How Often Should A Mattress Be Changed?
A good mattress will give your body the support and comfort required for the proper posture of your spine, and ease your body’s pressure points.
11/01/2018
A good night’s sleep is critical. It will enhance your productivity and overall health. This is why in a day, an adult should sleep for 7 to 9 hours. Since this translates into a third of your life, it is high time you established what might be compromising your sleep. Your quality of sleep is affected by your mattress. A good mattress will give your body the support and comfort required for the proper posture of your spine, and ease your body’s pressure points. The result? You will feel well-rested and ready for the day with a bonus of no lower back pain, no stiff neck among other aches.
However, if your mattress is not providing you with these, it is a telltale clue that you should change it forthwith. Whereas it is recommended that you change your mattress after 7 to 10 years of its usage, the manner in which you care for the mattress will determine whether it will serve you longer or shorter than this given period. For instance, if you use a mattress protector right from the start, then you are likely to enjoy sleeping on the mattress beyond the 10-year ceiling. The mattress protector shields the mattress from liquid spills, mold, mildew, parasites (like bed bugs) and dirt which harm the materials that form the mattress.
Other signs for need of mattress change include the following:
1. The Inevitable Wear And Tear Of The Mattress
If your mattress has depressions where you usually lie, is lumpy, saggy, or its springs can be felt, then it is worn out enough already.
2. Feeling Bodily Pains, Aches, Stiffness Or Soreness Whenever You Wake up
When your mattress is too soft, your body will sink in it leading to pain following wrong sleeping posture. If the mattress is too hard, it will increase pressure on your body parts and also cause pain since your spine will not be properly aligned.
3. Getting Quality Sleep Away From Your Mattress
This indicates that your mattress is not letting you sleep.
4. Having A Sleepyhead During The Day Because Of Tossing And Turning In Your Sleep Beyond The Normal Counts
Naturally, bodily movements while sleeping offer relief from prolonged pressure on body parts, thereby enhancing blood circulation. Adults move around 75 times in their sleep. A good mattress will facilitate less movements. However, with a bad mattress, the movements escalate into sleeplessness.
5. Demands From Changes In Your Body Or Life
Over time, you might have added weight or lost it all together; developed health issues like arthritis or rheumatism; or even gotten married. Consequently, the mattress you have been sleeping on, will not offer the support or comfort you enjoyed before these changes became part of your life.
In summary, it is not worth spending a third of your life in discomfort and pain because your muscles struggle overnight trying to secure a comfortable sleeping posture. If you invest rightly in your sleep health (read, mattress), then you will increase your chances of productively impacting the remaining two-thirds of your life.