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The hideous creature pictured on the right, is a dust mite: one of the two million that infest the average home. They hide in your carpet, upholstery, drapes, mattress and pillows.

Microscopic mite faeces and corpses are small enough to be airborne and get into your lungs. 80% of the 11 million Americans who suffer from allergies are allergic to airborne mite refuse. How bad is it? Well, one tenth of the weight of a 2 year old pillow is dust mite faeces. Your home is a dust mite nursery, and you could be swimming in their unhealthy mire.

Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, head of Allergic Medicine at the University of Virginia Medical School, estimates that somewhere between 500,000 and a million hospital visits are made each year by patients allergic to biocontaminants such as fungi, mites, and bacteria. Dr. Michael Berry of the EPA states that "Carpeting and fabrics not cleaned and properly maintained have the potential to cause a variety of health problems inside the building environment."

The average person spends 90% of their time indoors. Worse still, recently the EPA put into the Congressional Record the fact that indoor air is more polluted than outdoor air. Americans are literally giving themselves and their children lifelong allergies with our disgusting indoor air. Every time you walk into your house, you bring lots of pollutants in with you: pollens, chemicals, soil, tar, dirt, car exhaust, cigarette smoke, and thousands of other things. Then you shut the door, and these pollutants have nowhere to go except where gravity takes them into your carpet! How bad are these pollutants? Well, for example, the day after you spray for bugs, the concentration of insecticide is 10 times stronger in your carpet than it is outside where you put the poison. Can you imagine your child or grandchild crawling across a carpet that has 10 times the insecticide needed to kill bugs, putting their hands in their eyes and mouths?

Call BetterCleaning today at 0800 695 4000 or email us. We will clean your carpet not only for appearance, but also for the health of you and your loved ones.

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