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PRO Carpet Cleaning Launceston
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![]() We spend about a third of our life on a mattress, more than any other piece of furniture, and every year we shed four kilograms of dead skin cells.
We also share our bed with things that live off those dead skin cells, excrement twice their body weight every day, and the females lay 60 to 100 eggs. Do we really need to ask this next question? Why Should We Clean Our Mattresses?Mainly because of dust mites. These creepy little critters live by their millions on the dead skin you discard, and your mattress is one of their happy little breeding grounds. Dust mites can live for up to 100 days, and can lay 60 to 100 eggs.
Now, before you vow to never sleep again, dust mites do not live off live cells. They don’t bite you, nor do they sting or burrow into your bodies. But they do excrete … a lot, and it is those feces that might cause some health problems. Dust mites are so light, as are the feces the extrude, that when something disturbs the surfaces the are on, they can become air borne for up to two hours before returning and settling back to the surface. It is during this time that they can easily be inhaled. Approximately 10% of people might have some allergic sensitivity to the feces of dust mites, and they are a major cause of asthma and allergies, particularly in those that are considered vulnerable to breathing illness, like the young and the elderly. |
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