What is a House Dust Mite and how does it cause allergic reactions?

A House Dust Mite is blind and is approximately 300 microns in size. It thrives in warm humid conditions of 15°C to 35°C and although it leads a relatively short life, just three to four months, the female mite lays on average 150 eggs.

A House Dust Mite must feed on sloughed human skin cells in order for it to live and breed. In order to provide the necessary nutrition for a mite the skin cells have to be pre digested by the action of a fungus.

Mites do not bite however they do excrete faeces which measure up to 50 microns in diameter. This faeces dries out and breaks up into smaller pieces which then float in the air (to put this in to prospective a human hair is 40 to 120 microns in diameter). The bacteria found inside the gut of the mite is a known human allergen (Der p1) and this can be found in their faeces.

When a person inhales the tiny particles of airborne House Dust Mite faeces this can trigger Asthma, Rhinitis and Eczema. These illnesses have increased four fold in the last twenty years as central heating has become more popular.

 

What can you do to combat the House Dust Mite?

It is important for your skin cells to fall off and regenerate so you can not prevent this from happening during the night however if human skin cells are not pre digested by fungi, such as Aspergillus Repens, then they are too fatty, lacking in vitamin B and have a keratin content which is too high to provide a proper source of nutrition for House Dust Mites.

Anti allergy bedding prevents the growth of bacteria and fungi depriving the mites of their food source.

 

How does Fogarty Ultra Care bedding work?

The Fogarty Ultra Care anti allergy range uses a fabric with an anti fungal anti bacterial coating which prevents the growth of Aspergillus Repens and with out this fungus the House Dust Mite can not pre digest it’s meal of human skin cells. The starving mite will either die or leave the bed but most importantly it can not excrete with out the means to feed and therefore it can not produce allergens.

 

What is the Ultra Care fibre?

Fogarty Ultra Care range has a surface coating of an anti bacterial anti fungal material. The coating is not a poison, it does not kill House Dust Mites and is non toxic to humans in addition to which it has a proven track record in American hospitals over the last thirty plus years.

Fibres treated with the non toxic Ultra Care coating their freshness regardless of how often they are washed. The treatment will not leach out in to the air or in to water and is therefore not harmful to the person sleeping in the bed or to the environment.

The coating works by preventing the growth of bacteria on the surface of the treated item however it does not kill bacteria on the skin of a person using the bed which is important as some strains of bacteria are a necessary part of a healthy life.

Unpleasant odours and staining are caused by some bacteria and fungi however the Ultra Care treatment is anti bacterial and anti fungal therefore combating nasty niffs.

 

What reassurance do I have that the Fogarty Ultra Care anti allergy bedding range is safe?

Fogarty has rigorously tested it’s Ultra Care range and has achieved accreditation from both the European Environment Agency “Oeko-Tex” and the independent charity Allergy Uk who’s Seal Of Approval symbol is displayed on the Fogarty Ultra Care packaging.