Yet, for all the trauma it can cause, bed rest has never been shown in good clinical studies to achieve its desired goals.
It is getting money from the European Union for a nose to identify the bacteria that cause bed sores in hospital patients.
The adoption of wheat straw as a fuel for gasification processes has been hindered due to a lack of experience and its propensity to cause bed agglomeration in fluidised bed gasifiers.
Many readily available aerosol pesticide sprays will cause bed bugs to scatter making eradication more difficult.
There are biological abnormalities that can cause BED like a defective hyphothalamus, the part of the brain that manages appetite.
Drinking lots of water before sleep may cause bed-wetting in children and people with bladder problems.
Thus, lowering boarding times unblocks a significant number of beds in an environment where crowding is primarily caused by bed availability.
Until recently, however, few if any obstetricians or the bedridden mothers themselves were concerned about counteracting the physical declines caused by bed rest.
Unable to sleep after the workmen arrived at 7 15 every morning, wielding pneumatic drills that caused his bed to vibrate, Mr. Wright said, he became too exhausted to continue hosting his late-night BBC radio show and had to quit.
