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You may think that you keep your home impeccably clean. But there will always be some potential trigger for allergies lurking in carpets and pillows or floating invisibly in the air. There are several different types of house dust mites. The most wide spread is in the southern hemisphere. Whatever type they are, all mites look much the same. With its hard scaly shell and menacing pincers, the house dust mites' looks truly awesome when magnified. In reality, it is tinier than a pinhead and around two million can live comfortably in one mattress. About ten percent of the weight of an average pillow is made up of shed skin and house dust mites. These creatures also live in carpets and soft furnishings such as curtains and sofas. They burrow into soft toys and cling to clothes, particularly those made of wool. They thrive on humidity and fare particularly well in centrally heated, double glazed homes, sealed against the wind and cold. They must have warmth, temperatures around 18 degrees Celsius are ideal. They cannot survive when it is too cold or too hot. Each mite lives for about 10 weeks and an adult can lay 50 to 80 eggs in that time. They feed on the skin scales that are shed from the body at a rate of 1 gram a day. They are aptly names as skin and eat in Greek. It is not the mite itself that causes irritation to the airways but its droppings, or rather a protein that coats the droppings. The droppings are light, and they remain floating in the air. You whip them up into invisible clouds whenever you walk over the carpets. We inhale the clouds and this causes the trouble.
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