Making your bed is bad for your health?

Who wants you to make your bed? Bed bugs do!

Yesterday, Adam Yates pointed out that according to some recent research by scientists in the UK, not making your bed kills dust mites.

Dust mites can trigger asthma and have also been linked to eczema and a condition called perennial rhinitis, described as being a type of 'year round hayfever'. "House dust mites feed on scales of human skin so they love to share our beds. The allergens they produce are easily inhaled during sleep and are a major cause of illnesses," accoding to Dr Stephen Pretlove, from Kingston University, south-west London, who led the study.

But a made bed looks so much nicer than an unmade bed.

So does health trump aesthetics or vice versa?

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