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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by tecoyah
Get new pillows....I replace mine every couple months......because:
The development of the house dust mite from an egg to an adult takes just three to four weeks. Adults live for about six weeks, during which time the females each produce forty to eighty eggs.
It is not the mites themselves, though, that cause the problems - the allergen which causes asthma attacks and other problems is actually a protein found in their droppings.
A mite will produce 20 faecal pellets per day - that is 200 times its own body weight in faeces during it's short lifetime. With millions of mites living in one bed, this means there are vast amounts of droppings there. 20% of a pillow's weight can be made up of house dust mites and their droppings. These levels mean that virtually all mite-sensitive people will experience problems as a direct result of the mites and their droppings in mattresses, pillows and duvets.
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damn... now you're going to creep out Xazy.
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