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Best Humidity Levels for Sleeping
Good quality sleep is essential for your overall health and well-being. The key to getting the best night’s rest possible is making sure the humidity and temperature of your bedroom are optimal.
Read on to find out what humidity is, how it affects your sleep, and what you can do to ensure you get the right humidity level for your bedroom environment.
Humidity and Sleep
Humidity is the level of moisture that’s present in the air around you. It affects the quality of your sleep as well as your sense of well-being and overall health.
Sleep is how your body recharges and repairs itself. If the humidity levels in your bedroom are not right, it can affect your rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep cycles.
NREM cycles are important for your immune health, muscles, bones, and tissue. REM cycles help consolidate your memory or how your brain stores and retains information. That’s why it’s so important that your bedroom humidity level is as ideal as it can be.
Is My Bedroom Too Humid or Too Dry?
How you feel when you sleep and wake up can tell you if your bedroom is too humid or too dry. Here are some of the symptoms to look out for.
Symptoms of sleeping in a dry room
Your bedroom may not be humid enough if you have difficulty breathing when you’re asleep or you wake up with dry nasal passages and a dry throat.
Other warning signs include:
If you have a condition like asthma and sleep apnea, it can be made worse by sleeping in a room with low humidity levels.
Signs of High Humidity
The humidity in your bedroom may be too high if you wake up frequently because you feel sweaty and uncomfortable.
Other signs to watch out for include:
Skin irritations like heat rashes.
If you have asthma or are an allergy sufferer, sleeping in a humid bedroom may make your symptoms worse.
That’s because mould and dust mites thrive in areas with high amount of moisture levels.
What Is the Ideal Humidity for Bedrooms?
The ideal bedroom humidity in the UK is between 30% and 60%.
If you want to check to see whether your bedroom has the best humidity for sleep, you could buy a hygrometer.
Hygrometers are affordable and very easy to use. You can also use them to check for general humidity levels in your home.
Ideal Humidity for Babies
For babies, the best humidity level for sleep is between 40% and 60%. The ideal humidity for babies is higher because they have narrower nasal passages.
As they grow older, the ideal humidity for their bedrooms moves to between 30% and 50%, much closer to that of adults.
How to Regulate Room Humidity
No matter whether the humidity in your bedroom is too high or low, airing your house each morning will help. To bring down humidity levels in your bedroom, try the following:
Getting humidity just right is difficult.
Below, find out expert tips on how to control room humidity in your bedroom and around your home.
Air your home daily
On hot and sticky days, it will get rid of excess moisture. On colder days, it prevents the build-up of dampness and brings in a blast of fresh air.
Remember to open your windows for a short period each day, and keep a door to the outside open to allow air circulation.
Reducing bedroom humidity without a humidifier
What you need
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Improve Sleep Quality with Air Purification
Even if you don’t have a problem with bedroom humidity, sleeping in a room with cleaner air will really improve the quality of your rest.
One of the major benefits of a humidifier while sleeping is that there’ll be far fewer irritants in your bedroom that will disrupt your shuteye time.
A great humidifier for sleeping is the 2-in-1 Air Purifier and Humidifier Series 3000i.
As well as sensing and displaying air quality and humidity, it has an ultra-quiet sleep mode operation. Better still, it’s very easy to use through the smart Philips Air+ app.
Tips for Better Sleep
For a better sleep, experts recommend you keep your bedroom:
Temperature is an important factor too.
The optimum temperature for sleeping is 16-18°C. That might sound cold but remember that your body temperature drops in the evening as it prepares for sleep.
If your bedroom is 12°C or colder, you’ll likely find it difficult to get to sleep. If your bedroom is over 24°C you’ll probably be too restless to sleep well.
Now you know the best temperature for sleep and the best level of humidity, you can look forward to more restful shut-eye time.
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Source(s):
1 The Sleep Charity: Sleep environment
2 Oxford CC: Preventing damp and mould
3 NCBI: Planting Healthier Indoor Air
