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DUST MITE ALLERGY CONTROL DEVICES

Advertisements and the literature for air purifiers claim their devices control or reduce dust mites up to 99% of the time but this may be misleading according to one of the world's leading dust mite experts.

Microscopic dust mites do not typically travel in the air so an air purifier may do little, if anything, to control dust mite fecal matter on the ground which is what causes allergies in the first place!

The claim in the ads may be accurate if dust mites travelled mostly by air but they do not! To really control dust mites you may want to try more conventional ways of control like covering bed clothes with linens that cannot easily be penetrated.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: NBC-TV DATELINE 12/15/97

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