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problem is not only in your carpets. Upholstery and mattresses
also provide the ideal breeding ground for dust mites, which
can cause allergic reactions, particularly in small children
and asthmatic. You
shed up to 10,000 million scales of dead skin tissue each
day. Much of this goes into the bed and takes bacteria with
it. To this you add ¼ pints of body moisture each
night during ordinary sleep. All this leads to ideal conditions
for the dust mite. There are an estimated 42,000 dust mites
per ounce of mattress dust in the average double bed.
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