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Description: Some helpful hints in ridding your house of dust mites. Information from the AAFP.
Asthma | Dust Mites in the Home -- FamilyDoctor.org     Text  > Dust Mites Read More About Asthma Prevention Dust mites are tiny bugs that live in your home. They measure about 1/100th of an inch in length, which is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. Dust mites feed off of pet and human dander (dead skin cells in the air and on surfaces in our homes), and their waste is a major cause of allergies and asthma. Symptoms of dust mites allergy include sneezing, runny nose, itchy nose and nasal congestion. If you have asthma, dust mites can cause you to wheeze more and need more asthma medicine. You may have more asthma symptoms at night, when you are laying in a bed infested with dust mites. Cutting down the number of dust mites in the home is an important step if you or someone in your family has allergies or asthma.
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