I love to sleep, you guys. It's awesome, right? Especially when you are an overtired mamá, snuggling up in your bed feels like a bit of heaven on earth. As much as I love spend some time between the sheets, for rest and other reasons (wink, wink), I'm so disgusted at what is lurking in my bed right now, that I'm not sure I can go near it until I give all the bedding a proper wash down in hot water. It's not that my bed is particularly gross, it's that all beds, yeah, yours too, can be pretty gross if you are not washing your bedding regularly. So how often should you be washing your bedding and what exactly are you sleeping with if you don't clean your bedding enough? Let me tell you.
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Ideally, you should be washing your sheets once a week. Once every other week is passable, anything longer than that will lead to you sleeping with all sorts of grossness. Your pillow should be washed twice a year. Oh and if there is illness going on fresh sheets ever 24 hours are recommended or at least a fresh pillowcase every 24 hours.
So what's in your bed and mine that is totally grossing me out right now? Well, in addition to dead skin cells, oil, sweat, bodily fluids, and maybe some food crumbs, you are sharing your bed with dust mites and their poop. Yuck!
Dust mites are everywhere, but the particularly like beds because they thrive in warm, moist areas. They are too small to see, which is good because I find them hideous and they can cause all sorts of health problems, think asthma and allergies.
It's easy to lose track of the last time you washed your sheets, but if you can't remember when that was, go now and wash your sheets and your kids sheets! You will rest better.
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