• If you often wake up with congestion, a runny nose, watery eyes, itching, or sneezing, then you are probably allergic to dust mites.
• Your bed is the perfect environment for dust mites; they love to burrow into fabric and feast on your dead skin cells. Humans shed one to three pounds of skin a year, plenty of food for millions of dust mites.
• Depending on its age, your mattress may house between one million and ten million dust mites.
• During its 80-day lifespan, the average dust mite produces about 1,000 allergen waste particles.
• A gram (about a half teaspoon) of dust contains as many as 1,000 dust mites and 250,000 allergenic dust mite fecal pellets.
• The weight of the average mattress doubles after ten years due to dust mite infestation, and the weight of the average pillow increases 10% after one year.
• Dust mite populations peak during the hot, humid months of July and August.

3 ways to STOP them:

• Vacuum your mattress and pillow regularly, specifically using HEPA filtration
• Lower the humidity level in your bedroom below 50%
• Steam clean your mattress at least once a year to remove up to 99% of dust mite population