Posted by Cass on January 27, 2005, at 0:51:23
This is from Nutrition Hints from Betty Kamen, PhD, and Dr. Michael Rosenbaum, by Nutrition Encounter www.bettykamen.com
Hint #1721: Don't Make Your Bed!
Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy because it sets up an environment that is unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.Hard to believe, but you may have plenty of company at night: you may be sleeping with 1.5 million house dust mites. However, these bugs cannot survive in the dry conditions found in an unmade bed.
Simply leaving a bed unmade during the day can remove moisture from the sheets and mattress so the mites will dehydrate and eventually die. The mites need a humid environment to thrive, a condition which gets “sealed in” when you throw bedspreads over the bed.
The bugs, which are less than a millimeter long, feed on the scales of your skin and produce allergens which you easily inhale during sleep.
House-dust mite allergen can be a trigger for those with asthma.
Source: Kingston University Study, BBC Report, England, Jan 2005.
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