How To Clean A Mattress

Who are you sleeping with tonight?

Mattresses are a major source of dust mites and their allergens. Other contaminants can include bacteria, viruses, mould spores, fleas, pollen spores and pet dander. You sleep on this all night long, every night! Yet how to clean a mattress and keep your bedding as hygienically clean as possible and at the same time dustmite free is crucial to your family’s health.

Most of the dust collected from your mattress, pillows and doonas consist of flakes of dead skin from you and your partner, about a kilo a year. The dust also contains dust mites feeding on the dead skin cells you shed during the night and their droppings. Take a moment, you breathe this in every night when you put your head down to sleep!

Pillows are one of the dirtiest items on your bed and need to replaced regularly. Perspiration, oils from your head and hair care products end up on your pillows, leaving them contaminated with bacteria, odours and badly stained. 100% Cotton Pillows are the best choice for allergy sufferers. Synthetic foam or polyester / acrylic filled bedding is preferable for use by allergy sufferers being more resilient to house dust mite infestation and dust mites allergy prevention. However, these material mattresses should still be replaced 6 monthly to minimise severe mould infestation.

Tests performed at the University of Adelaide, South Australia demonstrated that over 700 litres of body liquids pass through the average couples quilt over three to four years, the ideal breeding ground for dustmite. An adult perspires and breathes around half a litre of moisture each night. Over time the soiled filling, particularly in your quilt, clumps together which means it holds less air and makes your quilt flatter and colder.

Over time, stains and mainly perspiration forms in and on quilts and their outer casing. They need regular cleaning like your pillow cases and sheets. Use the pillows and quilts straight away unlike dry cleaning.

During washing, feather and down doonas require a solution free from enzymes, water conditioners, dye stuffs, alkline and silicilates which are contained in normal washing detergents. These additives strip freather and down of its natural oils and leaving them brittle, accelerating their breakdown. The fine dust becomes airborne, you breathe it in and what the nose does not filter, the minute particles can eventually settle in the lungs causing symptoms such as can’t stop coughing, excessive phlegm or an irritating tickle in the back of the throat.

As you can see, there are several factors to consider in a dust mites mattress. Dead skin cells which the dust mites feed on, moisture which sustains dust mites, mould and mildew and irregular mattress cleaning if any at all during it’s life time.

Regular washing of sheets, pillow and doona cases in hot water weekly will provide you with welcome relief from this major source of allergen. Yet, mattresses, doonas and pillows also need regular attention like your sheets.

Wake up refreshed. Sleeping on fresh, clean mattresses, doonas and pillows, Mitey Fresh, unlike normal vacuum cleaning and steam cleaning businesses, no matter how thorough, searches out and removes the causes of the problem – the polluting weight of dust, ground-in dirt, grit, renovation dust, pet hair, dander, pollen, dust mites and their faeces hiding deep in your carpets, mattresses and furnishings.

Mitey Fresh uses an advanced technology cleaning system, high frequency agitation with commercial strength vacuum and at the same time it uniquely cleans the air.

Completely thorough, environmentally friendly, safe, yet so gentle we actually rejuvenate your valuable furnishings! No steam, moisture or chemicals.

Our treatment not only gives your home a wonderful atmosphere of health and cleanliness, at the same time, Mitey Fresh search out and remove the triggers of asthma, eczema and allergies and enhances your dust mite control program.

Alternatively, you can overcome the use of dust mite spray and cleaning with specialised dust mite bedding allergen-barrier covers for the mattress, quilt and pillow such as AllerProtect and Mite-Guard dust mite covers.

To a natural, asthma home remedy and welcome symptom relief from dust mites and their allergens, understanding how to clean a mattress and using the correct service or products, is more effective than normal vacuuming.

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