How Many Dust Mites Are In Your Home?

Dust Mites Contribute To A Poor Night’s Sleep and Allergens

One common cause of poor indoor air quality is allergens produced by dust mites. Indoor air pollution can cause annoying allergy symptoms, or worse, for people with asthma. Read on to learn more about dust mites, the symptoms dust mite allergens cause, and how to reduce the number of dust mites in your home.

About Dust Mites

Dust mites are microscopic pests attracted to human dander, a substance found on carpets, upholstery, and other surfaces throughout homes, but especially on mattresses, where humans sleep seven or more hours on average every night. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 100,000 dust mites can be found in just one square yard of carpet, and a mattress that gets typical use may contain 100,000 to 10 million of them.

Symptoms Caused by Dust Mite Allergens

Allergy symptoms triggered by airborne dust mite fecal pellets range from sneezing and runny or congested nasal passages to cough, darkness under the eyes, and other symptoms. For people with asthma, symptoms are more severe, including wheezing and difficulty breathing.

How to Reduce the Number of Dust Mites

The only way to completely rid your home of dust mites is to move out. In other words, dust mites are very likely to be present in an inhabited home, but there are steps you can take to reduce their numbers. Let’s begin with bedding, the place these tiny, bug-like creatures prefer most.

Bedding Suggestions For A Good Night’s Sleep

Avoid down pillows and wool blankets, opting for cotton or synthetic materials instead. Wash your bed linens once per week. Use mite-resistant covers on pillows and mattresses if you have kids who love to sleep with stuffed animals, and purchase washable toys. Also, make sure to have your mattresses professionally cleaned by Tru-Clean Surface Care annually and treated with an allergen-free repellent against dust mites.

Dehumidify Your Home

Dust mites thrive in humid environments. Make sure humid areas such as bathrooms and kitchens are adequately ventilated. If necessary, run a dehumidifier to control indoor moisture.

Vacuuming May Not Be Enough

Vacuuming your mattress, carpeting, upholstery, and other textiles has traditionally been the go-to method for removing dust mites and the dander that serves as a food supply for them; however, a study by Woolcock Institute of Medical Research concluded that vacuuming inconsistently or incompletely will only serve to redistribute dust mites.

Suggestions for improving the results of vacuuming include using a vacuum with:

  • rotating brushes in the head
  • proper suction
  • fully functional seals and gaskets
  • HEPA (high efficiency particulate air filter) filtration
  • By all means, vacuum often and vacuum thoroughly, but be aware that vacuuming may not be enough.

We Provide Deep Cleaning Services

Professional carpet and textile cleaning equipment and solutions used by Tru-Clean Surface Care can remove dust mites, pollen, and pet dander that reside deep in your carpeting, mattresses, or upholstery. Our highly trained and skilled technicians are very methodical and thorough, deep-cleaning from the folds and crevices in mattresses and upholstery to the corners and baseboards of carpeting for a fresh, clean, healthy living environment. Let us help you give bugs, pollen, and allergens the boot.

Tru-Clean Surface Care is SW Florida’s most referred carpet, tile, and upholstery cleaning company.  Our cleaning solutions are allergen-free and designed to help combat allergens, dust mites, and pollen.  We are a Certified Partner with the prestigious Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC), the international Carpet & Rug Institute (CRI), and a WoolSafe Approved Service Provider.

Tru-Clean Surface Care is A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and an eight-year-in-a-row winner of the coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award.

For more information about Tru-Clean Surface Care and our thoroughly exhaustive carpet, upholstery, mattress, and allergen treatment services, please visit us online at:

Tru-Clean Website:   https://trucleansurfacecare.com/

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Call us: Lee County, 239-541-4888 – Collier County, 239-206-1935 – Charlotte County, or 941-621-2198.

Tru-Clean Surface Care services all of Lee, Collier, and Charlotte County.

 

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