Dust Mites

[AB]

I don't know about anybody else, but the thought of these things in my bed with me gives me the creeps hugely...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4181629.stm

[Matt Evans]

AB said:

I don't know about anybody else, but the thought of these things in my bed with me gives me the creeps hugely...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4181629.stm

You do know this isn't a life size photograph?

[PPPPPP]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/...

This was reported earlier requesting bedding is washed more often, in a report sponsored by Hotpoint.

To be fair, it does say that men are cleaner than women.

[WorAl]

Matt Evans said:

AB said:

I don't know about anybody else, but the thought of these things in my bed with me gives me the creeps hugely...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4181629.stm

You do know this isn't a life size photograph?

.....and you do know that they are pretty much impossible to avoid.

[Dave^]

I've woken up next to worse...

[jmorgan]

Ever hoovered a bed with one of them clear dust bag jobbies?

Lots of white stuff......... dust mite num nums in bucket loads.

[Matt Evans]

I once heard from a vacuum cleaner salesman that the average mattress will contain the equivalent in weight of an extra body, just in dead skin cells. Don't know how much truth there is in it, bearing in mind the source of the information. But it would explain why mattresses seem heavier when you get rid of them than when you buy them.

[soad]

Horrible little creatures fkers, aren't they? Gives me the creeps.

Now i have an excuse not to make my bed, charming.

[spitfire-ian]

soad said:

Horrible little creatures fkers, aren't they? Gives me the creeps.

Now i have an excuse not to make my bed, charming.

To be honest you had that excuse back in 2005 when that article dates from

[soad]

spitfire-ian said:

soad said:

Horrible little creatures fkers, aren't they? Gives me the creeps.

Now i have an excuse not to make my bed, charming.

To be honest you had that excuse back in 2005 when that article dates from

What, yet another re-post. Surely not.

Okay, i probably read the original article back then too. Just cannot recall it, my memory is blank.

Edited by soad on Monday 25th January 14:50