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now this might be

a little creepy video but there are

microbes

actually living in your mattress so

that’s the topic for today so i’m just

trying to increase your awareness

because a lot of people have no idea

what’s going on in their mattresses the

place that they spend one third of their

life

sleeping so let’s first talk about dust

mites okay what are dust mites well

there are small

tiny tiny little microorganisms that um

thrive in your mattress

they thrive in your pillow so at any one

time you might have

10 million of them living in your

mattress

and they don’t bite you okay they just

live on your dead skin cells and an

average person will shed over a million

pieces of little dead skin particles

every single day and so these dust mites

have plenty to eat the male dust mite

lives for about 10 to 19 days

but a female will live about 70 days and

produce over 100 eggs and it really

depends on the moisture so

if your bathroom is attached to your

bedroom and you take a shower and you

leave the door open and you have all

this moisture in there or it’s the

summer time and you leave the window

open it’s very very

humid that can really allow these dust

mites to thrive

so it may be a good idea to limit that

and you might even want to get a

dehumidifier but with dust mites you are

the food and the big problem is the

allergies people are sensitive to them

and they’ll wake up congested they might

have red eyes they might start sneezing

but don’t worry at the end i’m going to

tell you what to do about all this all

right number two bed bugs okay you don’t

want to let the bed bugs bite you

because they do bite you the size of a

bed bug is about the size of an apple

seed

and

they can’t fly but they can run pretty

quickly on the floor on the ceiling

so they’re pretty fast little critters

and in one study they found that uh they

counted how many of these bed bugs were

in a mattress and they found two

thousand so there’s quite a few of them

that could be living in your bed and

they bite you while you’re sleeping and

they have this little tube that they can

inject into for about three to ten

minutes

and they live on your blood and so if

you wake up

with a little um itchy red bump

it could be a bed bug all right now

let’s get to the next topic

fungus and bacteria but i apologize in

advance i’m going to gross you out a

little bit but an average adult sweats

26

gallons

in their bed every single year i mean

that is a crazy amount of sweat coming

out of your body and that breeds an

environment for fungus and bacteria

unfortunately there was a recent lab

test done

on seven-year-old mattresses and they

found 16 million colony units

of bacteria per

inch

okay so there’s a lot of microbes living

in your mattress and this could affect

you by waking up with a stuffy nose um

waking up sneezing red itchy eyes

and then number four we have this thing

called pet dander over 50 of pet owners

actually share their bed with their pet

and of course pets bring in all sorts of

things into the bed it’s it’s a common

source for things like fleas and ticks

so you may want to consider potentially

having a pet-free zone in your bed and

maybe having them sleep on the floor or

in another room all right and number

five chemicals when your body heats up

when you’re sleeping in the mattress

there are certain chemicals that get

released they’re called volatile organic

compounds you have an increased release

of formaldehyde and many other chemicals

that can be released and not to mention

all the new chemicals that can occur

with a new mattress so what are we going

to do about this well number one regular

washing of your bedding and your sheets

with very hot water

i would also add some baking soda in

there because baking soda will kill

microbes the next thing i would do is i

would try to reduce humidity as much as

you can keep your bathroom shut maybe

keep the windows closed if it’s if it’s

hot outside or just have a dehumidifier

going on in the room avoid pet exposure

if you have a problem with some of these

issues get a good air purifier because

if there’s chemicals that are released

from the bed and you have allergies

that can greatly help you add the baking

soda to the wash which i already

mentioned and number six

vacuum your mattress

on a regular basis because

things accumulate because you want to

keep the microbial population

at a minimum

so i’m sorry i grossed yet on this video

so the next video that i think you

should watch

is on growing certain plants in your

room to increase more oxygen so you can

sleep better i put it up right here

check it out

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