Your bedroom could be the unhealthiest room in your home

Mialcas/Shutterstock.com Close the door, shut the windows and turn up the heating, and you have all the ingredients for a sick bedroom in your home – and you spend about eight hours in there every night. Kitchens and bathrooms usually take the blame for stale air and damp. But researchers spent a winter monitoring airtight, naturally ventilated homes across Scotland. In more than four out of five homes the carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the air remained above the level considered a safe threshold for…