Mattress, Beds – Sleeping with the Enemy

Are you sleeping with some unpleasant bed partners? Even if you've invested in a luxurious mattress, your beds are still vulnerable to bed bugs.

There are certain things that we can't protect ourselves from – death, taxes and it seems, increasingly, bed bugs. It doesn't matter how clean or hygienic you are, or how clean you keep your mattress and beds. It doesn't necessarily matter if you have a brand new, beautiful, luxurious mattress. And if you're middle-class or a high earner, you're not immune to these little pests in your mattress. In fact, your mattress is more likely to be infested in bed bugs because you are middle-class or a high earner. Bed bugs died out in the UK after they were blitzed out of existence. Bed bugs were common in British mattresses in the 1930s and thrived in our beds until the 1960s. Pesticides were used to wipe out the bugs. But as such pesticides are now outlawed, the bugs have made something of a comeback.

At Home in Your Mattress

Bedbugs have become more immune to human poisons it seems, but the rise of the bed bug in the UK has also been put down to our love of foreign travel. If you are well-off and travel to far-flung destinations for work or pleasure, you're more likely to bring back with you some unwelcome hitchhikers. The bed bugs attach to your clothes, you give them a free ride home, they then make themselves at home in your beds and mattress. And even if you don't travel far afield, you're still vulnerable. If the infected jet setter then takes a bus or train to get home, the bed bugs can infect public transport making anyone who comes into contact with the bugs at risk.

Blood Suckers in the Mattress

Bed bugs are difficult for adults to deal with, but imagine the horror they can cause for kids? Anybody with memories of dealing with nits at school, will know how awful having bugs, itching and bites can be – and how classmates can suddenly treat you like you have leprosy. Female bed bugs can lay up to 250 eggs, which gives you some idea of the huge numbers of bugs that can live in your mattress. They live off your blood supply and the bites can in some cases be prominent like a mosquitoes even triggering rashes, although for some people they may be inconspicuous. The idea we are sharing our beds with thousands upon thousands of vampire-like bugs, crawling through our mattress, is enough to give anyone restless nights. Investing in a good mattress will help, but you also need to look after your mattress – cleaning it twice a month for example and washing bedsheets once a week. Experts also recommend that people pull back their duvets and leave their beds unmade to allow the mattress to air – bed bugs love humid conditions. Investing in a good mattress and pillows with anti-allergen qualities means you're half way to achieving a bed bug free zone.

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