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Are your Allergies Caused by Dust Mites?
- You live in Palm Beach. Your child, mother or father, husband or wife seem to be sneezing more often than you feel is normal. What do you do? Could it be that you are living with several hundred of thousand barely visible dust mites?
Dust mites are tiny, common insects that eat dead skin flakes. Yikes…. It’s pretty creepy actually to think that you might have these little critters crawling on you and you wouldn’t know it. These tiny insects enjoy living with humans, who shed up to 700,000 skin flakes a day. They don’t harm humans in that they do not bite their human smorgasbords, but they do and can cause allergies to you and your family members. Because humans shed dead skin flakes, they tend to live in high concentrations amongst humans. One square yard of carpet in fact, can contain 100,000 of these tiny, microscopic creatures. So how do they cause an allergic reaction? Each of these creatures can product about 20 drops of feces each day, which is typically the source of the allergies.
Dust Mite Allergic Symptoms
- Researchers have found a strong link between dust mites and allergies. If an elderly person has shown to be allergic to dust mites, there is a very strong likeliness of the children to also be allergic to dust mites. For children with asthma, the allergic symptoms can even be greater. Your doctor can perform a skin or blood test to confirm an that you may be allergic to dust mites.
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