Dust mites are an invisible organism due to its minute size, but can have adverse side effects on one's health. Dust mites are extremely fertile and numerous.  They do not bite nor do they transmit diseases, but they wreak havoc on people who suffer from allergies or have breathing difficulties.

They prosper in warm, humid and dark environments.  They feed on the human and animal skin particles we and our pets shed on a daily basis.  They can lay up to 300 eggs in their brief 80-day lifetime and leave up to 200 times their entire weight in droppings.

Dust mites live primarily in bed mattresses, pillows and carpets.  The bed mattress is an ideal environment for mites, as it is warm, humid and provides an abundance of the mites favorite food: human skin scales.  The average bed can be infested with millions of mites.  We spend approximately eight hours per day in bed, leading to close and prolonged contact with harmful fecal pellets of the house dust mite.

Continual exposure to the house dust mite in beds and bedding is a mojor cause of allergy misery for millions of sufferers.

Dust mites, or more precisely their feces and skeletal remains are a large contributor to ashma, eczema and allergic rhinitis.  Some common sypmptoms of these conditions are as follows:
breathing difficulties, couphing, wheezing, chest tightness, itchy skin, red rash, small, raised blisters, sneezing, runny or stuffy nose, itchy, watery eyes.

Medical professionals agree that the best way to avoid the symptoms of dust mite allergies and bed bugs is to create a non-invasive barrier between them and you.

Protective mattress, box spring, duvet and pillow encasings are essential in containing the bed bugs, mites and their harmful allergens.  They also cut off mites' food supply as the human skin scales cannot penetrate the encasings.