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Reader's Digest India
|November 2016
Art of Living.
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I Never Make My Bed So I Can ...
Thwart Dust Mites
Did you know that your bed is probably home to 1.5 million hungry dust mites feeding off your dead skin cells and swimming in the moisture left over on your sweat-soaked sheets? Or that, if inhaled, the allergens they produce (which is actually their poop … mm-mmm!) can cause asthma and allergies? Sleep tight! Thankfully, it’s easy to stop the little buggers: Don’t make your bed. Sheets and blankets tucked in with their hospital corners, just so, lock in the moisture that mites need to survive. As with Dracula, exposure to sunlight kills them. Stephen Pretlove, PhD, of Kingston University’s School of Architecture, told the BBC, “Leaving a bed unmade during the day can remove moisture from the sheets and mattress, so the mites will dehydrate and eventually die.”
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This story is from the November 2016 edition of Reader's Digest India.
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