Your Bedding can cause you major diseases. It’s a
breeding ground for germs. Replace them, now!
From the ongoing draining day, the bedroom is
kind of room where you can relax your body in your own comfort. The bedroom where
you start your day and end it too, and spend nearly a third of your life. But, your
own lovable bedding can suffer you from the major diseases that you could not
afford. There also a time to replace your bedding stuffs like Pillows &
Cushions, Mattress Protectors, Bed sheets and Duvets Covers & Comforters. These
kinds of stuff we use every day in our life and it’s necessary to change at a feasible
time.
In this article, we highlighted the reasons
why you should have to change your bedding accessories at suitable time-period,
in order to keep you snoozing soundly.
Why it is so important to change bedding accessories?
According to a survey of over 2,000 people
revealed that more than half of us sleep in a dirty environment as result in
every breath we inhaled the countless germs. Additionally, every night as we
sleep, our bodies shed millions of skin cells, sweat, secrete fluids and oils that
deposited bacteria, harmful germs in our sheets, comforters and pillows or
cushions, which can cause serious health complications.
Fox study said, there are millions of
billions microscopic creatures such as dust mites are transferred on our bed every
day. While unsavoury in themselves, these deposits mostly pose a problem as
they are all deliciously appealing for dust mites, are laden with allergens. They
added, “When inhaled, these allergens can provoke asthma and rhinitis and may
also worsen eczema”.
The research also exposed Britain’s
cleanest regions, with the Scottish and those from the North West found to be
the best. By comparison, people in the South East were the worst.
The Situation is even more critical when
you’re going to have an infant or kids in your house. Inhale these substances
can affect the mother and the developing fetus.
Now,
the question is, when to replace bedding accessories? Let’s take a look below
at most used bedding items and to know the signs that caution you.
Sheets
& Bedding
Having a good bedroom when it comes to
changing your sheets and this is the reason of Sheets
& Bedding achieve top of our list.
As I mentioned above over 2,000 people
found that more than half of us sleep in a dirty environment, the same research
also predicts that more than half do not clean their sheets weekly, with 12
percent changing their sheets once a month and 1 percent admitting to never-changing
them at all. Data are quite alarming and enough to understand the need for changing
sheets.
Signs
to know: Bed sheets are not only to sleep at night,
but also for having snacks while watching Netflix, for used to get done the
work and for what not. After use of multiple purposes, the sheets are fraying
hems and color fading are signs for replacement. Along with, the sweat and oil strains
are also the cause of inviting allergy dust mites, germs, and bacteria at
night.
Take
an action: To prevent from microbes, you have to
wash the bed sheets at least every 4 or 5 days a week to keep clean and
healthy. Additionally, you can also buy more bed sheets for which you can change
a clean one in every 3-4 days.
Pillows
& Cushions
Pillows are the essential part of sleeping,
it supports your head and neck throughout the night. Although pillows and
cushions might not seem important as a mattress, it actually plays a major role
to maintain the proper spinal alignment. However, like bed sheets, pillows and
cushions also have time to replace.
Signs
to know: With the overnight use of pillows
& cushions that absorbs the oil and dead skin cells and cause to losing
the firmness and the ability to support your head and neck, and smell like
worse, can invite numerous microscopic dust mite allergy that triggers your
asthma.
Take
an action: Talk about the right time to change a
pillow, it might not be any relevant time and the answer is for debate. But,
yes, after you experience the neck pains and aches and noticed that your pillow
and cushions are no longer to maintain their shape and plumpness than you
should have to replace your old and stinking pillow into a new one. Note that
you cannot wash a foam pillow.
Mattress
There are over eight hours of sleep that we
take every day on our bed and if you’re wondering you don’t need to change your
mattress then I am sorry, you could be wrong. According to National Sleep
Foundation, a mattress has a lifespan of 8 years, depending on the quality, and
data are more critical when you have an old mattress in your house. Research
proves, with the over & over years of usage the mattress get started to make
lumps or lose their ability to support your body posture over the nights that debited
things like back pain, shoulders pain and trapped nerves as well as the more
older your mattress the more dust mites and allergens accounted and called as “hot
beds of bacteria”.
Signs
to know: If every morning you woke up with pain in
your back, lower back, shoulders, etc., then it may be the signs to replace the
mattress, says the National Sleep Foundation. Shagginess, wear & tear, noisy
springs and muscle stiffness are the signs to know that you have to invest some
bucks.
Take
an action: Take charge to inspect your mattress
lumps and if you found lumps having more than 1.5 inches deep then you have to
think for a replacement. Also, rotate your mattress in every 3 to 6 months to
equally distribute the weight of your body. Avoid making such of crazy jumps
that unintentionally the cause of stress on the coils to lose their ability to
lift up your body in equal proportion.
Mattress Protectors
Mattress Protectors play a major role to
prevent your mattress from unwanted strains and liquids, it’s also very helpful
to protect your mattress from allergens and dust mites. In fact, a study on
mattress shows that you can able to expand your mattress lifespan by as long as
5 to 10 years with the using of mattress protectors.
Signs
to know: Any holes or strains on your mattress
protector is an obvious sign to replace and buy a new one.
Take
an action: As mattress protectors are important to use
on the upper layer of your mattress as it also necessary to change it. If
you’re going to buy a new mattress protector then keep in mind that your new
protector should be easily washable and yes, noise free. It shouldn’t make the noise
on every toss of your body.
From the
Editor’s Desk…
To protect your child or loved ones from
the allergens, it’s important to keep an eye on bedding
stuff; maintain proper cleanliness, and open your windows regularly for
inviting natural lights and for better ventilation which can help to reduce the
moisture and dust mites.
The National Sleep of Foundation also
highlighted the use of lights in your bedroom, even for all the rooms; use
low-watt bulbs (around 60) that filter out sleep-disrupting blue lights for a
better night’s sleep.
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