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What are the dangers of dust mites? Can a dust mite cause me harm in anyway? 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 Create Feces? Just like another animal that consumes food, dust mites defecate daily. Dust mites create feces wherever they go, on your mattress, couch, carpet, etc. In addition dust mites average twenty feces a day.

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.

What is the classification of a Dust Mite? A dust mite is part of the spider family and has eight legs. A dust mite breathes, defecates, feeds, and reproduces like any other animal. Although tiny in size, a female dust mite can create up to 100 eggs within her two-month lifespan, however a male dust mite will only live for one month.

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 Symptoms of an Allergic Reaction? Just like pollen, dust mite feces cause itchiness, watery eyes, sneezing and more. It is like consistently having the common cold, which becomes very irritating to many because they are unable to diagnose or understand the problem that is actually all around them.

What is the exact size of a Dust Mite? Dusts mites are small in comparison to the problems they bring to allergy and asthma sufferers. Not observable to the human eye, a dust mites size is no bigger than half a millimeter.

Roaming around your house at this very moment are millions of frightening 8 legged creatures, but hopefully with the information provided the subject of dust mites is not as eerie or cloudy as it once was.