To think changing bedsheets once a week is ott

[Moomoomango]

Another week has whizzed past, feels like yesterday I changed all the beds. They look and smell fine, surely if I only change beds once every 2 weeks we will still all survive. I could spend 30 minutes with my feet up drinking tea once in a while. Aibu?

Kings, Guy's & St Thomas. Like I said, if you wanted them changed they would do it, otherwise it was once a week.

Yuck YWBU I have to change ours every week,honestly if I could I'd change them all twice a week but there's 7 of us so 6 beds and I'm ill and disabled.

If I wasn't ill and disabled I'd do it twice a week.

That's my trust, it's not standard policy. I am going to look in to this.

When I was in hospital having the kids I was asked daily if I wantes my bed changed but always declined (in two nights) - theyve enough to do without changing clean sheets for more clean sheets.

Roughly once a week, though they're a bit overdue at the minute. I'm 35 weeks pregnant and I cba

I've never worked on a children's ward where sheets were routinely changed everyday. If they're looking mucky or have fluids on them then yes but otherwise no.

I try to do ours at least every 2 weeks. I physically can't do it as often as I'd like - which would be once a week without fail.

I am in love with #naughtypantsdeer, i sometimes hoover beds with the sheets on, job done....

Always once a week here, and on a Monday because it reminds me of my Nanna. I hate myself for starting to iron sheets though, I never used to and then I started and now cannot go back because it is sooo much nicer.

I've never had sheets changed daily in hospital but I can see why they would be. It's completely different circumstances to the average house though.

Hospitals now change sheets every day. But the majority of patients in hospital are elderly and some continence issue is very common.

Our cleaner does ours once a week. The cleaner has switched days so DS is no longer home that afternoon to have "a rest" in Mummy and Daddy's bed and oh the joy at getting in clean sheets that nobody else has jumped about in, every single week.

Every two weeks. If I can be arsed. We are all healthy, no coughs, rarely colds never d and v nothing. I say its positively a benefit to be a skank.

Fucking hell loads of you must be terrified of sitting on your sofa, imagine how much sweat and skin and fart there is in that!

I can only find Derby trust policy online easily, it says no longer than three days for any patient. Immediate change for fluid spills etc, most beds have some sort of venflon incident. I am trying to find infection control studies as interested in how this has come about. Quite shocked that some are being left a week. Are people refusing the bed changes or are they not being offered?

I don't use a duvet, have two flat sheets, a thin quilt and a blanket. The flat sheet that goes over me goes on as the bottom sheet and I only wash that one plus pillowcases. The thin quilt is machine washed every couple of weeks with the blanket.

I'd use a duvet but they make me too hot. Even the lowest tog ones and they never feel heavy enough. I need a heavy blanket to settle well.

my washing pile from bedding is never huge. DC use duvets though but hates duvet covers so I end up washing the whole duvet every week. Its not as bad as it sounds.

We are weird with how we like our beds here!

Sheets etc are always ironed here, especially now 15 yo DD does the ironing. Ironed sheets is part of the clean sheet experience for me.

I change fortnightly one week mine next week DS's..IF we have been ill more likely to do them when better..More often in summer when can put them on line.. no drier so hung around the house drying...No very good for you either.

I do ours when I think they need it.

DS has nosebleeds quite often - so his need changing more.

Ours - I change when I think they start to smell like they need it.

In summer I might wash more frequently - no tumble drier here.

Every Monday without fail. Ours and the kids. I send them to a laundry and they come back beautifully pressed. I love Mondays.

Yanbu.

Sheets get changed here less than once a week. A few weeks less (at least).

Hospital beds aren't changed daily, I laid in my own blood unable to move until my DM changed them because no one else gave a crap!

Can I also say, it is bloody hard work if you are little and you have a big bed. My arms at full stretch aren't the same width as the duvet cover so I have to burrow in to the cover to get to the corners. I'm sweating at the end. So I change mine every 2 weeks. Shoot me

You and yours will survive OP

YABU, however, to only want 30 mins with your feet up and a cuppa once in a while

HTH

Is it just me that gets secretly pissed off when dh wants to have sex on the day I've put fresh covers on?! I want it to stay as pristine as possible

ICanSee that would piss me off too

I feel on fresh bedsheet day, you should be freshly bathed with washed hair

Once a week for me. I feel the beds a bit grubby after that.