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Eight legs, sucking pads on the end of the feet, blind, drinks through its armpits, eats human skin flakes, wraps its faeces in pellets that many humans are allergic to and mates in the warm moist place called our home.



Worst of all, it loves your bed. This is not a Hollywood film but the humble, minute Dust Mite. It might only be 420 micrometers long but this beast is a trigger for asthma, allergies and eczema.



As the weather warms and the air becomes more humid the Dust Mite gets horny. They love the warm, moist conditions within British homes; the warmer and moister weather that comes with spring and summer makes the Dust Mite increases their reproduction rates. Dust Mites make rabbits look sedate; there is the distinct possibility that there could be as many as 1.5 million Dust Mites, the majority of them alive, living in your bed right now.



What's more they like nothing better than eating flakes of human skin.



Although you cannot see Dust Mites (you could count almost 19,000 of them in a gram of dust), they are a significant trigger of asthma, eczema and other modern day allergies. It is not the Dust Mite itself, which does the damage, it is their poo. It is Dust Mite droppings that carry the allergen that triggers the sneezing and breathing problems, once you have breathed it in that is. Those 1.5 million Dust Mites in your bed are producing up to 20 pellets of droppings every day, each.



With more and more of us suffering from these diseases combating this menace becomes more and more important. One in ten children and one in twelve adults suffer from asthma (source www.asthma.org.uk) while everyone either knows or is related to someone who suffers from an allergy or eczema.



The best that we can do is to control the Dust Mite, a new website at www.meaco.com/dustmites.htm aims to provide the British householder with five key steps that they can take in the battle against the Dust Mite.



Company Director Chris Michael of Meaco (U.K.) Limited, a sufferer himself, who has put together the information says "We are being asked by more and more people these days for advise on what can be done to reduce the moist conditions in people homes to allivetiate people's asthma and allergies. The number one step for us is to stop these Dust Mites from reproducing to keep the problem manageable"



So to create a healthier environment in the home and to slow down the Dust Mites libido visit www.meaco.com/dustmites.htm



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About Meaco (U.K.) Limited


Meaco are a small family run company who for the past 17 years have been providing environmental control solutions to museums across the UK. They are one of the largest suppliers of dehumidifiers in the UK via their website www.meaco.com.