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Article: Dust mites: something to sneeze at.
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- September 1, 1991
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If you think your modern, insulated house is a safe haven from all allergenic alarms, think again. That average, six-room, well-insulated house in a city or the suburbs accumulates on the average 40 pounds of dust a year. And that dust is home to millions of unseen but troublesome critters called dust mites.
"People aren't allergic to dust mites themselves," explains Rose Cardinal, director of program services at the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America in Washington, D.C. "The problem is from inhaling the protein from the fecal pellets of the mites."
The waste particles (each mite produces about 20 a day) which Cardinal refers to not only are the ...