Fighting Dust Mites with Allergy Relief

Dusts mites are in every ones house no matter how clean or dirty you keep your home. Dust mites cause allergies for many people. The mites can make it hard for you to breathe.

Did you know that dust mites are consider the most common cause of asthma and allergies symptoms worldwide?

Dust or house mites are members of the spider family. They are little bugs that make you think that you have dust, but they really are little bugs that live and lay eggs. They can live up to 10 weeks; the last 5 weeks they lay eggs up to 60 to a 150 a day. They can live in your carpets, bedding, vacuum bags, and your furniture.

How do I know if I am allergic to house or dust mites?
Allergies have many different symptoms so it is hard to say for sure. When you first start getting allergies you think it might your basic cold so you take every thing that you would as if you had a cold. You may even go to the doctors to get some medicine because what you were doing won’t take care of it. Well guess what the medicine the doctor gives you do not take care of it either. Now you are thinking what else it could be. So you return to your family doctor they set you up with an allergist. You get test run and find out that you have allergies to dust mites.

How do I get relief from dust mites?
There is not much you can do for dust mites. Dust mites appear all around your home, yet you cannot see them.  You can be the cleanest person and there still might be dust mites in your home. They are so small they can hide anywhere. They can be up in the corners somewhere that you would think of. They love the vacuum bags. To get what relief you get, you might want to use a heap vacuum bag; this vacuum bag has a filter system in it so it will keep in the dust mites.

When you are vacuum, your floors normally the dust mites are thrown around your house in the air. This heap will help to keep them in the bags making it hard for them to get out, it will also help to keep your air in the house clean.

You do not want to try bleach or other strong clean household items. It will not kill the mites. The only other thing you might want to try would be to freeze them out, or to wipe down everything with a towel in warm water, 60 degrees or hotter this will kill them on contact.

Once you have figured out a way to keep your home free of dust mites you will be able to breath and be free of allergies. You also got to remember that it may not only be dust mites that you are allergic to, it could be almost anything so if you try this and it don’t work you may want to go to your local doctor and maybe he can give you something to help to relive your symptoms.

Keep in mind that cleaning the home is not going to get rid of dust mites. Dust mites in household often make up the group of Dermatophagoides farinae and the group of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus. In order for these groups of arachnids to survive, they need safe environments, humid areas and food.

Dust mites typically fed on furniture stuffing, pet hair and shredded skin cells from humans.