The Scientific Reason Why Making Your Bed Is A Terrible Idea

If you're lazy I know you're excited to read this but, you might throw up in your mouth when you read why you should leave your bed unmade.

Basically your bed is a breading ground for flesh-eating dust mites. They love being under your dark and humid covers mating, so that when you get in bed the next time... THERE ARE MORE OF THEM ready to eat your dead skin. Did your last meal start to reverse itself yet?

We sweat when we sleep and the beetle-like dust mites need that moisture to survive. When you make your bed, you trap the moisture from your sweat under there and the dust mites spend the day 'gettin' busy.'

Here's what happens if you leave your bed unmade, according to one researcher, Dr. Stephen Pretlove from Kingston University School of Architecture, quoted by Elite Daily.

"... leaving the bed unmade exposes the sheets to air and light, drying them out and thus, depleting the mites’ lifelines."

Dr. Pretlove explains,

“We know that mites can only survive by taking in water from the atmosphere ing small glands on the outside of their body…Something as simple as leaving a bed unmade during the day can remove moisture from the sheets and mattress so the mites will dehydrate and eventually die.”

If you have thrown up in your mouth yet, this next part ought to do it.

FYI, leaving your bed unmade won't take away the problem completely. But, like me, if you have dust allergies (which means we're allergic to the mite's poop) you really should give this a try.