We clean most of our daily used household items on a regular basis, except for, our most intimate mattress where we spend 8 hours with every night. Most of us wonder what kind of cleaning and what level of maintenance is required.

Recent reports of bed bug infestations overseas have turned the spotlight onto our beds. In this episode, Shrey Bhargava takes swab samples from mattresses and pillows belonging to 3 households and sends them to a lab. Are our beds as clean as they seem? And could what we’re sleeping with every night be the source of some chronic health issues?

00:00 Introduction
02:31 Hunting bedbugs with an expert pestbuster
04:41 Checking the mattresses of three Singaporean families
08:10 How often should you change your bedsheets?
11:14 Results of the mattress surface test
14:58 How bed allergens can hurt you
17:35 Dust trapped inside your mattress?

About the show:
Talking Point investigates a current issue or event, offering different perspectives to local stories and revealing how it all affects you.
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