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Bed bugs: Don't lose precious sleep over basic mattress maintenance
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
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October 20, 2002
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Copyright informationCopyright 2002 Sunday Gazette-Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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One of the most important items in anyone's home is often one of
the most overlooked. It's your bed. If you're lucky, you spend almost
a third of your life in it, yet you probably give it little thought
when it comes to maintenance or whether it's still doing the job for
which it is intended: allowing you a good night's sleep.
If you wake up frequently with pain and stiffness, if you
sometimes get a better night's sleep in another bed, you may not have
to look any farther for the cause than your own bed.
How you properly maintain a bed depends on what type of bed it is.
But there are basic guidelines everyone should follow:
Many mattresses need turning at regular intervals so they keep a ...
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