How Often Should You Wash Your Sheets?

For your health, you’re most likely going to want to launder your linens more often.

Your sheets could be secretly harboring bacteria that may make you sick or irritate your skin.iStock

You slip between the sheets every day — they’re your home for a good night of sleep. And for as much contact our bodies make with our sheets, we let them go in between washes a surprisingly long time. The average person changes their sheets every 24 days, according to a survey of 1,000 Americans by Mattress Advisor. Respondents said that they could technically go longer, saying it would get gross at about 35 days.

Spoiler alert: That’s much longer than experts recommend. Here’s how often you should actually wash your sheets, and how not washing them enough may affect your health.

Read more here: https://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living/how-often-should-you-wash-your-sheets/