Making Bed Germs

1 is a fertile breeding ground for bacteria fungi and other vermin.

Making bed germs. The habit may be bad for your health. If like the lazier among us you skip making your bed in the morning you re saving yourself by exposing the dust mites to the regular atmosphere of your house. If you immediately make your bed with the sunrise the tight sheets will trap millions of dust mites that live on your bed feeding off your dead skin cells and sweat and potentially contributing to asthma and allergy problems. Some scientists think you should start being a little messier.

Given warmth darkness and a smorgasbord of delectable bodily fluids it is not surprising that the well made bed fig. But a certain group of scientists disagree with us for one very dirty reason. They die making your bed just a little less gross at the end of the day. Moving air and sun are too harsh for these little creatures.

If you just ran to your bedroom and ripped the doona off in disgust don t panic. A small pool full of millions of tiny dust mites and dead castaway skin cells. That s because dust mites the little microscopic critters that trigger asthma and allergies in some people thrive in the humid warm conditions of a neatly made bed but dry out when the blankets are left thrown off. Your bed might look clean but actually be full of disgusting microscopic contaminants.

According to new reports you shouldn t be making your bed every morning. Here s how the theory goes.