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My Doctor Says I Am Allergic to Dust Mites

nyway? I heard dust mites can cause allergic reactions, how can it do that? Dust mites pose numerous questions and many people are completely oblivious to a dust mite's lifestyle.

Do Dust Mites Produce Waste? Of course. Like all living things that eat dust mites must defecate as well. They defecate everywhere they go, in your bed, couch, carpeting and more. Usually a dust mite defecates about 20 times a day! That is a lot of feces.

Eww Gross! Is All That Waste Harmful to Me? It is utterly gross to know that every night that warm comfy bed you lie down in is covered in feces and a combination of dead and alive dust mites. The feces of dust mites can actually trigger allergic reactions because the body might recognize a dust mite's feces as a foreign substance, and attack it. This reaction works like any other reaction such as peanuts, crayfish, or pollen. Allergic reactions are not caused by the dust mites themselves but the feces they produce.

Can you Tell me Exactly what is a Dust Mite? A dust mite an animal just like a spider, it perform all the same functions any other animal does such as breathing, eating, defecating, and reproducing. A dust mite's life span last about 60 days for a female and half of that for a male. Over the lifetime of a female dust mite it will lay about 100 eggs.

Why Are We Allergic to Dust Mite Feces and Not Our Own? It is actually a special protein found in the feces of a dust mite the triggers the allergic reactions. Because humans do not produce this protein we are not allergic to our own wastes.

What are Some of the Things Which May be Experienced Due to an Allergic Reaction? A dust mite allergy is analogous to any other allergy such as pollen and dust. Sneezing, itching, and watery eyes are common effects of a dust mite allergy. Dust mite allergies are like having the common cold all the time, which often aggravates those with it because they are unable to pinpoint the exact cause of the problem.

Exact what is the size of a Dust Mite? These microscopic creatures can create enormous problems for allergy and asthma sufferers. Relatively small compared to the problems they create, at a size of only half a millimeter.

With this article you are armed with information about what dust mites are, their habitat of choice, and their size. The data provided will hopefully helped you learn more about the millions of 8 legged creatures within your house.

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