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The Enemy |
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 The Problem
How many times have you or a family
member awakened from a night’s sleep with itchy skin or red and irritated eyes?
Do you suffer from a stuffed up nose,
excessive sneezing, wheezing or tight chest, painful head, sinus ache, a general
feeling of fatigue or even depression, all for no particular reason?
If so, you or your family member
could be suffering from some kind of allergy, you could be sleeping with the ENEMY!
Read about how this enemy can be a health risk
to you.
So, who
is this enemy?
House dust mites!
They are everywhere,
and their favourite breeding ground is your mattress. So, millions
of dust mites have made a home for themselves in your mattress
- that’s right,
millions of microscopic dust mites that have
been proven to trigger
a whole host of allergic reactions like asthma, bronchitis, eczema and more.
House dust mite profile
- As small as 300 microns/0.3mm in size,
so it is not visible to the naked eye.
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Live in ideal conditions of 25 degress Celcius and 75% relative humidity, which is similar to
Malaysian indoor conditions.
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Can be found in pillows, quilts, mattresses, carpets, upholstered furniture, clothes,
stuffed toys, bed covers and other fabric covered items.
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Feed on shed skin
flakes, predigested by the fungus Aspergillus repens, and moisture
from human breathing, sweat and saliva. When we sleep, the bed is warm and humid and is also an ideal environment for the fungus to turn the skin flakes on the bed
into nutritious food for the dust mites.
- It is excrement of dust mites
that causes allergic reactions, not the dust mite itself. It can cause adverse effects
on people who are allergic to the protein contained in the excrement.
Interesting facts
- We shed 10, 000 million scales
of bacteria laden skin each day, most end up in our mattresses.
- Dust mites produce 200 times
its body weight in excrement during their normal life span.
- Dust mites feast for up to 170
days on our shed skin.
- Dust mites spread rapidly. A
female dust mite lays 300 eggs.
- They can live without food for
up to a year.
The older the mattress is, the worse
the contamination. And it doesn't matter how often you change the sheets or even
if you've tried vacuuming the mattress yourself, there could be millions of dust
mites along with other harmful bacteria and contaminants deeply embedded. Fortunately,
there is solution to this problem.
Read more:
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