No matter how clean your home is you will be sharing your bed with millions of dust mites greedily feeding on your dead skin. The mattress is without doubt the dirtiest item we come in close contact with for 1/3rd of our lives. Even protective bedding has little effect on reducing allergic reactions when they are the only measure taken. The dust mite produces 200 times its body weight in excrement during the course of its lifetime. This excrement at first adheres to the fibres in the fabric as small mucous coated balls. Later it decomposes to a fine powder like dust. This mite excrement contains guanine, which can cause an allergic reaction and serious health issues in humans. There can be up to a million dust mites in one double mattress. Dust mite droppings contain powerful enzymes, which when breathed in breaks down the protective lining of our lungs, nasal passages and eyes. Australian research has revealed that 80% of people with asthma are allergic to the house dust mite. Allergy to dust mites is the 6th most serious sickness in the world (World Health Organisation, 1995)
25% of all allergies are due to dust mites.
