Dustmite Allergy (bedding) Dustmites found in the home are minute, virtually transparent (approximately 0.3mm long!), and invisible to the naked eye... Out of sight out of mind? Not when there could be over two million of them living and breeding in every mattress in your house. Dustmites can be found in just about every home, thriving on the plentiful dust, built up in your carpets, bedding, fabrics and furniture. These mites consume a diet of human skin - dust. Each human being sheds an astonishing gram of skin a day, meaning the average family household produces over 1.5kg a year - equivalent to one and a half bags of sugar. Dustmites love nothing more than to dine on this old, discarded skin. They also supplement this diet with fungi, bacteria and yeasts that grow on it. Mites are particularly problematic for asthmatics. Dust mite faeces are airborne and a major source of respiratory conditions in the home

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