Sunny Health

Our bedroom is where we recuperate our bodies, so it only makes sense that it should be healthy and promote quality sleep. Before worrying about diets and exercise, start off the year with a fundamental and highly achievable goal of making your bedroom hygienic and comfortable!

Keep the rubbish out of your room

Many of us are fond of snacking while watching our favourite Youtube videos in our room, blowing our noses and throwing it into the waste paper basket out of convenience. Junk in the room breeds germs and insects. Make it a regular practice to clear your waste paper basket or rubbish bag on a daily basis, morning and night. Move that waste paper basket to the kitchen and walk out to throw your rubbish. You get more exercise this way too.

Clean your mattress

Many of us change our mattress sheets, but we don’t do anything about the mattress, which is unhygienic as the mattress can absorb perspiration and be a potential home to dust mites and toxins.
If you live in an apartment block, it is quite impossible to give it some strong sunlight, the best way to eradicate germs. However, vacuuming it frequently can get rid of dust, while using a dry cleaning product like Febreze to spray the mattress whenever you change the sheets helps to reduce the toxics and gives your mattress a fresh smell.

Sun your sheets

If it is a sunny day, sun your sheets instead of popping them into the drier. Sunning your sheets not only dries them but also gets rid of bacteria.

Don’t sleep with the air-conditioning

If your air conditioner is not cleaned or maintained regularly, bacteria can build up easily within the aircon units, causing you to fall ill. In addition, the air conditioner is drying on skin. Switch to the fan on a warm day; it is a greener and cheaper way to stay cool.

No lights at night

Sleeping with the light switched on can impair a person's body clock. Our body sleeps more restfully in the dark. If there is light, the body will assume it is day time, a time to be awake and alert. This can affect the quality of sleep. A pitch dark room is most conducive for restful sleep. If your bedroom window faces a well-lit corridor, cover it with curtains. For those who have night blindness or do not feel comfortable without lights, sleeping with some dim night lights is fine.

Trade mothballs for lavender

Put lavender sachets in your storage boxes and cupboard in place of mothballs. Lavender is a natural moth and mite repellent, and smells great too. You can make them yourself by buying dried lavender and sewing them in a little pillow. Place one next to your pillow. Lavender has sedative qualities that help to induce sleep.