A lot of “dust” in your house is not dust at all, it’s discarded skin. Bucket loads of the stuff.
The house dust mite, in it’s own little way, does us a favour by eagerly devouring it.
Basically…
…Your skin is like a great big
juicy steak for dust mites…
You see discarded skin and pet dander is like a big juicy steak to them. They can’t get enough and there’s plenty to keep them (and their thousands of mates) gorging themselves.
But there’s a hidden, deadly problem with this…
If you keep stuffing food in at one end, then sooner or later, something is going to come out of the other end. And that is where your problems really begin.
It’s all to do with how the dust mite digests it’s food… YOU!
picture of a dust mite that can be eradicated through proper cleaningYou know that we have strong acid in our stomachs to break down and digest our food, yes?
Well dust mites have their own special enzymes that break down human skin.
Dead OR alive skin, the enzymes don’t care. They just keep devouring it.
This is digested and eventually got rid of in their droppings. That’s when the trouble starts or rather, that’s when YOUR trouble starts)…
So, how does this play havoc with your breathing?
Well, Dust Mites are tiny, microscopic creatures (invisible to the naked eye), whose droppings are many times smaller (and lighter) still.
So small, that once disturbed (by someone walking across the carpet, sitting on the furniture or moving in bed), they can stay floating about for hours. Guess where?
Yes, right up in the very air that you are breathing in! Which means…
every time you take a breath…
you are gulping down millions of
tiny, flesh eating particles!
Right up and through into your nose, your breathing tubes and even your lungs. It’s almost like sniffing up millions of miniscule, flesh eating piranha fish!
Those flesh eating enzymes go
to work on the insides of your nose,
your tubes and your lungs.
This is the start of what is known as sensitisation. From then on it’s down the slippery slope.