I've had these encasings for years and they really work. Bets part about it, made in America. They also don't make noise when you move unlike cheap encasings.
Dust mite allergy is the same as shellfish allergy. They both produce the same enzyme. Cutting out all shellfish has helped me tremendously. Also, cutting out fish that eat shellfish/krill and not using krill oil has helped.
Dust mites have evolved to live on/in human skin, I know bc i found them on microscope in hardened calloused skin around my fingers jams and toes I also believe I have scabies or bird mites as well they are red in color but look like freckles or darker skin spots.. doctors don’t help At all I’m losing my mind at this point
I was recently diagnosed with dust mite allergy. My doctor gave me your information and also suggested an air purifier but I see you are not pro air purifiers for mites. Thinking she did so more for other allergies such as pollen and pet dander Any thoughts ?
You are correct. Air cleaners produce the most benefit for allergens that stay in the air for long periods of time, namely pet allergens and pollens. Most mite allergen exposure is from direct contact with bedding, clothing, carpets, upholstered furniture, etc. Mite allergens become airborne when these materials are disturbed, but the allergens fall from the air relatively quickly, and are thus not available for removal by air purifiers. An air purifier can't hurt, but it is low on the list of priorities for mite allergy.
Only if the bedding is in contact with some other item that is harboring mites. Sheets by themselves on a hard shelf would probably not be a problem. Washed blankets stacked on top of other blankets would become infested. It is best to keep washed bedding separate, in closed plastic containers.
Then use cold or warm water. It will not get out all of the mites, but it will get out most of them. You can also put the items in the clothes dryer first (i.e. dry) for 10 minutes, which will kill the mites; then wash the item in cold water.
Yes. One small bit of newer knowledge is that warm water washing is sufficient in top loading washing machines (where the blanket is submerged in water for longer periods of time, allowing the mites to die by drowning) but hot water should be used in the newer, front loading "high efficiency" washing machines, where the items are repeatedly sprayed but not allowed to soak for long. Most high efficiency machines have a direct temperature control, so there is no need to raise the temperature of the hot water throughout the house. Separate from allergen-avoidance, another change is a newer treatment alternative to allergy injections, namely "sublingual immunotherapy".
@@jeffreymillermd Thank you for your reply. I'm currently doing allergy injections (specific immunotherapy) for the second time, I started half a year ago. I have not considered sublingual immunotherapy, but I will talk to my doctor about it.
I've bought a new mattress, used anti dust mite bed sheet covers, tried antihistamines (allegra, claritin, reactine), used neils med sinus rinse, used nasal sprays (fluorine, avamys, 3 others) made my room the right humidity and temperature, washed everything twice a week, use a hepa air cleaner. Removed carpetting and curtains in my room. Yet nothing has worked.
@@Virtuoso-wz5lq It sounds like you have done the right things for dust mite allergy. However, I am tired from clinical practice, and cannot give individual medical advice remotely. Are you sure that you don't have another allergy or another condition altogether? Have you seen a Board Certified Allergist?
@@jeffreymiller4534 I went to see a certified allergist and once it was done all they said to me was that I was severely allergic to dusmites. They never brought up any anything else. Just dust mites.
@@Virtuoso-wz5lq As I said, I cannot make diagnostic or treatment recommendations specific to your case. But in situations like this, possibilities to think about include: 1. You know that I have a commercial conflict of interest here, but it is a fact that some encasings marketed as being mite-allergen-proof are not. 2. There might be unrecognized sources of mite exposure (e.g. a couch, a damp basement, clothing) 3. there could be a concomitant condition in addition to the mite allergy (e.g. an allergy to cow's milk or another food; nasal polyps; chronic sinusitis) 4. an adjustment of medication may be required. (if the mite allergy is strong enough it might not respond to allergen-avoidance alone). The bottomline is that this should be the allergist's problem to solve, and you should consider returning to your allergist to report your lack of response, or consider obtaining a second opinion.
@@Virtuoso-wz5lq Also, I take a quick 3 minute shower before going to bed. I stopped using soap, just rinse (I use soap in the morning) to get mites and debris off before I go to bed. It helps a lot. Just make sure that you are dry before getting into bed as mites love moisture. Do you have any wool in the house? I got rid of all wool in my house. Wool breeds mites. I used to sit next to a guy at work that had a wool coat that he would hang at his desk and if I was within 8 feet of it, I would itch profusely. What about pets? I haven't had pets in years, but they made me itch. They had to sleep in their beds 8 feet away. No getting on my bed or my recliner. I had to wash them a lot.
@@jeffreymillermd PLEASE HELP ! I NEED HELP ! i have a serious problem. please can someone help me or tell me what to do ?? i was living in a flat. i think there was something on the carpet. some mites or some sort of plague or something. i dont know exactly what it was. i often had a lot of my belongings laid on the carpet, like newspapers, books, some clothes, mobile phones etc. the carpet was almost half covered by these things. i then went away for one year and left someone to look after the flat, but he moved out after 1 month. so the flat was empty for almost a year. when i returned back there were cobwebs every where, and carpet had lots of dirt and dust on it, some biscuit crumbs and some foodstuff etc. as i walked around the room my body started itching. maybe carpet mites ? i dont know. i looked around to see if there was any mould anywhere, but there wasnt. after a few days i started getting bubbles on my skin, brown bubbles. and to my shock and horror i started getting bubbles in my eyes !! they grew big inside the eye and i could have easily busted them and possibly ruined my eyes, but luckily i didnt. i moved out of the flat soon after and put all my belongings into storage which i had to pay for. i rented just 1 room temporarily for a few months. everything was fine. i then got my own flat. first two weeks i was there without my belongings. everything was fine. i then started getting my belongings out from storage and into my new flat. to my shock and horror everytime i touched any of my belongings i felt itchy and wanting to scratch my skin. the itchiness was not normal. it was sharp 'stings' that were very very painful and as if trying to go right through my skin. the more belongings i got out from storage and into my flat the worst it got. the whole flat then started looking 'brown' and goey as if there was dust everywhere, and whatever was in the air that transferred from my belongings, hurt my skin immensely. the walls started looking very dusty and brown. everytime i breathed, i felt stingy stuff going inside me. i started getting the brown bubbles on my skin again, and some parts of my skin started to peel off and bleed !!! its like living in hell. i dont know what to do. i went to my doctor but she said it could just be carpet mites. the doctor says to keep things clean. but whatever it is, they have literally gone everywhere. they are on all my important papers as well. i mean how am i going to get rid of them from my paperwork, such as my school and university certificates, important documents. i tried to clean my documents using paper towels but all this does is smudge the bacteria or mite or whatever it is, and makes my documents look dirty and brown. it doesnt get rid of whatever it is. once i have cleaned my documents if i touch them, i still get the stings and scratchiness. they are obviously still on the documents and not gone away. i cant obviously wash the documents. so how do i get rid of them ?? with clothes , i can wash them and try and get rid of the problem, but with documents i cant do this. every single one of my documents, books, paperwork has been infected. please help, i dont know what to do ?????!! the problem now is everything else in my flat, i.e. the newer clean stuff is now being infeccted as well, and they are now beginning to look brown and feel itchy and stingy. whatever it is, seems to be airborne as well, and spreading everywhere. if i take my shirt of in the flat, within minutes i start scratching and my body looks and feels brown and gooey. it seems that even if i clean everything, even if there is a small bit of it left somewhere , it spreads very fast to everything else. and within a few minutes everything becomes infected again. this thing seems to spread and multiply quickly. it is A VERY DANGEROUS THING, AND I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP AND SAVE MY LIFE AS I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ???? i have tried using sprays, but they havent helped. as some of the stuff still stays and then spreads quickly again. Iam beginning to wonder if it is some sort of plague ? THANK YOU.
It depends on what you mean by "it". A mattress is much too thick for sun exposure to kill the mites within it. For a blanket, sunlight on a dry day can be of benefit, but it takes 8 hours of exposure to kill the mites, which are probably dying more from dehydration than from the direct effect of the sunlight. It would be easier and quicker to put the dry blanket in a clothes dryer for 10 minutes, which will kill the mites, and which you can then was out. Sun exposure is more useful for killing mold than for killing mites.
Jeffrey Miller I live in a tropical country where average households don't have dryer. We do have an abundance of sunlight. Maybe I can try soaking the sheets in very hot water.
@@ssnarashi Hot water is a good idea, but the item should be totally submerged to drown the mites. If your tropical climate is humid the sunlight will not be as helpful.
If you can't "Wipe", "Wash", or "Encase" an item, you'd have to "Remove" it. Whether this is actually necessary or not will depend on how allergic to dust mites the individual is, and how much time is spent on that couch. At a minimum the allergic person should not nap on the couch with his or her face in contact with it. But the ideal situation, if finances allow, would be to remove it and replace it with a couch made of wipeable material (leather or vinyl). The same applies to all upholstered furniture.
I've had these encasings for years and they really work. Bets part about it, made in America. They also don't make noise when you move unlike cheap encasings.
Dust mite allergy is the same as shellfish allergy. They both produce the same enzyme. Cutting out all shellfish has helped me tremendously. Also, cutting out fish that eat shellfish/krill and not using krill oil has helped.
Very interesting. Thx for the info
a sane and informational (retro) video. Thank you
Excellent information. Thanks!
I'm glad that you found it useful.
Wipe
Wash
Encase
Remove
Dehumidify
Excellent.
Thanks. I'm glad you found it helpful.
Dust mites have evolved to live on/in human skin, I know bc i found them on microscope in hardened calloused skin around my fingers jams and toes I also believe I have scabies or bird mites as well they are red in color but look like freckles or darker skin spots.. doctors don’t help At all I’m losing my mind at this point
Do they make a bag for dogs
I was told by an allergy doctor that told me I was allergic to dust.did he mean to the dust mites?
Yes, specifically dust mite droppings.
I was recently diagnosed with dust mite allergy. My doctor gave me your information and also suggested an air purifier but I see you are not pro air purifiers for mites. Thinking she did so more for other allergies such as pollen and pet dander
Any thoughts ?
You are correct. Air cleaners produce the most benefit for allergens that stay in the air for long periods of time, namely pet allergens and pollens. Most mite allergen exposure is from direct contact with bedding, clothing, carpets, upholstered furniture, etc. Mite allergens become airborne when these materials are disturbed, but the allergens fall from the air relatively quickly, and are thus not available for removal by air purifiers. An air purifier can't hurt, but it is low on the list of priorities for mite allergy.
After putting on laundered clothing ,my skin is itchy, feels like bugs crawling allover my scalp erc🤔🤔
but if you wash then store the bedding wont the dust mites grow there?
Only if the bedding is in contact with some other item that is harboring mites. Sheets by themselves on a hard shelf would probably not be a problem. Washed blankets stacked on top of other blankets would become infested. It is best to keep washed bedding separate, in closed plastic containers.
Washing my bedding and blankets in hot water will definitely shrink them :(
Then use cold or warm water. It will not get out all of the mites, but it will get out most of them. You can also put the items in the clothes dryer first (i.e. dry) for 10 minutes, which will kill the mites; then wash the item in cold water.
@@jeffreymiller4534 Thank you for your reply.
@4:45 cheap poly-carpets,
the perfect home for dust mites
Dust mites are happy in expensive wool carpets too!
Would you still recommend all the steps in this video 12 years later?
Thanks, Tim
Yes. One small bit of newer knowledge is that warm water washing is sufficient in top loading washing machines (where the blanket is submerged in water for longer periods of time, allowing the mites to die by drowning) but hot water should be used in the newer, front loading "high efficiency" washing machines, where the items are repeatedly sprayed but not allowed to soak for long. Most high efficiency machines have a direct temperature control, so there is no need to raise the temperature of the hot water throughout the house.
Separate from allergen-avoidance, another change is a newer treatment alternative to allergy injections, namely "sublingual immunotherapy".
@@jeffreymillermd Thank you for your reply.
I'm currently doing allergy injections (specific immunotherapy) for the second time, I started half a year ago. I have not considered sublingual immunotherapy, but I will talk to my doctor about it.
From 1 have this problem of scabies but it's not I m going 10 doctors of skin specialist
Hi, I've been having a really bad experience with dust mites and have done literally almost everything. Is there any way I can contact you?
I've bought a new mattress, used anti dust mite bed sheet covers, tried antihistamines (allegra, claritin, reactine), used neils med sinus rinse, used nasal sprays (fluorine, avamys, 3 others) made my room the right humidity and temperature, washed everything twice a week, use a hepa air cleaner. Removed carpetting and curtains in my room. Yet nothing has worked.
@@Virtuoso-wz5lq It sounds like you have done the right things for dust mite allergy. However, I am tired from clinical practice, and cannot give individual medical advice remotely. Are you sure that you don't have another allergy or another condition altogether? Have you seen a Board Certified Allergist?
@@jeffreymiller4534 I went to see a certified allergist and once it was done all they said to me was that I was severely allergic to dusmites. They never brought up any anything else. Just dust mites.
@@Virtuoso-wz5lq As I said, I cannot make diagnostic or treatment recommendations specific to your case. But in situations like this, possibilities to think about include: 1. You know that I have a commercial conflict of interest here, but it is a fact that some encasings marketed as being mite-allergen-proof are not. 2. There might be unrecognized sources of mite exposure (e.g. a couch, a damp basement, clothing) 3. there could be a concomitant condition in addition to the mite allergy (e.g. an allergy to cow's milk or another food; nasal polyps; chronic sinusitis) 4. an adjustment of medication may be required. (if the mite allergy is strong enough it might not respond to allergen-avoidance alone). The bottomline is that this should be the allergist's problem to solve, and you should consider returning to your allergist to report your lack of response, or consider obtaining a second opinion.
@@Virtuoso-wz5lq Also, I take a quick 3 minute shower before going to bed. I stopped using soap, just rinse (I use soap in the morning) to get mites and debris off before I go to bed. It helps a lot. Just make sure that you are dry before getting into bed as mites love moisture.
Do you have any wool in the house? I got rid of all wool in my house. Wool breeds mites. I used to sit next to a guy at work that had a wool coat that he would hang at his desk and if I was within 8 feet of it, I would itch profusely.
What about pets? I haven't had pets in years, but they made me itch. They had to sleep in their beds 8 feet away. No getting on my bed or my recliner. I had to wash them a lot.
they are in my hair please how can I get rid of them ?
I'm not sure what is in your hair, but I am sure that they are not dust mites.
Jeffrey Miller MD they look gray and they also look like dust
@@jeffreymillermd
PLEASE HELP ! I NEED HELP ! i have a serious problem. please can someone help me or tell me what to do ??
i was living in a flat. i think there was something on the carpet. some mites or some sort of plague or something. i dont know exactly what it was.
i often had a lot of my belongings laid on the carpet, like newspapers, books, some clothes, mobile phones etc. the carpet was almost half covered by these things. i then went away for one year and left someone to look after the flat, but he moved out after 1 month. so the flat was empty for almost a year.
when i returned back there were cobwebs every where, and carpet had lots of dirt and dust on it, some biscuit crumbs and some foodstuff etc. as i walked around the room my body started itching. maybe carpet mites ? i dont know. i looked around to see if there was any mould anywhere, but there wasnt. after a few days i started getting bubbles on my skin, brown bubbles. and to my shock and horror i started getting bubbles in my eyes !! they grew big inside the eye and i could have easily busted them and possibly ruined my eyes, but luckily i didnt.
i moved out of the flat soon after and put all my belongings into storage which i had to pay for. i rented just 1 room temporarily for a few months. everything was fine. i then got my own flat. first two weeks i was there without my belongings. everything was fine. i then started getting my belongings out from storage and into my new flat.
to my shock and horror everytime i touched any of my belongings i felt itchy and wanting to scratch my skin. the itchiness was not normal. it was sharp 'stings' that were very very painful and as if trying to go right through my skin. the more belongings i got out from storage and into my flat the worst it got. the whole flat then started looking 'brown' and goey as if there was dust everywhere, and whatever was in the air that transferred from my belongings, hurt my skin immensely. the walls started looking very dusty and brown. everytime i breathed, i felt stingy stuff going inside me. i started getting the brown bubbles on my skin again, and some parts of my skin started to peel off and bleed !!! its like living in hell.
i dont know what to do. i went to my doctor but she said it could just be carpet mites. the doctor says to keep things clean.
but whatever it is, they have literally gone everywhere. they are on all my important papers as well. i mean how am i going to get rid of them from my paperwork, such as my school and university certificates, important documents. i tried to clean my documents using paper towels but all this does is smudge the bacteria or mite or whatever it is, and makes my documents look dirty and brown. it doesnt get rid of whatever it is. once i have cleaned my documents if i touch them, i still get the stings and scratchiness. they are obviously still on the documents and not gone away. i cant obviously wash the documents. so how do i get rid of them ?? with clothes , i can wash them and try and get rid of the problem, but with documents i cant do this. every single one of my documents, books, paperwork has been infected. please help, i dont know what to do ?????!!
the problem now is everything else in my flat, i.e. the newer clean stuff is now being infeccted as well, and they are now beginning to look brown and feel itchy and stingy.
whatever it is, seems to be airborne as well, and spreading everywhere. if i take my shirt of in the flat, within minutes i start scratching and my body looks and feels brown and gooey.
it seems that even if i clean everything, even if there is a small bit of it left somewhere , it spreads very fast to everything else. and within a few minutes everything becomes infected again. this thing seems to spread and multiply quickly. it is A VERY DANGEROUS THING, AND I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP AND SAVE MY LIFE AS I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ???? i have tried using sprays, but they havent helped. as some of the stuff still stays and then spreads quickly again. Iam beginning to wonder if it is some sort of plague ?
THANK YOU.
Will it help to leave it under the sun?
It depends on what you mean by "it". A mattress is much too thick for sun exposure to kill the mites within it. For a blanket, sunlight on a dry day can be of benefit, but it takes 8 hours of exposure to kill the mites, which are probably dying more from dehydration than from the direct effect of the sunlight. It would be easier and quicker to put the dry blanket in a clothes dryer for 10 minutes, which will kill the mites, and which you can then was out.
Sun exposure is more useful for killing mold than for killing mites.
Jeffrey Miller I live in a tropical country where average households don't have dryer. We do have an abundance of sunlight. Maybe I can try soaking the sheets in very hot water.
@@ssnarashi Hot water is a good idea, but the item should be totally submerged to drown the mites. If your tropical climate is humid the sunlight will not be as helpful.
Does vacuuming help
Vacuuming will remove some of the mite allergen, but not the live mites themselves.
@@jeffreymillermd aaah, their feces, that is
What about on our couch we cant wash that
If you can't "Wipe", "Wash", or "Encase" an item, you'd have to "Remove" it. Whether this is actually necessary or not will depend on how allergic to dust mites the individual is, and how much time is spent on that couch. At a minimum the allergic person should not nap on the couch with his or her face in contact with it. But the ideal situation, if finances allow, would be to remove it and replace it with a couch made of wipeable material (leather or vinyl). The same applies to all upholstered furniture.
Jeffrey Miller MD what about leather
3:22 maybe buy a new washer first.
To see dust mites under the microscope in High Definition see my video ua-cam.com/video/_vlsxTB9dHg/v-deo.html