WEBVTT - Does airing out mattresses outside do any good?

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<v Speaker 1>Stuff from house stuff works dot com. Where smart happens

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<v Speaker 1>him Marshall Brain with today's question, Does it do any good?

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<v Speaker 1>Air out rugs and mattresses outside? There's at least one

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<v Speaker 1>big advantage that the air outside the house has over

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<v Speaker 1>the air inside the house. On a sunny day, the

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<v Speaker 1>air outside the house comes with a good dose of

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<v Speaker 1>ultra violet radiation from the sun. While ultra violet rays

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<v Speaker 1>are not great for your skin, it turns out that

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<v Speaker 1>they are very good disinfectants. They kill bacteria. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you haul a rug to a sunny spot on the

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<v Speaker 1>driveways so that it gets several hours of strong sunlight,

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<v Speaker 1>you're using the sun to disinfect it with something big,

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<v Speaker 1>like a mattress or an area rug. It's one of

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<v Speaker 1>the few inexpensive ways to kill bacteria. You can't exactly

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<v Speaker 1>throw a mattress in the washer. It turns out that

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<v Speaker 1>ultra violet light. It's used as a disinfectant in a

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<v Speaker 1>number of different products. For example, you can buy swimming

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<v Speaker 1>pool filter systems that disinfect the water in the pool

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<v Speaker 1>by running it past a strong UV light. Some municipalities

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<v Speaker 1>do the same thing to augment the chlorine that treats

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<v Speaker 1>drinking water. You can even buy a device that uses

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<v Speaker 1>UV light to disinfect your toothbrush. In Third World countries,

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<v Speaker 1>there have been experiments using clear plastic soda bottles filled

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<v Speaker 1>with contaminated drinking water. People leave the bottles in the

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<v Speaker 1>sun and it actually helps to reduce bacteria in their water.

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<v Speaker 1>So putting your rug or mattress out in the sun

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<v Speaker 1>for a couple of hours won't hurt and it might

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<v Speaker 1>help get rid of some of the Do you have

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