Are you allergic to dustmites?

badabing106

Fun facts about dustmites

10 % of the weight of your pillow consists of Dustmites, dead dustimites and dustmites faces

There are 100-500 mites in a typical gram of dust and up to 100,000 in a square meter of carpet.

Their favorite place is your mattress. There are about two million mites crawling around a typical mattress

The allergic reaction happens when you inhale the dustmites fecal matter

Coopaloop

Ok....now I need to go burn my bed. Thanks for that!

Leg End Reject

There goes sleeping for a while.

Where can I buy a new mattress and pillows during the lockdown?

SEPT 23 1989

what doesn't kill us makes us stronger

Stark

Yeah I'm allergic to them, or more specifically their feces. Have to wash everything regularly at 60 degrees plus. That kills the little bastard and also denatures their droppings so immune system no longer recognises them. Also you can get anti-dustmite mattress and pillow protectors that help massively.

branie2

Nope

mr_fegelien

I used to be until i moved into a house without carpets. Also got an anti-dust mite pillow cover.

I still vaccum my room regularly but also have antihistamines at hand

jimbobaloobob

Yep allergic to them. Get awful hives and eyes like I’ve been smoking my brains out.

cnocbui

I regularly put my pillow in the drier on high for 15 minutes and cook them.

Dr. Bre

When you are going to the toilet a spider is watching you. Fun facts

krissovo

My daughter has a severe reaction to dust mites, make our lives really challenging. We had a good stock or medical masks before the virus just to protect her which are now coming in handy.

Wood floors and tiles all over the house, we have to dust daily even under beds. After we dust which is usually when she is at school we have to air the house fully. In lockdown we mask her up and send her outside. We have installed a heat recovery ventilation system which is amazing for her as the home constantly circulates fresh air. Any home with a carpet she cannot visit which is unfortunately most her friends, even some family members we cannot visit unless she is in a medical mask.

Holidays can be an issue, we find most hotels will tell you whatever you want to hear so will say they they are tiled or woodfloors but most have carpet.

Shakey_jake

I usually have a breakout if i try on a piece of clothing that hasn't been worn and has been laying in the closet for a few months

Usually involves sneezing hives and itching, im presuming its dust mites

4068ac1elhodqr

I just give them a regular quick 5-10sec wave of the UV-C (254 nm) wand, that results in zero viability of their eggs ever hatching, followed by the Dyson-esq vacuum in-between.
Farewell Dusties, godspeed.

cnocbui

krissovo wrote: »

My daughter has a severe reaction to dust mites, make our lives really challenging. We had a good stock or medical masks before the virus just to protect her which are now coming in handy.
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I have mostly given up gluten. As a result, my susceptibility to alergens has reduced by about 80%. When I lapse and have pizza, the dust mite allergy spikes very noticeably within hours.

LeYouth

Shakey_jake wrote: »

I usually have a breakout if i try on a piece of clothing that hasn't been worn and has been laying in the closet for a few months

Usually involves sneezing hives and itching, im presuming its dust mites

This. Hate the things.

Kylta

Dr. Bre wrote: »

When you are going to the toilet a spider is watching you. Fun facts

If a spider is watching its ok, if he can smell then I really feel sorry for the little fu¢ker. Even I can't stand the smell

Kylta

Am curious OP are you allergic to silverfish/insects etc.

uch

What if the poor Dust mites were god fearing and went to mass every Sunday, would you still be so belligerent towards these poor fellows

Pauliedragon

badabing106 wrote: »

Fun facts about dustmites

10 % of the weight of your pillow consists of Dustmites, dead dustimites and dustmites faces

There are 100-500 mites in a typical gram of dust and up to 100,000 in a square meter of carpet.

Their favorite place is your mattress. There are about two million mites crawling around a typical mattress

The allergic reaction happens when you inhale the dustmites fecal matter

Is that why I wake up with a horn every morning? Little ****ers in my bed "massaging" me in my sleep.