Information on home dust mites
What are dust mites?
Mites are microscopic organisms and belong to the arachid family. They are bugs that do not look with the naked eye. Their size is 0.3 mm and they feed on the deboned cells of human skin. In one gram of dust there are about 2,500-5,000. The life of the mites is small, however they are reproduced very quickly. Female mites produce about 30 eggs every three weeks.
The humid and warm climate of the home offers ideal conditions for the reproduction and survival of the particular bugs.
Where they live?
On all fabric surfaces. They prefer mainly hot, wet parts such as the inside of a mattress. Beds are their favorite habitat. They are even in the cleaner bedroom, but also in carpets, carpets, curtains, mattresses, pillows, sofas and even the most meticulous person in cleanliness can not find them!
A double layer accommodates between 2 and 10 million mites. The older the layer is, the greater the concentration of mites and their harmful substances. Just think that within 1 month your new layer will have collected about 5,000 of them and over 1 million more than 1,500,000. In the mattress they live, eat, eliminate their feces, reproduce and droop.
From an adult, about 500 grams of dead skin each year fall during sleep. This is good enough for mites to love your mattress, since it is a huge source of food for them (fed by the dead skin cells of man)! Pets produce much more food for dust mites.
Feces of mites cause allergies
But it's not the mites, that's all that creates the serious problem. Mites eject their feces 20-30 times a day. Their excrement contains a hormone called guanine. Guanine is the one that causes allergic symptoms. The lumps of their feces are so light that they can easily penetrate the nose and mouth through breathing.
Blankets - Quilts
Researchers from the University of Wusters in Britain analyzed ten ordinary blankets and discovered that they contained over 20,000 mites of house dust, along with bacteria and fungi seeds. «Do not use acaricide products and do not trust your carpets and blankets to those who advertise the use of these products, because they usually contain chemicals that we do not know about long-term effects, and can burden the breathing, especially asthmatics » the most effective acaricides are air currents and solar radiation, as they did in earlier times that made pillows, bed sheets and blankets in the sun and of course the right wash in special lish washers and a temperature of 55-60 degrees Celsius (mites begin to die after 35 degrees Celsius) that purchased our company specifically for this purpose. So you can often ventilate the house every day and certainly early in the morning & raquo ;. The blankets should be washed every six months. Sheets, pillows and duvet covers should be washed once a week in 55-60°C water (the mites begin to die after 35 degrees Celsius). REPLACE: Every five years.
