Mattress-Organic

The average person loses about 1/3 ounce or 10 grams of dead skins cells, commonly called dander, each week.   These dead skin cells collect in great multitudes in our homes – our furniture, carpets and especially in the place where we spend most of our time – our mattresses.  Kinda gross huh?

Dust mites are quiet, microscopic arachnids (the class of arthropods which includes spiders, scorpions and ticks) that infest our mattresses, furniture and carpets and feed on dead skin.  They live in the dark, forgotten corners of our homes - hatching, growing, eating, defecating, mating and laying more eggs.  Although dust mites are harmless to most people as they are not know to carry diseases, they do cause allergic reactions in asthmatics and to those who are allergic to their feces.  Just lie down on a carpet infested with dust mites and you might get a bit of an itch with red irritation.  Or try looking under your bed and breathing in some dust – you may be wheezing and experiencing some difficulty breathing.  According to the American College of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, approximately 10 percent of Americans exhibit allergic sensitivity to dust mites.

They infest beds and carpets by the tens of millions, and there can be as many as 1,000 mites in one gram of dust.  A typical mattress can contain tens of thousands of dust mites and a single dust mite produces about 20 waste droppings each day, each containing a protein to which many people are allergic.  The proteins in that combination of feces and shed skin are what cause allergic reactions in humans. Depending on the person and exposure, reactions can range from itchy eyes to asthma attacks. And finally, unlike the class of arthropods which includes spiders, scorpions and ticksother types of mites, house dust mites are not parasites, since they only eat dead tissue. Gross, but true.

There are no fool proof ways of eliminating dust mites, but there are ways of controlling them.  The good news is that organic wool in organic mattresses are a naturally repels dust mites.  Each strand of organic wool has a coating of lanolin which is a natural deterent to dust mights.  Furthermore, microscopic scales on each strand of wool create an arid environment that dust mites can’t live in.

Find relief from asthama and alergy symptoms.  Choose an organic mattress.