Dust mites like warm (25°C) temperatures, dark and humid (75%) conditions.
85% of people who suffer from asthma have an allergy to house dust mites.
You can be exposed to up to 2 million mites in your mattress and up to 500,000 can live
in a square metre of your carpet.
The average size of a house dust
mite is 0.3mm.
Approximately 3 dust mites can live
in the full stop at the end of this sentence.
The cause of
allergies is dust mite droppings, together with their hosts. An average mattress can be home to more than a million mites.
These microscopic creatures affect about 80% of allergies, so it is important to keep your sleeping area as clean
as possible. They trigger respiratory illnesses such as asthma and hay
fever and also skin diseases like eczema. Asthma alone affects around 1 in 8 Britons.
After 2 years 25% of the weight in your duvets and pillows is made
up with dead skin, dust mites and their droppings! Imagine what your mattress is like! How important is your families health
to you?
Dust mites like warm (25°C) temperatures, dark and humid (75%) conditions.