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We all do more or less the same things when we wake up, consciously or not, thinking they are right. One of these actions is harmful to hygiene and our health, which one? It is an essential step, to be done, but at a different time than the 99% of us do every morning.
We all make this mistake when we wake up
What do you do as soon as you wake up? Before breakfast, before showering and going to the bathroom, I too used to make this mistake, then I discovered it with great astonishment. Perhaps like me many years ago, you too today, as soon as you get out of bed, stretch out to stretch and loosen up after 8 hours of sleep, and then? Probably make the bed, even roughly so as not to collect dust. You don't have to do it, why? Keep reading to find out!
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Mattress maintenance and upkeep
Small precautions and even occasional operations will allow you to greatly extend the life of your mattress. What are the main mattress maintenance operations:
- Use the mattress protector to maintain hygiene;
- the coverlet to protect the mattress from dust from under the bed;
- beat the mattress from time to time, or treat it with a specific anti-dust mite vacuum cleaner;
- turn it frequently;
- the most important: avoid making the bed when you wake up.
The bed should not be made as soon as you wake up in the morning, because while we sleep we emit a quantity of heat and sweat (even if we don't drip, we sweat, we release steam) that is absorbed by the mattress. If you cover it as soon as you wake up, you are not helping the mattress release this heat and let the moisture escape.
Why is this action so harmful? Moisture and heat create a favorable environment for dust mites, which also feed on dead epithelial cells. Furthermore, heat and moisture are certainly not friends of the mattress, polyurethanes, which make up 40 to 95% of the mattress, deteriorate quickly in such adverse conditions.
How to solve it to keep the mattress in excellent condition
The bed should be made, of course, but not immediately. Let it breathe for at least 10 minutes, cover it only before leaving home, your mattress and your health will thank you!
How long does a mattress last
On average, a standard quality mattress lasts about 8 years, after which it will no longer be able to perform enough to meet the needs of the spine and generally our body, which must be supported linearly, and must not sink.
Especially the most high-performance mattresses should be changed sooner, the harder, simpler ones because they are not adaptive, they show their deficiencies due to time less, because they are not self-modeling from the beginning.
