How often should you change your bed?

We can be very brief in answering the question 'how often should you change your bed'? Preferably every week! Of course we would also like to explain to you why you should change your bed every week and we would like to know from you how often you actually change your bed.

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Change your bed, how often do you do that?

I learned from my parents that you should change your bed every week. But if I'm very honest, I have to admit that I've only been doing that for about a year. Before that I really didn't get to change our bed every week and I was happy if I could change our bedding once every 2-3 weeks. I still really have to consciously make the choice, but sleeping in a clean bed makes me so happy that I made the choice quickly these days.

Why changing your bed once a week is so sensible

Your bed is a hotbed for fungi, bacteria and dust mites. I once did a review of this Dyson V6 Mattress to get dust mites out of my mattress. Dirty dude, what's in your mattress. And it doesn't stop there of course, it is also in your duvet and also in your bedding. That alone should be reason enough to change your bedding weekly. But night sweats and pleasant moments with your partner also ensure that your bed needs to be changed regularly 😉 . Even if your duvet still looks 'clean', perspiration, dead skin cells and saliva can make your bed and pillow dirtier than you think.

Changing your bed is not only important to remove all bacteria and dust mites and the like, but it is also important to be able to sleep well. Because you can sleep up to 8 hours a night or want your children to get enough sleep, if you lie under dirty bedding you really sleep less well.

The daily-maintenance of your bedding

So when asked how often you should change your bed, the answer is simple, once a week † But if you can't make it now to throw your bedding in the laundry once a week, at least make sure you keep to the following rhythm to air your bed daily:

• sleep as much as possible with the window open to ventilate your bedroom well
• open your duvet during the day instead of making your bed nicely
• You should also keep your window open during the day
• use a molton fitted sheet as good protection for your mattress
• Hang your duvet out of the window to air out when you wash your bedding, but also a few extra times a week
• Wash your bed cover using a laundry perfume. These laundry perfumes are delicious!

What if you don't change your bed often enough?

Do you - just like me before - not feel like or have time to change your bed every week and do you wonder how often you should change your bed to at least stay healthy? I have an answer for that too. As mentioned, changing your bed once a week is best (or maybe even twice a week), but it's also always a lot of work. You must:

• Remove your duvet cover, pillowcases, moltons and fitted sheets (from all beds in the house)
• Put everything in the washing machine, and assume that with the bedding of a double bed your washing machine is already full
• Dry everything (tumble dryer is possible, preferably outside of course, that is also better for the environment)
• make your bed again…. aarrrggghhhh

So I understand if you don't feel like this every week, especially if you also have to change the children's beds once a week. But what happens if you don't change the bed often enough?

Complaints you can get from not-changing enough

That is a whole series of complaints:

• a stuffy nose
• asthmatic complaints
• allergic complaints
• infections such as skin irritations and fungal nails, but also athlete's foot and even a bladder infection

All because of accumulated dust mites (and their droppings), bacteria, fungi and even staphylococci that build up in your bed if you don't change it in time. The latter can even enter your bloodstream through a wound and have very unpleasant consequences.

How often do you change your bed?

Research into British habits shows that half a million Britons only change their bed three times a year. brrr. How often do you change your bed?