Dust Mites
What is lurking in your carpets, upholstery, pillows, mattresses and drapes? Dust mites, that's what!
- Did you know that in the average home there are over two million dust mites feeding on dead skin scales and that dust mites can double their numbers in ten hours, and produce ten to twenty feces per day?
- In the average home that would mean one hundred thousand dead bodies and thirty million pieces of feces added to your home every day.
- Microscopic mite feces and corpses are small enough to be airborne and get into the lungs.
- Eighty percent of the eleven million Americans who suffer from allergies are allergic to airborne mite refuse.
- Most common areas to find dust mites are where your skin contacts a surface, like pillows, recliners, sofas, beds and the carpets surrounding them.
Regular vacuuming of these areas and periodic deep cleaning will control dust mites.
