British sleep on dirty sheets

Almost a fifth of people in the UK change the sheets once a month, and about 1% do it once a year. Meanwhile, the dirty sheets are home to dust mites, which cause asthma, eczema and rhinitis, as the experts warn.

Research about hygiene in the bedrooms, which was attended by 2000 people, gave surprising results in the UK. It turned out that more than half of the population is actually sleeping on dirty sheets. And it is women who should be blamed for the fact that bed linen   It does not occur in time. Overall, only 40% of Britons changing sheets every week, as required by the rules of hygiene.

36% trail new sheets every two weeks, 17% once a month, and 1% - only once a year! Only 6% of the population engaged in this issue more often than once a week. 3% of respondents could not remember at all how often they change the sheets. In regard to gender differences in the change of sheets, women were more lazy than men. More than half of the fair sex does not wash the sheets every week, 12% of women wipes once a month, and 1% does not erase never.

On the other hand, 40% of men produce   change of bed linen   once a week, and as much as 8% - even most of it. And they are right. Experts in the field of allergy lay it on the dirty sheets and inhabit them dust mite outbreaks of diseases such as asthma, eczema and rhinitis. After all, people spend on the sheets a third of his life, and you must make sure that this huge amount of time held in suitable in terms of hygiene conditions. (READ MORE)

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