mites

Where are Dust Mites?

In Your Mattress and Pillows

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Your mattress and pillows are home to between two million and ten million dust mites. Every dust mite produces 200 times its weight in feces. Ten percent of the weight of a two-year-old pillow can be composed of dead mites and their droppings.

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Just thinking of these dust mites living in your pillow by the millions, eating your dead skin is enough to make you sick (literally and figuratively).

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The American Lung Association

Dust Mite Feces cause asthma and allergies

 

According to the American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, approximately 10 percent of Americans exhibit allergic sensitivity to dust mites fecal matter.

 

The American Lung Association tells us "Dust mite feces are a major cause of asthma and allergies; especially in vulnerable individuals, such as children and the elderly. Dust mites are not parasites; they don't bite, sting, or burrow into our bodies. The harmful allergen they create comes from their fecal pellets and body fragments. Dust mites are nearly everywhere; roughly four out of five homes in the United States have detectable levels of dust mite allergen in at least one bed."

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Placing a Purello on your nightstand, combined with a regular mattress cleaning schedule using a Ritello, will keep dust mites out of your bedding.

 

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