4 Gross Reasons To Change Your Bed Sheets At Least Once Per Week
When it comes to hygiene, no one ever thinks twice about its importance. It’s common knowledge that nobody likes stinky breath or smelly body odor. People go through various daily rituals such as showering, teeth brushing, deodorant application and flossing to ensure that they do not “reek” during their active hours, but what about hygiene during the dormant hours?
Ever wonder about your bed’s hygiene?
How often should you be washing your sheets? Here are 4 big reasons to change your bed sheets once per week:
1. Your Skin: Believe it or not, humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin each hour. If you multiply that by the average recommended eight hour dosage of sleep that equals 4,800,000 particles of skin per-night. Now, consider this: if you, alone, shed 4,800,000 particles of skin in one night, partners that share a bed shed 9,600,000 particles of skin nightly – talk about a combined effort. A single person may shed 33,600,000 particles of skin in one week, whereas a couple may shed 67,200,000 particles of skin in one week.
2. Bed Bugs: Now, consider this: whatever amount of skin you shed last night remains in your bed while you are out being productive. However, rest assured that right this moment, microscopic bugs are busy feeding on your dead skin. Gross!
It’s difficult to decipher which sounds worse: pounds of dead skin in your bed, or millions of microscopic critters feasting on your dead skin right now… where you’ll sleep again, tonight. With that in mind, washing your sheets weekly is a great idea.
3. Salts: Ever watch your dog lick your bed sheets and wonder why? You need not wonder any longer: the answer is that your dog, Rover, likes the salty taste in your sheets, for the same reason he enjoys licking you. Your sweat contains essential salts from the body—a taste and a smell that Rover finds delectable. During sleep, the human body sweats, even without the individual realizing it. The sweat leaves a thin coat of salt upon the sheets, and Rover knows it.
4. Sweat: Now of course there’s the sweat itself; the simple solution for this problem? Washing your sheets regularly will eliminate the salt licking, not to mention whatever odors come with either the layers of sweat and/or dog saliva!
