Get rid of your hotel’s dust mites with Raycop
If you suffer from dust allergies, dust mites may be a big problem for you. The problem is, although you can take precautions at home, you have little control over how your hotel or motel takes care of their beds. If you have a bit of free space in your suitcase, you could try packing the Raycop anti-bacterial vacuum cleaner and bringing it with you.
Not only does it vacuum up dust and fluff and other things you might prefer not to think about in your bed, it has a UV-C sterilizing lamp and also kills 99.9% of bacteria and helps knock out dust mites and other ick factors hiding inside the sheets and mattress. The vacuum has a vibrating pad which helps to release the dust mites from the fabric, allowing them to be suctioned up and it has special allergy filtration to help prevent blasting everything you suck up back out the vent.
It’s not cheap, it costs £149.99 in the UK, but if your allergies are severe, you might find it worthwhile, plus you can also use it at home.
I feel a little itchy now.
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No matter how clean the home, all mattresses are prone to the same problem. When we sleep, we produce up to half a liter of sweat every night & shed about a gram of skin each day and although we wear night clothes, which we wash regularly, together with our bed linen, this is no protection against what happens to the mattress.
Very quickly the mattress will become host to a multitude of horrors, from bacteria to fungal spores and microscopic house dust mites which feed off dead flakes of skin. Is it any wonder that without cleaning a mattress, it could be the dirtiest item in your home? It is estimated that there are up to 2 million house dust mites living in a mattress and in an average pillow, 10% of its weight is made up of dead skin and dust mites.
House dust mites find a mattress the perfect breeding ground. With warmth and moisture and no natural enemies, they will establish in a mattress within several months and it is their droppings which cause most problems. These have been medically proven to trigger a whole host of allergic reactions, from Asthma, Eczema and Bronchitis, to Itchy Eyes and Sneezing.
Even protective bedding sheets may be largely ineffective in reducing problems like asthma, when they are the only measure taken to combat an allergy (source: New England Journal of Medicine).
The idea of mattress cleaning isn’t a new one. In other European countries and the United States, it has been performed for years. It’s chemical-free, dry and all performed on site using specially designed state of the art equipment.
The current view of many experts is that dust mites are impossible to totally remove. This is true, it would be very expensive and almost impossible, but by knowing a little about them it is very feasible to make a dramatic impact on them and improve your dust mite allergy.
Therefore, if a combination of measures are undertaken, then the likelihood of some one’s dust mite allergy improving will increase drastically.
Most suggestions will be to remove carpets and replace with hardwood floor, buy a good protective mattress cover, wash at 130+ degrees and clean regularly. However, while this may help, this is not the right answer for everybody and that is why when we come to you to clean your mattress, we can help in many other ways as well. Check out our site for more health benefits at http://www.thebedmed.com