Untidy beds may keep us healthy

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Untidy beds may keep us healthy House dust mite House dust mites are linked to asthma Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe.

Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.

A Kingston University study discovered the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions found in an unmade bed.

The average bed could be home to up to 1.5 million house dust mites.

The bugs, which are less than a millimetre long, feed on scales of human skin and produce allergens which are easily inhaled during sleep.

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I hate to make my bed. I got spoiled by living in Europe and using a big feather comforter just laid over the mattress with one sheet on top. In the morning, many people opened the windows and put the comforters to sort of hang outside a bit (sun and fresh air) for an hour or so while otherwise tidying up.

Ooo La LAH! Tres Chic!

[CGASMIA68]

I drove (She drove us nuts)my parents back and forth to Fl for 15 years....we had to wait for my mother to make the bed in the motels geshhh

[latina4dubya]

we had to wait for my mother to make the bed in the motels geshhh

haha!