Symptoms and Solutions

Symptoms of house dust mite allergies are:

• Wheezing or tight chest
• Red or watery eyes
• Hay fever
• Coughing, especially at night
• Blocked nose
• Sneezing or
sinus symptoms
• Eczema
• Itchy skin

Dust mite allergy facts:

• Dust mites like warm 25 degrees, dark and humid (75%) conditions.
• 85% of people with asthma have an allergy to the house dust mite.
• You can be exposed to up to 2 million mites in your mattress and up to 500,000 mites can live in a square metre of your carpet.
• The average size of house mites is 0.3mm.

About 3 mites could fit inside the dot at the end of this sentence.

The cause of the allergies is dust mite droppings, together with their hosts. An average mattress can be home to more than a million dust mites.

These microscopic creatures affect around 80 percent of allergies, so is important to keep your sleeping environment as clean as possible. They can trigger respiratory illnesses such as asthma and hay fever and also skin diseases like eczema. Asthma alone affects around 1 in 8 Britons.