Today’s mattresses and pillows are the ideal environment for house dust mites. As well as this the average person loses 3/4 litre of moisture in sweat and sheds over a pound of dead skin scales throughout the year. Most of all this goes into the mattress providing food and drink for the dust mites to live off. Add to that that most mattresses now last for 15-20 years and due to their size and weight are seldom moved or aired and you have the perfect home for a whole cocktail of bacteria and other health threatening nasties. Almost half of all Australian suffer from Allergies and other related respiratory problems. Newly discovered, medical evidence indicates that the dust mite could very well be responsible.