DYK: Pillower can accumulate more bacteria than on the seat in the toilet in just a week


June 19, 2025. 16:56 – this

Don’t read this if you don’t want to develop ICK against your own pillow …

Who doesn’t love their bed?

Your pillowcase can accumulate more bacteria than the toilet seat in just a week (photo: today medical news)
Your pillowcase can accumulate more bacteria than the toilet seat in just a week (photo: today medical news)

It doesn’t matter if you are ultra-pursued planning or just the one who likes to take things slowly and easily (all the time) or may be anything that satisfies the parallel sensation of the head that beats the pillow on the end of the day. Blessing!

Well, we are here to reduce your favorite time of the day, hoping that you wet the dead. We mean a pillowcase, a little more often. Studies conducted by a mattress, amerisleep have shown that the pillowcases left unwashed throughout the week could breed up to 3 million units forming a colony (CFU) bacteria per square inch. This is approximately 17,000 times that the number of bacteria that are on the usual toilet make the pillows of one of the dirtiest surfaces that we often touch.

As a rule, this is usually considered a good practice of washing sheets every 1 to 2 weeks so that they are clean and fresh. You can slightly consider the regularity of -like some comprehensive factors, such as when you sweat a lot at night, have allergies or share your pets. But even in these scripts, once a week, you still need to do the trick. Assuming that you turn the pillows with sheets, after a regular week, potentially minimizes bacterial falls, well, sleep. And do sleep hygiene hygiene by adding adolescents when you send sheets and pillows for their weekly wash and you should be good.

From a lighter note, the reactions from the Internet to this opening, as usual, funny: “a cool story, just turn it in the cool side”, “You didn’t see my place in the toilet”, “That’s why I sleep on my toilet”, “No wonder my immune system can handle anything” and “I do it.

But returning to immediate measures, throw this pillowcase into the washing machine, right?

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