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Pillowcases full of germs and bacteria: how often should you change them

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Quality sleep also involves changing the pillowcases, did you know? In addition to having a comfortable bed for the body, where we rest our head, makes a difference.

Let’s discover how this simple object is capable of  influencing our rest and quality of life.

Change of sheets and pillowcases.

We know that changing the sheets is important to rest well. Especially if we don’t want  to lie in bed, for fear of not being completely alone.

In fact, we are accompanied, without knowing it, by dead skin cells, dust mites, dirt, sweat and many other fauna that, although we do not see, are there.

On the other hand, we all  spend about a third of our lives sleeping,  so if we don’t change our sheets frequently, we run the risk of sleeping in a nest of bacteria.

This is a condition that can affect our health, so it all depends on the environment in which we find ourselves and the  personal habits of each of us.

If many advise us to change them at least once a week, it is also true that for good conservation of the sheets, every morning we must air them, leave the bed open, stretch them and ventilate the room with the window open to let them dry completely  before  getting ready. to make the bed.

The frequency of changing should be increased to two or three times a week depending on our health and sleeping habits.

For this reason, people who sleep naked, sweat a lot or are sick  are more exposed  and tend to accumulate more microorganisms, so it will be necessary to increase the frequency of washing the sheets.

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