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Does it do any good to air out rugs and mattresses outside?

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Does it do any good to air out rugs and mattresses outside?

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There is at least one big advantage that the air outside the house has over the air inside the house: On a sunny day, the air outside the house comes with a good dose of ultraviolet radiation from the sun . While ultraviolet rays are not so great for your skin, it turns out that they are good disinfectants — they kill bacteria. So if you haul a rug to a sunny spot on the driveway so that it gets several hours of strong sunlight, you are using the sun to disinfect it. With something big like a mattress or an area rug, it’s one of the few inexpensive ways to kill bacteria — you can’t exactly throw a mattress in the washer ! It turns out that ultraviolet light gets used as a disinfectant in a number of different products. For example, you can buy swimming pool systems that disinfect the water in the pool by running it past a strong UV light. Some municipalities do the same thing to augment the chlorine that treats drinking water. You can even buy a device that uses UV light to disinfect

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