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Dust mites allergy is the most common asthma inducer in the world, especially in big cities where many modern architecture houses use double glazing windows, loft and wall insulation techniques, which at the end affect the houses ventilation.
What’s the relation between ventilation and dust mites allergy ?
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Dust mites love to stay in the warm and humid air. Bad ventilation in modern houses enable dust mites to grow comfortably in the house. Carpet, bed sheet, bed cover, pillows, blankets, couches, furniture, curtain, and toys that kids like to hold such as teddy bear, are the favorite surfaces in your house where dust mites usually stay.
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As dust mites are a very small microscopic creature (around 0,1-0,3mm), and cannot be seen by bare eye, we intend to underestimate it. This small fellow is very light, that it can stay in the air for a long time. When you are sneezing while cleaning up the house, that means you just got dust mites allergy by inhaling the dust mites through your nose.
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Actually dust mites allergy caused by the particles of dust mites’ feces. When the particles come to your airways, you will get asthma symptoms, and if it has contact with your skin, it will cause eczema.
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Dust mites eat human’s dandruff which are mostly spread out on our bed sheet.
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Dust mites can migrate easily from one place to another. For example, when you sit at a sofa that is contaminated with dust mites, the dust mites might stick on your clothes. Then, when you move to other chair, the dust mites will migrate also to the new place.
How To Prevent Dust Mites Allergy
To prevent dust mites allergy, you have to keep the whole house always clean, not only the bedroom of the dust mites allergy patient!. These are tips you can use to control dust mites allergy:
Bedroom
As we spend most of our time
in bed (we sleep normally 8 hours = 30% of our life everyday), manage
your bedroom by doing these...
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Minimize the furniture in the bedroom, place only some that you really require. Clean them everyday with wet cloth or vacuum cleaner. Don’t forget every narrow spaces behind cupboard, sofa, under the bed, etc.
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Avoid bed with canopy, as the dust mites will keep falling down right on you!
Here are some alternatives of allergy bedding products for asthma patient.
Carpet
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It is recommended for dust mites allergy patient to have a bedroom without carpet. You can replace it with linoleum or wooden floor. But if you still prefer carpet, use a synthetic carpet
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Don’t forget to vacuum-clean the carpet frequently using high efficient vacuum cleaner
Kids toys
Kids toys that are made from soft fabrics such as teddy bears are what you might alert to.
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Minimize that kind of toys in the house.
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Ask your children to choose only one that he/she likes the most, and can play with it all the time.
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This favorite toy must be cleaned up frequently using minimum 60C boiled water.
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If your children want to keep it in the bedroom, put it in a sealed plastic box.
Fabrics
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Put out everything that is fabrics covered from your bedroom, or at least keep it in a sealed plastic box.
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Use vertical blind rather than curtain.
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Choose couch that use leather cover (original or imitation), rather than fabrics cover.
Taking care of dust mites allergy is quite complicated and time consuming, however don’t you want to help people that you care and love ? Let’s help them to have a normal life by providing a healthy environment in your house.
These are several resources that might help you....
Dust Mites Center - find everything you want to know about dust mites here!
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