Client reader Miss Ma asked: Recent sleep often feel chest tightness, suffocation, because laryngeal edema sent to the emergency room for treatment, the symptoms are still repeated after treatment .Doctors doubt may be too much dust bedding bedding, causing allergies. What should I do?
Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Dr. Gao Xiang allergy answers: My hospital has admitted to a patient, the situation is similar to you and found that her family's buckwheat pillow has been used almost 20 years, the dust mites have long been piling up in. Since switching to a new pillow, her asthma and throat Edema has never happened. The dust mite's head is only 1% of a meter so big. 1 gram of bed dust contains 20,000 dust mites, 200,000 pellets and dust mites saliva, these are allergens Children asthma, allergic rhinitis, eczema, dust mites may be the cause of disasters .Dust mites afraid of high temperature, freezing, drying, ventilation. Bedding at home to be regularly replaced, cleaning, exposure; regular room ventilation.
Dust mites lurk deeper in toys and smaller objects, freezing at minus 20 degrees for 24 hours more effective than insolation.For dust mite favorite buckwheat pillow and pillowcase, you should dump the buckwheat husk with a 55 degree Hot water above, soak for 10 minutes or more, exposure to 6 hours. The new mattress do not strip that layer of plastic packaging film; to a clean pillow installed a mite pillowcase, can prevent the accumulation of dust mites.
