Dust Mites Control
If you find that staying indoors, particularly inside your house, often results in you sneezing and wheezing, coughing, getting itchy either in parts of your body or all over; chances are you have house dust mites!
A large percentage of asthma attacks, skin diseases like eczema, hay fever and many other allergic reactions are caused by these bothersome dust mites. As a matter of fact, about fifty to eighty percent of these conditions are caused by dust mites!
Dust mites control is therefore in order.
What are Dust Mites?
Dust mites are small creatures, about 420 micrometers in length and 245 micrometers in width that live off on fallen dead skin cells of humans. These shed dead skin can be found all over the house, which means that the mites are also spread out all over your entire house.
Since they are so small, you cannot readily see them which means that even as you sit quietly on your favorite chair or lounge on the bed, they could already be crawling all over the place.
The average lifespan of a female dust mite is sixty days, with the latter half being spent laying eggs. Male dust mites on the other hand can live only up to thirty days.
Dust Mites Control Measures
First off, a person can shed off large amounts of dead skin per year, enough to feed more than a million dust mites! This is why it is highly important that you address this problem right away especially if you have a baby in the house since a baby exposed to dust mites can develop an allergy that they may have to deal with for the rest of their lives.
What actually causes the allergies are not the mites themselves but their fecal matter which could be lying around on your mattress, couch, pillow, furniture and every other item in your house.
There are however, steps that you can undertake to control dust mite infestation in your home. First of all, make sure that you change and wash your bedroom linens at least once a week. This will immediately discourage dust mite invasion.
Secondly, lower down the moisture level in your home; this will dramatically decrease their reproduction level.
Regularly clean your house, including vacuuming your carpets and draperies; and use a clean, damp rug to wipe off dust from your furniture and brick-a-bracks. You may also want to consider using covers on your furniture, mattresses and pillows that are resistant to dust mites.
The key is to minimize dust build-up in your home and regularly washing and cleaning everything that you touch and use.
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