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Are You Sleeping With The Enemy?

Are You Sleeping With The Enemy? House Dust Mite Seen Through a Microscope The house dust mites are (cosmopolitan:if it’s range extends across all or most of the world) or (pyroglyphidae: is a family of mites) that live in human habitation. Dust mites are tiny microscopic creatures not visible to the human eye. Dust mites feed on detritus such as shed flakes of human dead skin. Dust mites’ feces contain potent digestive enzymes found in the mite’s gut and is one of the major inducers of allergic reactions such as wheezing. On average a dust mite can live in a house approximately 10 to 19 days, a mated female dust mite however can last up to 70 days, and through her life span cycle can lay 60 to 100 eggs in the last five weeks of her life. A house dust mite can produce approximately 2,000 fecal particles and even a larger amount of partially digested enzyme-covered dust particles which can cause allergic reactions in many people world wide. House dust mites can survive in a