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Title: Dust mites
Post by: kevvosa on October 10, 2006, 04:59:19 pm

How often do you wash your bedding? There was a programme on last night which now has me worried. It says you need to hoover your mattress and wash bedding often to get rid of dust mites. I think I'm gonna have to start changing my bedding a lot more often now 

Title: Dust mites
Post by: smurfboy on October 10, 2006, 06:34:54 pm

I have never hoovered my mattress. I might do it now!

Title: Dust mites
Post by: kevvosa on October 10, 2006, 06:47:03 pm

How oftren do you change your bedding? 

Title: Dust mites
Post by: smurfboy on October 10, 2006, 07:53:27 pm

You're supposed to change it?

Title: Dust mites
Post by: kevvosa on October 10, 2006, 09:00:34 pm

Yes, unless you want loads of these living in your bed:

Title: Dust mites
Post by: bethypoos on October 10, 2006, 10:02:40 pm

eurghhhhh...

....i'm off to wash and hoover now

Title: Dust mites
Post by: goldencup on October 10, 2006, 10:31:17 pm

I change my bedding regularly (I'm not being the first to admit how often this is!) and I do hoover the mattress occasionally.  But stuff like this doesn't really bother me, we share our homes with all sorts of things that we don't need to know about.

Title: Dust mites
Post by: lucifersplaym8t on October 10, 2006, 11:13:59 pm

Hoovered my mattress (don't ask me why) the other night for the first time in years!! Pleased to say I change my sheets more often! Anyway, bed bugs must be good for the immune system surely?!

Title: Dust mites
Post by: kevvosa on October 10, 2006, 11:18:20 pm

Apparently dust mites can cause hayfever and itchy eyes, amongst other things.

I can see now why the saying goes "Don't let the bed bugs bite".

Title: Dust mites
Post by: goldencup on October 11, 2006, 09:26:35 am

Bed bugs are something totally different - I've seen one.  I once had to look them up on the internet at work for somebody to identify as they'd found it in their bedsit and very kindly brought it in to show me!

Title: Dust mites
Post by: goldencup on October 11, 2006, 09:27:43 am

And I seem to remember reading that in order to kill dust mites you have to wash your bedding at 60 degrees.  So unless you do that you're probably wasting your time (from the dust mite point of view that is!). goldencup39001.3577546296

Title: Dust mites
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on October 11, 2006, 09:42:54 am

I change my bedding once per week and turn / flip the mattress but I have never actually hoovered the mattress. I love the cosy feeling of getting into a clean, freshly made bed and I think it makes me sleep better.

Title: Dust mites
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 11, 2006, 12:32:39 pm

I hate clean freash sheets, I can never sleep!

Title: Dust mites
Post by: kevvosa on October 11, 2006, 01:48:39 pm

Quote from: 623058

I hate clean freash sheets, I can never sleep!

I'm the other way round - I LOVE fresh clean sheets.