Have you ever experience sore throat, skin itching, sinus problem, runny nose in the morning, and some other skin & respiratory allergy related issue which you are at home, especially sitting at your sofa or sleeping on your own mattress? It doesn’t matter if you have changed your bedsheet, serviced your air conditioner, or even with an air purifier, but the symptoms still persist? 

Well you are not alone. Having these symptoms are common as it is mostly due to dust, dust mites and other tiny particles that reside within our upholstery, particularly if our upholstery is made of fabric or microfiber materials. The fabrics tend to have charges and will cause it to attract dust from the surrounding. More than just the dust, there are some other creatures and microorganism that tends to be attracted as well – dust mites. 

Dust mites are almost everywhere – feeding from the moist in the air and the shredded dead skin from our body. Malaysia’s humid and warm weather is a perfect fit for the dust mites, making them grow comfortably within our home. More ever, the dead corpses and feces of the dust mites are an absolute biohazards and often is the culprit for causing skin & respiratory related issues. Sleeping and breathing with millions of these bugs around us for a prolonged period of time will certainly cause health related issue. So what do we do?