Dustmite

lateasever · 06-05-2005 1:36pm #1

right now they are crawling and excreting all over your body. everywhere. your clothes, your face, you breathe them in, they eat bits of your skin. how scary is that????????????

DrIndy · 06-05-2005 1:40pm

Ah sure, you have millions upon millions of bacteria in your gut, without which you would not get vitamins and would be open to infection.

We live in an ecosystem, of which we are a part, unless it does you damage don't fret!

BTW - Dustmite faeces can be a trigger for asthma

irlirishkev · 06-05-2005 1:48pm

I'm allergic to Dustmite poo. It's not too bad, I don't break out in a rash or anything, but if I'm in an anyway dusty environment I'll break into a sneezing fit and will have to leave.. that gets a bit annoying.

modular · 06-05-2005 4:15pm

irlirishkev wrote:

I'm allergic to Dustmite poo. It's not too bad, I don't break out in a rash or anything, but if I'm in an anyway dusty environment I'll break into a sneezing fit and will have to leave.. that gets a bit annoying.

I remember in 5th or 6th class, going on the bus to a school tour, someone was allergic to dust, and the guy sitting next to him kept walloping the seat to throw up more dust. Jeez...

irlirishkev · 06-05-2005 4:27pm

modular wrote:

I remember in 5th or 6th class, going on the bus to a school tour, someone was allergic to dust, and the guy sitting next to him kept walloping the seat to throw up more dust. Jeez...

Ah wasn't school great :rolleyes:

netwhizkid · 06-05-2005 5:54pm

ah dustmites, my old friends, they tried several times to kill me indirectly ie. with their excrement, I'm asthmatic. I'd say the only thing that pumps out more $hit that them is Bertie Ahern. Solution, Timber floors :- linoleum is useless and get a good vacaum cleaner.

Regards netwhizkid

DrIndy · 06-05-2005 6:20pm

timber floors are the way to go - they're warm on the feet too unlike lino...

smoke · 06-05-2005 6:42pm

I'm another one. I've got that sneezing reaction to there poo too. Not that bad since I hit my teens but before that it used to be terrible in any room with a carpet!

AdMMM · 06-05-2005 6:44pm

That picture is actually scary. It looks ****ing evil!

DrIndy · 06-05-2005 7:11pm

yeah, but they are so small that you need a powerful microscope to even see them. those images were taken with an electron microscope.

BTW - do you know they feed on squames? Squames are flakes of skin that you shed continually - hence you can never truly remove them as they are living off dead bits of yourself........

Its quite cute really - you can see tha big mammy with some babies attached....

Dustmite

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