I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

I find that hard to believe and I hope I am right. If not, eck!

...Jane

Forget counting sheep, just imagine counting the little mites. Heck, forget sleeping tight, that is enough to cause nightmares.

Wow.

Guess I gotta start sleepin' in the leather recliner!

Faron

It sounds like an urban legend in the making.

Here is a link that might be useful: The straight dope

hmmmm, I don't know about that amount, but we use pillow and mattress protectors. Don't forget to give the mattress a good vacumming - regularly.

tina

I'd purchase dust mite pillow and mattress protectors and look for a new Allergist. We replace our pillows every 2 years or so because my husband's pillows are often damp in the morning from sweat. They are synthetic down and it's easier to replace them than wash them.

Fretting over microbes is not the way I intend to live my life. I guess everyone has their own comfort level, but I'm not going to worry about what's lurking in my own personal pillow.

Hmmm...can you microwave a pillow?

LOL Jen, I don't fret over it either, but as someone who is allergic to dustmites, it is a consideration for me. A couple of quick, easy changes can make a big difference in my comfort.

However, I don't intend to weigh my pillows LOL.

tina

Absolutely - allergies call for action. I definitely understand that! But just being freaked out by the sheer "yuckiness" of it all, well, that's not something I care to spend a lot of time on.
;-)

Wonder how we made in the 50's and 60's growing up? (lol)

I have pillow protectors over our pillows.
Hubby drools in his sleep...'nuff said. ;)

But I can attest to what collects in mattresses.
Why?
I have the original free-float waterbed, King. Wood sides/frame with very padded rails that slip over the wood side so when you are getting in bed you aren't sitting on hard wood but padding.

All that to say that every couple months I strip the bed of all it's bedding, including the thick mattress cover/protector, right down to the vinyl mattress.
It's so fine that it goes through not only the mattress protector, bit also the very thick king-size comforter that we use instead of the electric mattress heater, And the bottom sheet of the waterbed sheet set.

When I change/vac the mattress/bedding with the bedroom windows open, I could literally write my name in the fine dust that is on the vinyl mattress.

What I should do next time is take a pic....you'd be amazed and probably really grossed out at the very fine dust-like stuff on the vinyl mattress.
Not just the mattress but collecting along the sides where the mattress butts up against the liner/wood railing.

We aren't talking 'dust' but really fine, float-in-the-air stuff that I have read comes from our bodies when the body sheds it's cells.
The body sheds about a pound of old skin cells daily and it's those cells that the mites thrive on, live off of.

So every couple months there I am with the poofy brush attachment to the vac, getting all that fine 'dust' from between the mattress and liner/wood railing. Then a quick swipe with the vac over the whole bare vinyl mattress.

Then an old hand towel soaked in good-smelling Pine-Sol and wrung out to wipe the whole top of the mattress, sides, etc.
When dry, I can remake my bed.

All this to say.....

because of my hubby's allergies, our bedroom is vac'd much more often than the rest of the house.....lamp shades, fan blades, etc get a good vac at least twice a week.

All that 'fine dust' on the vinyl waterbed mattress once the blankets and mattress cover are removed, can't just be typical room dust...has to be ...EEEEEEEEK....body dust/shed skin cells/mites.

Yes, we shower daily. lol

I don't think I'm very clean now!

I won't tell how long I've had my pillow....

Look what lives on your eyelashes.

Here is a link that might be useful: Eyelash creatures

Oh Ideefixe...that's even grosser than the detailed explanation I gave in MY post!

EWWWWWW!

:)

ACK! get those worms off of me!! OMG, we're hosts for all kinds of microscopic parasites.
I knew I shouldn't have clicked on that link. :O

Ok, I'm ordering anti-mite products now...

Here is a link that might be useful: products that kill & neutralizer mites

I don't believe it about the pillow. That sounds like a myth to me. I really didn't need to see those eyelash creatures.

But really, there are germs and microbes and dust mites everywhere.

must.. not... click..eyelash link. .

Dangit. I wish I didn't know that. I never knew that! I didn't want to know that! The visuals didn't help. :)

At least the eyelash creatures don't poop. Thank goodness for small miracles.