Could The Air In Your Home Be Poisoning You?

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The House Dust Mites are miniscule creatures (one eightieth of an inch long) related to ticks and spiders. These nasties are turtle like creatures with eight legs and are too small to be seen with the naked eye. They feed on the decaying dead skin flakes in house dust – skin that we lose everyday just walking around. There is virtually no house in the USA or Europe without them.

The interesting thing is the incidence can vary enormously between houses in the same road, some containing huge numbers and others almost none. The Mites survival depends, not on the amount of dust, but very much on the amount of humidity in the house. They must have high humidity just to keep living.

In these perfect conditions, these Mites are able to survive for up to 3-4 months. With females laying as many as 25 to 50 eggs, with a new crop” produced every three weeks!

Funnily, it is not the Mite itself that is the problem. It is their droppings that are the problem. They need help (a chemical method) to break down the shed skin before it can be digested. This is the problem (or rather what happens when the digestion is completed). The chemical along with the waste skin passes into the droppings.

Remember that the mite is so microscopic and its droppings will be many times smaller yet. One mite will produce perhaps 20 or so droppings every day. Any of these droppings holds approximately 10-12 smaller sub pellets that are about 2-10 micron in size and contain their left over enzymes. Once disturbed, by a gust of wind or someone walking through a room, these droppings become airborne. They are so light that they can stay up in the air for hours.

Unfortunately, this is right where your nose is gathering it s air from.As we breathe in the air, we also inhale the mite droppings. Unfortunately, these come complete with those powerful protein enzymes that digest our skin. The trouble is that these enzymes cannot differentiate between live or dead skin.

So they go to work on the linings of your nose and bronchial tubes (in other words what you breathe through).

Over time this goes on unabated until you become sensitised”. By this time the linings have become swollen and reduced in size. You are about to have an attack. These can be set off by various things… pollen, pollution, car fumes, paint, VOCs (volatile organic compounds). This is when the body reacts to it and starts off an allergic reaction. How can we prevent this?

Two things help. Ventilation and good vacuum cleaner filtration. Increase the ventilation of the house and make sure the bag is replaced regularly

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