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Now this might be a little creepy video, but there are microbes actually living in your mattress. So that's the topic for today. So I'm just trying to increase your awareness because a lot of

people have no idea what's going on in their mattresses. The place that they spend one third of their life,

sleeping. So let's first talk about dust mites. Okay, what are dust mites? Well, there are small,

tiny, tiny little microorganisms that thrive in your mattress. They thrive in your pillow.

So at any one time, you might have 10 million of them living in your mattress. And they don't bite you. Okay. They just live on your dead skin cells.

And an average person will shed over a million pieces of little dead skin particles every single day.

And so these dust mites have plenty to eat.

The male dust mite lives for about 10 to 19 days, but a female will live about 70 days and

produced over 100 eggs. And it really depends on the moisture. So if your bathroom is attached to your

bedroom and you take a shower and you leave the door open and you have all this moisture in there,

or it's the summertime and you leave the window open, it's very, very humid, that can really

allow these dust mites to thrive. So it may be a good idea to limit that. And you might even

want to get a dehumidifier. But with dust mites, you are the food. And the big problem is allergies.

People are sensitive to them and they'll have to wake up congested. They might have red eyes.

They might start sneezing. But don't worry, at the end,

I'm going to tell you what to do about all this. All right, number two, bed bugs. You don't want to

let the bed bugs bite you because they do bite you. The size of a bed bug is about the size of an

apple seed. And they can't fly, but they can run pretty quickly on the floor, on the ceiling.

So they're pretty fast little critters.

And in one study, they found that they counted how many of these bedbugs were in a mattress,

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