Here Are a Few Disgusting Facts About Your Bed
I had planned on buying a new mattress anyway, but this information drove me over the edge.
We're currently playing a commercial on the radio that says, "If your mattress is 8, it's time to replace." Meaning, if your mattress is 8 years or older, you need to replace it.
My mattress is 13 years old. It's a King Koil that I bought for $99 each piece. It's lasted a long time. The box spring looks like new because I've never taken the plastic off and the mattress looks just as good, except for a small sag in the middle. You can tell I'm a "middle of the bed" sleeper. Ever since my cat, Miss Kitty, came along and sleeps in my bed, I find myself no longer in the middle (she's kind of a bed hog), but now, I'm being pushed to the side - where there is a hump. It is rather uncomfortable. Comfort, combined with what I read today, made me take the leap to a new mattress.
According to Downright Domestic, here are a few gross facts about your bed?
- You sweat more than a pint a night and if it doesn't evaporate, you bed could become a breeding ground for mildew and mold.
- The average bed is home to six BILLION dust mites and they're eating your dead skin.
- Dust mites, bedbugs and even people can leave traces of fecal matter on sheets and mattresses. This is why you buy a mattress cover and wash your sheets at least weekly.
- Bedbugs can ingest seven times their own weight in blood.
- Sleeping with your pet is not good. My doctor even told me this, but I just can't kick Miss Kitty out. She looks so cute when she's sleeping. Pets can spread zoonoses, which are pathogens that go from animals to humans.
- Staying in a hotel? Strip that bedspread! Hotel blankets and bedspreads aren't cleaned that often and since they're usually patterned, stains are easily camouflaged. I do NOT want to know what the people in the room before me were doing on top of the bed.
- Metal bedsprings act like many random magnets, therefore becoming a source of radiation from static magnetic fields and potentially causing health problems.
- Pillows absorb germs from our skin and air. Replace your pillow every 2 years and invest in pillow protectors.
Let's face it, there are like 30 mattress stores in Sioux Falls, choose one and get the family new mattresses!