Mattress Cleaning

The dust mite gathers where there is warmth, moisture, and a good supply of their food, skin flakes.  This makes the average mattress an absolutely perfect environment for them to live and breed in.  At Mum’s Helping Hands we provide a mattress cleaning service, in order to remove what could be anything between 100,000 and 10 million mites from your mattress.  

If you are one of the many people in the UK who are allergic to them (including 85% of all asthma sufferers), then this could save you countess hours of lost sleep caused by the discomfort of your allergic reaction.  If a persistent blocked up nose, irritated eyes, irritated skin, or worsened asthma and eczema symptoms are a familiar problem to you at night, then you may be one of these unfortunate sufferers, and lowering your dust mite population can be an effective way of reducing these symptoms.  

For more detailed information about allergy to dust mites, see our Dust Mite Allergy Fact Sheet.

We also offer this service to hotels, allowing them to create allergy friendly hotel rooms around the country, meaning travelling with allergies isn’t a problem any more.

Upholstery can be a similar haven for mites, so we can provide a thorough cleaning of upholstered furniture to further help you in the battle against dust mites.

Dust mite facts:

• The allergic reaction isn’t caused by dust mites themselves, but by their faecal pellets.  Over 200 times its body weight of these are produced in each individual mite’s lifetime.
• They gather wherever dust does, making mattresses, carpets, rugs and children’s stuffed toys the perfect places for them.
• Symptoms last all year round and are sometimes worse in the winter due to closed windows causing less ventilation.
• An allergic sensitivity can be caused by exposure to them at a young age, and they have also been linked to the development of childhood asthma.
• Even a newly built home will have fully established populations of them after just a year.
• Using a regular vacuum cleaning to get rid of them can make matters worse, as they don’t have adequate filters for mite removal, and push the allergen up into the air, making reactions flare up.