If you start to suffer from allergies, dust mite allergy is one of the more common diagnoses you are likely to be given before you leave the doctor's office.
In 1967, dust mites of the species Dermatophagoides were discovered to be a major source of indoor allergies. (An allergen is any substance that causes an allergy or allergic reaction.).
Dust mites are extremely small members of the Arachnid class and Acari subclass, and as such they are similar to spiders and "cousins" to lice and ticks. People with dust mite allergy are allergic to both the organism and its feces.
Dust Mite Allergy Symptoms
If you have allergy symptoms around house dust, other possible sources of allergy can include cockroaches, domestic animals, mouse and rat dropping, and molds. One can even probably find significant levels of pollen in house dust during allergy season. This is why it is important for you to have skin testing done by an allergist to help pinpoint your allergies, even though no allergy medication exists for dust mites.
This way, when you go to the inconvenience and expense of environmental avoidance, you can avoid the specific things to which you have allergies. People give away the family cat and then found out it was a dust mite allergy that was making their child sick, or others who have gone through rigorous dust mite control measures only to find out they weren't allergic to dust mites at all.
Dust mites tend not to be airborne, primarily because they are too heavy but also because there is no food (i.e. dead skin) in the air (unless you have very bad dandruff or flaky body skin. So, we find high concentrations of dust mites in bedding, in clothes, in upholstered furniture, and, to a lesser extent, in carpeting. Jumping up and down on the bed or extensive cleaning may for a short time send the the dust mite adrift in the house (giving those with a dust mite allergy a good excuse to go to the beach while someone without dust mite allergy is vacuuming and/or some other anti-dust mite activity).
Dust mites like to live where there is abundant food, moisture, and warmth. For dust mites, this often means our bed. Our bed is the ideal spot for dust mites in some of the same ways as it is for us: we like to sleep there because it's cozy and toasty! But also, we as humans tend to lose most of our skin in the bed. And that's good news for our hungry dust mite bed companions.
But dust mites proliferate anywhere there is warmth and humidity, not just your bed. That is why when you open up your shore house in May (assuming you are lucky enough to own one), you may experience some violent sneezing and wheezing. The place has been sealed for 6 months with little or no circulation. As a result, any moisture present when the house was closed up for the winter has been trapped, producing favorable conditions for dust mites, as well for molds.
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If you start to suffer from allergies, dust mite allergy is one of the more common diagnoses you are likely to be given before you leave the doctor's office.
