Untidy beds may keep us healthy

BBC News ^ | 1/24/10 | left that other ste

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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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And I like to make my bed so you can bounce a dime off it! Oh well...

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Eyew.

[CaptainK]

This may explain why nobody in my house has asthma

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Military-Style Bed Making?

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Oh...NOBODY has asthma!

So nobody makes their bed? hahaha

[fatnotlazy]

Well, I disprove that theory. I don’t make my bed and I have health problems. (SNORT)

[latina4dubya]

my friend’s mother used to tell her, “prostitutes have unmade beds,” whenever my friend hadn’t yet made her bed...

[Vor Lady]

Maybe you were right all along ping.

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They are always coming up with cockamamie theories! LOL

[CGASMIA68]

how’d she know that?

[i_dont_chat]

I have a theory that if I keep a messy bedroom, aliens won’t abduct me.

[Dallas59]

What about couches? I sleep more on the couch than my bed.

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“prostitutes have unmade beds,”

Dust mites would be the LEAST of her(a prostitute's) health problems! LOL

[tflabo]

I’ve not taken off the original plastic that covers both the box spring and mattress of my set. Does that keep dust mites off the mattress?

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You are wrong. Aliens, especially the ILLEGAL ONES, are KNOWN for their messy bedrooms! :-)

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What about couches? I sleep more on the couch than my bed

Couches are probably worse because they don't have sheets in between YOU and the cushion! Eyew.

[Fresh Wind]

My bed was made at the factory. Why should I make it again?

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I’ve not taken off the original plastic that covers both the box spring and mattress of my set. Does that keep dust mites off the mattress?

Probably out of the mattress and closer to ....YOU! Eyew.

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My bed was made at the factory. Why should I make it again?

BINGO!

[fatnotlazy]

I figure if I keep the whole house messy, I will be protected from burglars. They will look in and think my house has already been ransacked; then move on to someone else. LOL