Are You Sleeping With The Enemy?

Mattress cleaning and allergen removal really started in Europe about 15 years ago. Why clean mattresses? There is a growing amount of scientific data that reveals better environmental hygiene improves health. The Environmental Protection Agency has consistently ranked indoor air pollution among the top five environmental risks to public health, and according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, “50 percent of all illnesses are caused by or aggravated by polluted indoor air.”

So, who is the enemy? How many times have you or a family member awakened from a night’s sleep with itchy skin or red and irritated eyes? Or how about a stuffed up nose, a barrage of sneezes, wheezing or tight chest, painful head or
sinus ache, a general feeling of fatigue, or even depression, all for no particular
reason?

Well, the fact is that you or a member of your family could be one of the 50 million Americans that suffer from some kind of allergy. The odds are the culprit may well be the millions of dust mites that have made a home for themselves in your mattress and are feeding on the skin flakes we shed every night. That’s right Millions of microscopic dust mites that have been medically proven to trigger a whole host of allergic reactions, like asthma, bronchitis, eczema and more.

It doesn’t matter how new a mattress is, how often you change the sheets, mattress cover, or even if you take the time to vacuum it once in a while, it is pretty difficult to eliminate these deeply embedded foes. It takes a professional cleaning and application of dust mite-neutralizing product to control the mite allergens between regular cleanings.

Those ominous things in the picture on the right are the real trouble makers. These little creatures, not visible to the naked eye, and in fact, they're so small that as many as 1000 of them could be placed on the head of a pin. And guess where their favorite breeding spot is? Yes, that's right. . . the mattress. Their ideal home!

Why the mattress? Because it's warm, often moist, cozy, easy to burrow into and full of their favorite food...skin flakes, the skin flakes every human being sheds every day and night of his or her life, no matter what their age, sex or state of health.

And you can't vacuum them away.


FACTS:

• We shed 10,000 million scales of bacteria laden skin each day, most end up in our mattresses.
• Dust mites produce 200 times it’s body weight in excrement during their normal life span..
• Dust mites feast for up to 170 days on our shed skin.
• Dust mites spread rapidly. A female dust mite lays 300 eggs.
• They can live without food for up to a year.

For allergy sufferers, applying a mitacide or pesticide to their mattresses is not recommended. These materials are poisons and could cause discomfort to allergy patients, as their skin and face would be in close proximity to these materials.

Recent estimates indicate that more than 21% of the homes in Europe have mattress cleaning services performed on a regular basis. No wonder the Europeans consume just a fraction of the allergy and cold medications that Americans are quick to take.

We Americans spend approximately one-third of our lives in bed, moving around frequently. As a result, even the slightest movement causes these harmful microscopic enemies to become airborne for hours, living in the air that we breathe. It’s time to fight back and eliminate the mattress as a health risk.

Just What the Doctor Ordered!

Dust mites produce guanine, a combination of mite droppings and saliva, and all the latest medical evidence points to this as the dominant cause of most allergies and other widespread maladies such as asthma, eczema, hay fever, bronchitis, inflammation of the mucous membranes, itchy red eyes, headaches, sinus problems and more. Common sense tells us that if we can eliminate the cause, we can eliminate the symptoms. And, if there are any children in the house, medical evidence points to the fact that exposure to these dust mites in the first year of life may very well trigger a lifelong allergy.

The Mattress Cleaning process we provide is a non-evasive and totally safe way to keep your dust mite population under control. It’s affordable, it’s simple, and it promotes a healthy way of life. Now is the time to quit treating the symptoms and treat the problem.