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THE PROBLEM
The mattress is the dirtiest piece of furniture in our homes, yet we spend on average a third of our lives in it.
While sleeping the average adult sheds about 2 pounds of skin per year.
We will perspire 260 litres of fluid in the same period.
Skin cells provide a constant supply of food to dust mites
Humidity plus a constant room temperature makes the mattress an ideal environment for dust mites.
Dust mites have a high reproductive rate, egg laying female mites increase the population by 25 to 30 every three weeks. A mattress that is only 6 months old will still contain sufficient amount of mites to affect allergy sufferers.
Up to a million can be found in an older double mattress.
With every move in the bed dust mite excrement is churned up. Mattresses act like bellows blowing the dirt into the mouth, nose, and eyes and onto the skin
Lead researcher Dr Stephen Pretlove, a building scientist at
They can trigger asthma and have also been linked to eczema and a condition called perennial rhinitis, described as being a type of 'year round hayfever'.
"House dust mites feed on scales of human skin so they love to share our beds," said Dr Pretlove. "The allergens they produce are easily inhaled during sleep and are a major cause of illnesses.
"We know that mites can only survive by taking in water from the atmosphere using glands on the outside of their body.
In fact it is much more critical to clean your mattress, pillows or duvet than your carpets because if you were to view them under a microscope you would see they are crawling with dust mites. These tiny creatures that live on off our dead skin cells produce large amounts of droppings that rot and become airborne, finding their way onto our skin and into the mouth, eyes and nose. This has the effect of aggravating breathing disorders such as asthma and bronchitis, eczema on the skin and conjunctivitis in the eyes.
Allergies have risen four-fold in the
"The general belief that vacuuming and dusting is enough is unfounded. Most cleaning activity is effectively little more than pushing the dust from one area of the room to another.
"Many people fall into the trap of thinking that superb facilities are all that guests require, but in fact they want more. Cleanliness is part of the experience of staying at a hotel or serviced apartment and managers forget that at their peril."
Moulds
Found inside homes, moulds produce allergen-bearing spores. They are found near ventilation or air conditioning ducts, around water pipes (bathrooms), on green plants, on plant and animal wastes, in the dust of mattresses and stuffed animals.
THE SOLUTION
A dry system designed in
"Cleanliness is part and parcel of the experience of staying at a hotel or serviced apartment and managers forget that at their peril."
Dr Michael Foggs, chief of allergy and immunology at Advocate Health Centres, agrees this is the way to go: "Hilton hotels should be commended for having the insight and foresight to provide rooms with enhanced air quality – it's an environmental refinement whose time has come."
A reduction in the allergens you will be breathing in at night
A clean bed without potentially health threatening and allergy causing bacteria and dust mites
Protection for your beds and bedding against dust mites and other things that can cause allergic reactions for up to a year
A healthier night's sleep every night
FREE Allergy testing of your bed and bedding
