10 unnecessarily dirty facts about your bed
Not had breakfast yet? Then I would skip this article. Germophobia? Click away now to avoid trauma. Still here? You dirty bastard. You spend a third of your life between the sheets. You would think that the bed is a place we take care of with a lot of love and attention. Well, think again...
1. You have, um, more bed partners than you think. More than one and a half million dust mites keep us company every night. Holy s....
2. Strange but true: an unmade bed contains fewer dust mites than a neatly made bed. This is because your bed is still warm when you've just slept in it. So when you get up, open the windows for a bit and only make your bed after showering.
3. I really can't handle this right now, but your mattress gets Every. Year. Gross. Heavier. Every week you lose three liters of sweat in your sleep. After ten years, your old mattress has been exposed to 1800 liters of sweat.
4. Okay, a small detour from the bed to the carpet, because this little rascal isn't too fresh either. The carpet in your bedroom contains 4000 times more bacteria than your toilet. I, um, have an extremely nice rug that I spontaneously don't find so nice anymore...
5. Research from Ergoflex shows that women wear the same pajamas for an average of seventeen nights. It is recommended to wash your nightwear after three days to prevent bacteria and dead skin cells from settling in. Sorry, but seventeen? Really???
6. Oh, and your pillow contains about 350,000 bacteria, so definitely consider buying a new one every now and then. You sleep on the same thing every night. Due to skin flakes, hair, and sweat, it is therefore a paradise for dust mites, even through the pillowcase. Brrr.
7. Professor Philip Tierno Jr. from New York University’s Langone Medical Center emphasizes the importance of clean sheets. According to him, we lose not only hair and dead skin cells but also dandruff. And we breathe that in during our nap. I'm about to vomit.
8. While you blissfully toss your head on your pillow, you're also tossing among your hair. Every night you lose a handful of hair and this disappears between the sheets.
9. In the Netherlands, The Hague is the city with the cleanest hotel beds. Worldwide, Tokyo, Warsaw, and Helsinki score the best.
10. Oh, and as a dessert: once you've read this, you'll never want to work from bed again.
