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Tom’s Guide
Technology
Rachael Penn

7 proven tips for reducing dust mites in your mattress, pillows and bed sheets

Bundled up sheets placed in the center of a bare white mattress on a black bed frame .

Dust mites and their droppings can impact both your health and your sleep, especially if you have allergies. Which is why knowing how to remove dust mites from your mattress, pillows and bed sheets is something we should all have in our arsenal of cleaning tips. 

Dust mites can make their home in even the best mattresses with the latest in hypoallergenic properties. They thrive warm, moist environments like mattresses and feast on dead skin cells, dust and pet dander, which naturally build within your home. However, their droppings can leave you with red, itchy eyes, itchy skin, sneezing, a stuffy or runny nose and a sore throat even heightening symptoms of eczema and asthma.

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