Worried About Having a Bad Duct Cleaning Experience?Home Dust Mite and Allergy Information
Dust Mites and Allergies in the Jacksonville Areas of FL
Many people do not fully understand how dust mites could be living in their air ducts, carpet, and bed, or the way they complicate allergies. Dust mites are small enough that you need a microscope to see them, but they are all around your house living in the dust. Even if you keep your home very clean, skin, hair, food, and fecal matter are still present in your ducts for the mites to feed on. Dermatophagoides farinae is the latin name for house dust mites, which is abbreviated HDM. Dust mites can cause serious respiratory problems, particularly asthma. The 6 legged dust mite larva turn into 8 legged adult dust mites. Male dust mites have a 19-30 day lifespan. Conversely, females live for up to two months, laying eggs for the last 30 days.
You do not have to worry about being bitten by dust mites. Dust mites eat the dust from discarded human skin cells. People lose from 0.5 to 1 lbs. Of dead skin each year, and the dust mites thrive on that in a big family. The moisture from you sleeping, sweating, and breathing on your sheets and bedding, make your bed an ideal place for dust mites to live. The big problem with dust mites is that they are a huge source of allergens and can cause rhinitis, conjunctivitis, dermatitis, and asthma. Dust mite droppings cause allergies because of an enzyme in them, DerP1.
Dust mites prefer humidity, and because of that not many live in your air duct system. Air ducts do carry a lot of skin, and other dust particles though. Dirt built up in these systems is then circulated around the house by the fans. By just re-circulating air, these vent systems deposit new food for the mites and fling their allergy causing fecal matter into the air where you breath it.
Dust mites can be warded against by taking the following precautions:
- Invest in a good HEPA filtered vacuum for cleaning your carpets and other places where dust collects.
- Clean most other surfaces regularly.
- Have you carpets, drapes, upholstery, and air ducts professionally cleaned, at least twice a year.
- Not only would replacing your carpets with vinyl flooring help reduce dust mites, it also makes cleaning easier.
- Switch to buying allergen proof bedding products.
- To get the mites out of children's tays without chemicals you can freeze them.
- The mites cannot thrive if humidity is under 70% in your home.
Although there is no be-all-end-all dust mite solution, the above tips will make a big difference.
Well, that wraps-up our dust mites article. Hopefully you have a better grasp of what the operation involves and what you might search for in an duct cleaning company. Since most ductwork cleaning companies also clean dryer vents, you might want to read our dryer vent cleaning tips article as well. Having your dryer vent cleaned while the technicians are still at your home cleaning your air ducts, will save you money.
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