Your favorite pillow holds an entire ecosystem of disgusting bugs and potentially deadly fungi, a new study suggests.
The typical pillow contains more than a million fungal spores, researchers found. That’s several thousand spores for every little gram of material.
There’s more.
Other studies have shown pillows and other bedding harbor dust mites, microscopic spider-like creatures that feed on flakes of human skin
Try not to remember this story the next time you stay in a hotel or motel.
Thank God for the dust mites or we would all be living on mountains of dead skin flakes.