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Sophie Harris & Danielle Kate Wroe

Bed expert shares how often to wash your sheets to eradicate 'dust mites' and 'germs'

We all know that regularly washing bedding is an important task - but just how often should you be doing it in order to keep things as clean as possible? It can be all too easy to just leave it for another day, but with the weather slightly warming up, you'll want to get into good routines if you're not already - everybody wants to avoid dust mites and sweat.

And if you're not washing your sheets every week, it turns out you should be, as otherwise, you're leaving yourself exposed to around 20,000 dust mites - which isn't ideal, especially if you're an allergy sufferer.

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