they make a world of difference for her (the difference between my husband and I never sleeping, or sleeping all night!) we'll totally have to look into these cooler options for her!
Paige
I am so glad you did this review! I use a weighted blanket for my fibromyalgia, but it is so hot it keeps me awake on these hot summer nights. So glad to find out that there is one that is cool. I will certainly check this out! Thank you.
My 6 year old has anxiety, and one of her teachers recommended a weighted blanket to help calm her. I love that it also keeps you cool, which is much needed here in Florida. I could also use this "hug" blanket, as both my daughters stars school on Monday and I already have anxiety about it.