House dust mites and allergy :

House dust mites and allergy :

The mattress plays a leading role in the allergy to house dust mites:

• The temperature of a bedroom is generally too low to provide good living conditions for house dust mites. The mattress is consequently their favorite home. Indeed, every night, the mattress provides the warmth of a body, that the dust mites look for. It is not rare that a temperature of 28°C is conserved throughout the day inside your mattress.

• Like the temperature, the humidity within the mattress is fairly constant and this also attracts house dust mites

• The mattress is also where you lose the most your dead skin cells (shedding), bringing the necessary food for dust mites to live on. 

• It is generally in the deepest part of your mattress that the house dust mite proliferates with two main consequences: its excrements and its corpse which decompose in really thin particles (usually a few microns). These particles are very allergenic.

• The mattress acts then, like a bellows every time you go to sleep and ejects millions of allergenic microparticles into the air.

• These microparticles spread not only to the rest of the bedding but also onto fitted carpets, curtains and unenclosed clothing where they wait for a movement or a jerk (as in walking, etc) to go back to the air and for the allergic patient to breathe them in.

• Enclosing the mattress in a anti-dust mite cover breaks this cycle of dust mites' infestation and isolates the sleeper from his/her allergens.