The Health Issue
Did you know?
- A 6yr old pillow gets 1/10th of its weight from live dust mites, dead dust mites and dust mite faeces.
- An average 3 bedroom home can generate 18 kg of dust annually (that's 27 MILLION dust mites).
- Chemicals that you use to clean your home may cause damage to your health.
- Chemicals cause headaches, dizziness, fatigue, eye/skin irritation and breathing difficulties.
- Airborne dust fragments cause eye irritation, allergies, eye, ear, nose and throat infections, asthma attacks, fatigue and depression.
- Experts say that 2-10 million dust mites live in your mattress
- 28g of dust contains 42,000 dust mites
- Bacteria live in your heating and cooling systems, kitchen, garbage, bathroom, and on your pets.
- Bacteria can cause colds, flu, respiratory infections and eye infections.
- Your air conditioner only cools or warms your rooms. It does not improve your air quality. The ductwork of these systems helps distribute indoor air pollutants throughout your home.
- Mould spores are found in your heating and cooling ducts, in damp clothing, in moisture on ceilings, walls, carpets and curtains. Mould causes allergies, sinus headaches, irritability, fatigue and depression.
- People are spending more than 90% of their time indoors.
- More people are being affected by lung and heart problems. Many of these symptoms, experts say, are caused or aggravated by breathing poor indoor air.
- Those at greatest risk are young children whose immune systems are not fully developed, and the elderly and people afflicted with asthma, allergies and other lung and heart ailments.
