Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
If your house is anything like mine, there’s a constant debate on whether we want the curtains open or closed. While I prefer not to live like a vampire, my husband, bless his heart, thinks dark rooms are cozy and relaxing. Finally, science has given me some ammunition to win the great curtain debate.
Not that I didn’t already know I was right, but, being married to a geologist, science goes a long way!
A new study out of the University of Oregon found that sunlight, even filtered through glass, kills a significant amount of the germs found in household dust. This means leaving your curtains open on a sunny day could improve air quality in your home, which leads to less chance for infections and respiratory disease to take old (this is a double bonus for those of us who have kids dragging every germ known to man home from school every day).
The findings were published in Microbiome and noted that rooms exposed to sunlight had around half the…
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