Duvet bugs?

[Martin]

Since I posted this news article : –

http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.p … e&sid=1631

…..it did occur to me that if the ‘research’ has any truth in it and that 20,000 dust mites do occupy a typical duvet? Then why doesn’t the ‘Duvet Cover’ prevent them getting there in the first place?

Now I obviously realise that dust mites are pretty tiny creatures and more than likely they do move through the fibres of the cover and into the duvet itself. But surely if one went to the trouble of regularly washing just the duvet cover, there wouldn’t be any dust mites to make the journey into the duvet in the first place?

So, without asking those scientists and professors at Worcester University as to what they would recommend would solve the problem. I conclude that washing your duvet cover regularly will not only prevent the dust mite infestation in you duvet. BUT will also prevent the necessity of purchasing a Hotpoint Aqualtis in order to wash that duvet anyhow! 🙂

[kwatt]

Re: Duvet bugs?

This is old news Martin. In fact there’s more bugs and skin residues as well as other body fluids in a matress but then you can’t fit one of them into a washer period, so therefore a useless fact for the promotion of Hotpoint’s latest.

Yes, I am very jaded to marketing and advertising in general. Fair play though, Hotpoint got column space out the play.

IIRC the was reported in New Scientist many years ago, I seem to recall a similarly themed horror story of bugs in the bed… but “don’t let the bedbugs bite” is hardly a new term. 😉

I can even tell you that an unmade bed harbours less bugs as there’s more of an airing to the matress which apparently dries it out thereby killing some of the little critters.

But little studies like this are probably of great interest to geeks that like to spend a lot of time in and around thier beds, not that I’d infer that geeks and students are lazy. 😉

K.

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