07/11/2007
How clean is your mattress?
The average mattress contains more than 10,000 dust mites and over 2 million dust mite droppings!
Dust mites are tiny microscopic mites virtually invisible to the human eye and thrive in the warm, humid conditions found in beds and in upholstered furniture, carpets and soft furnishings.
Dust mites feed off dead microscopic human and pet skin cells
It is not the mite itself that causes problems but their faecal droppings, which contain an allergen known as DerP1.
The droppings are 4-20 microns in size, but they can crumble into fragments of 1-3 microns, with the tiniest fragments just 0.5 micros across. During their three month life span each dust mite lays 20-40 eggs and produces up to 2000 droppings.
With up to 1,000 individual mites in just one gram of dust , this means that just the average mattress contains more than 10,000 dust mites and perhaps in excess of two million droppings.
Dust mite allergy can develop at any age. The most common symptoms resulting from house dust mite allergy are nasal symptoms, including sneezing, wheezing, dry persistent cough, tightness of breath and asthma, runny nose, rhinitis hay fever, as well as sinusitis, with related headaches and ear blockages.
Eczema and Dermatitis are also frequently caused by house dust mites and some people sensitive to dust mites can also experience joint pain, swelling of tissues, and muscle aches.
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28/03/2007
Sound machine that will zap dust mites.
Scientists have found a novel way of eliminating dust mites that are responsible for trigger allergies in millions of people.
Daily Mail Tuesday 27th March 2007.
They have developed a tiny device that emits ultrasound waves into a room, causing the microscopic creatures to die.
The breakthrough was discovered by a team developing a way to tackle malaria-spreading mosquitoes. Using ultrasound on the mosquitoes was only partially effective, but researchers who suffered from dust allergies started to report an improvement in their symptoms while testing the equipment.
Irish company Drontek then switched its research to finding out if the high-level sound waves were killing the dust mites.
People with conditions such as hay fever and asthma are extremely susceptible to dust mites, which feed on shed human skin and are most prolific in the bedroom. The mites' faeces, which contain the allergen, are breathed in causing shortness of breath and wheezing in allergy sufferers.
When they were exposed to ultrasound, mite numbers fell by several hundred thousand – about 20 per cent – in less than a month. After six months they reduced by 60 per cent.
‘We don't think the ultrasound is killing them but we think that the sound waves are putting them off their food, which has a knock-on-effect on their sex lives, meaning that fewer are born,' says John Power, of Drontek.
'In most bedrooms there are many millions of dust mites, so if you can get the colony down to just a few thousand that can have an enormous impact on patients with conditions such as asthma.'
Around one in three of the population is affected by allergies at some point – many directly attributed to the dust mite.
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