If this happens to you, you should immediately be putting on some kind of face covering like an n95 or respirator (or striping off your contaminated clothes and washing your skin with warm soapy water if you came into contact with it, then putting on clean clothes that fully cover you along with a mask and eye cover)! fiberglass is very easily made airborne and very damaging to your lungs, nose, throat, and eyes because they are micro shards of glass.
To begin clean up, you will need air filters (p100) as well as a filtered vacuum, as well as a way to cover/contain your mattress so it doesn't keep spreading. it also will not really come out of clothes or fabric by just being washed, and there's a good chance you will have to throw anything covered in it away. you will want bags to bag up the contaminated materials either way, so they don't keep spreading fiberglass as you run your air filters and vacuum. There are professional services who clean up fiberglass, but those are often very expensive.
more info here on how to deal with a mattress leaking fiberglass
if you are going to try and keep the mattress (NOT recommended but mattresses are expensive as fuck), you will need something thick and durable to completely seal it all the way around, otherwise it will keep leaking fiberglass into your living space, and endanger your health, as well as the health of any pets or housemates.
and if you are mattress shopping- LOOK UP THE BRAND AND FIND OUT IF IT HAS FIBERGLASS BEFORE BUYING. an absolutely insane number of mattresses have it, and you have to specifically dig to find the answer most of the time. if you can't find a definitive answer, assume it's not safe.
if you're wondering why so many mattresses have fiberglass- it's because (at least in the US) mattresses are required to have some level of fire protection, and many mattress sellers (especially cheaper box mattresses) achieve this by just putting a layer of fiberglass in it, since the material is both fire retardant and cheap.
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