Dating : The horror of knowing many tiny living things are overlooked and feasting on us every day is a…

The horror of knowing many tiny living things are overlooked and feasting on us every day is a consideration you may give closer attention to. Two million of them live in your mattress right now. Microscopic mites, waiting for you and me to sleep, then munch on our tasty morsels of skin and sebaceous oils.

To our pillows, we trust our heads find comfort, a safe place to escape the world in welcome dreams. However, there in your relief zone, up to 40,000 mites are making a home and waiting for you, their next meal.

According to Dr. John Maunder of the British Medical Entomology Centre, one-tenth of the average pillow’s weight, being six years old, will be comprised of “sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites, and mite dung.”

How might those facts affect your desire to purchase a new pillow or flip your mattress?