Treatment

Dust allergy is a chronic allergic respiratory tract disease, which requires more than treatment with medicals.
As with all allergic diseases it should be the first goal to avoid the illness-causing allergenic or to remove it from the environment of the patient.

It could be showed that a reduction of the mite allergenic in the home of the patient can the prevent the respiratory tract diseases of patients suffering from mite asthma. Up to now the scientists didn't succeed with the most intensive domestic allergenic elimination to make further therapeutic actions unnecessary-

Possibilites to fight and avoid mites

- not efficient, + conditional efficient, ++ efficient, (+) positive as well as negative studies

The highest mite allergenic concentrations were found in mattresses. A comparison of water beds, foam rubber mattresses and spring-interior mattresses showed no advantages for one of the three amttress types. The regular use of an electric blanket was able to lower the allergenic stress by 50-60%

A sensible alternative for the lowering of the allergenic concentration seem the synthetical bed covers, which are impermeable for mites. In covering especially of the mattresses an improvement of the condition of the patients can be reached.

Efficient, but unfortunately connected with a loss of life quality is the complete redevelopment of the bedroom. That means the removal of all carpets, curtains, sofas, mattresses and other dust catchers as well as reducing the room temperature and the humidity. Isolated measures like hoovering, even with high performance machines, or the application of machines, which reduce the humidity don't help.

An efficient result can't be confirmed for chemical acaricides This is because only the mites at the surface, e.g. of a mettress will be killed. Mites in deeper layers won't be reached and survive.

Recent studies confirm increasingly, that a complete absence of allergenics can't be reached.

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