Want to kill off millions of dust mites?
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
October 3, 2016 10:26am CST
It seems that dust mites make the news very often and every time I read about them I start scratching. I guess that's a natural instinct. Scientists have come up with a solution to help kill off those annoying dust mites the safe way.
No sprays, no vacuuming nor anything out of the ordinary - just stop making your bed. According to the 'bug people in the know' if you don't make your bed the little buggers will die off.
I don't know about you, but my mother told me to make sure the bed is made every morning. You don't want a crook breaking in and finding you're a messy housekeeper LOL.
So this is a mental thing - do the live bugs in your neatly made bed scare you more than the dead ones in your unmade bed? The article goes go on to give ways to get ride of bed bugs via other methods. The choice is yours (and mine).
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While it may be better for your mental health to make your bed , it could be better for your physical health to leave it a complete mess, say scientists.
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@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
3 Oct 16
Yay!!!! No more bed making for me!!
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
3 Oct 16
@AbbyGreenhill They never try killing me off.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 16
@Asylum they could be potting your demise as we type......
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 16
Maybe you like them...if so, let them be.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 16
Bedrooms should be private, but I still like a little neatness.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
6 Oct 16
Now that sounds very odd indeed. I don't know how a made bed would support dust mites, you'd think it would be the other way around. I used to make my bed daily, but with my husband and I getting up at different times of the day, I just don't bother anymore unless we're getting company.
I've been making it a bit more to keep spiders and other insects that seem to come in with the weather changes out, but I don't know whether that does much good or not.
I hope that people don't equate dust mites to bed bugs for they are different critters even though there may be either kind in one's bed.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
6 Oct 16
I don't know, I still make my bed every day but getting a new mattress today so I'm starting fresh LOL
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 16
I think my mother would roll over in her grave if I didn't make my bed - oh wait - she was cremated.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 16
LOL, I take it you don't make your bed.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Oct 16
If a housekeeper has crisp army style corners on her beds then how do the mites get out? Hehe
@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Oct 16
@AbbyGreenhill ....Just a sort of lilting haha in hehe form.
@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
3 Oct 16
That would be very hard for me, because I was brought up to making my bed either first thing in the morning or within the first hour or so of the day to make it. If I didn't make the bed, I would feel like my house was a true mess.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 16
Same here, but we're getting our Sleep Number bed Thursday so I'll be starting fresh w/o dust mites LOL
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
3 Oct 16
How exactly does not making the bed kill the dust mites? I can't stand to not make my bed. It feels so yucky climbing into a bed that wasn't made.
@sallypup (69220)
• Centralia, Washington
3 Oct 16
I'm allergic to the little buggers. Probably why I am itchy all the time.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 16
I am glad I'm not allergic. Ugh...
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
3 Oct 16
We have had my mother doing her exercises regularly, since she passed away in November. We don't give her much rest. We are constantly causing her to spin in her grave....I keep my bed made, but on laundry day the mattress airs all day!
@JudyEv (382440)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Oct 16
I read the article but I don't think they're talking about bed bugs, just dust mites. I always think if my bed is as good to get into as when I got out of it, I don't want to change a thing.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
6 Oct 16
It says dust mites. There are things I just don't worry about.
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