Symptoms of house dust mite allergies are:
  • Wheezing or tight chest
  • Red or watery eyes
  • Coughing, especially at night
  • Blocked nose
  • Sneezing or sinus symptoms
  • Eczema
  • Itchy skin
Dust mite allergy facts:
  • Dust mites like warm 25 degrees, dark and humid (75%) conditions.
  • 85% of people with asthma have an allergy to the house dust mite.
  • You can be exposed to up to 2 million mites in your mattress and up to 500,000 mites can live in a square metre of your carpet.
  • The average size of house mites is 0.3mm.

About 3 mites could fit inside the dot at the end of this sentence.

The cause of the allergies is dust mite droppings, together with their hosts. An average mattress can be home to more than a million dust mites.

These microscopic creatures affect around 80 percent of people with allergies, so is important to keep your home and sleeping environment as clean as possible. Mites can trigger respiratory illnesses such as asthma, hay fever and skin conditions such as eczema. Asthma alone affects around 1 in 8 Britons.

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