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Article: NUTS AND BOLTS; HOUSEHOLD DUST IS A FACT OF LIFE

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April 24, 2003
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There's a passage in the Bible that says we're all dust and to dust we will return. What you might not realize is that a little bit of us returns to dust every day.

When you find dust around your home, a lot of it came straight from you in the form of skin cells that are constantly flaking off and falling to the ground.

So as long as you and your family choose to live indoors, there's going to be at least some dust to clean up.

Dust is mixture of ingredients

Wright State University professor and researcher Larry Arlian is an internationally recognized expert on dust mites, the tiny, allergy- producing creatures that live and breed in household dust. And Dr. Arlian knows quite a bit about ...

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