The killing and effective cleanup of dust mites will greatly enhance your baby eczema prevention efforts. The form of eczema that most often affects babies are most often affected more adversely by dust mites than by other allergens. Dust mites are even more damaging than the number one cause of irritation which is hay fever in the lives of babies that have eczema.

You want to know if bleach is able to kill dust mites. This article will answer that question.

Dust mites can be cleaned out with air filters. This will not be the best way of getting rid of them as they are animals that like to burrow. Using an air filter will only capture the dust mites that become airborne. In comparison to the mites that do not become airborne the amount will be relatively small. You do not want to completely ignore air filters though because they can become a valued contributor to the entire effort of getting the dust mite away from the presence of your baby.

You also need to know that not only do you need to get rid of the mites that are alive, but you will also need to get rid of the fecal matter and the carcasses of the dead mites as well. These substances are just as much an irritant to babies that have baby eczema, as the live dust mites.

When you kill your mites, you need to use vacuums with special filters that can capture and contain the dust mite, their carcasses and their feces. The dust mite is only between 100 and 300 microns wide. At this size, normal vacuum cleaner bags will not be able to hold them. They will be able to pass right through the fibers and back into the locations where they were previously irritating your baby from.

Now back to the bleach. It is unlikely that you will be able to kill dust mites using bleach. The option I see that negates this statement is maybe if you boil them in bleach you can kill them. You see when you boil them in water for about two or three hours you are able to kill them. So if you can kill them by boiling them in water, you may be able to kill them by boiling them in bleach. Otherwise, bleach will not have an effect on killing the dust mite. You just need to get as much of the dust out of your baby’s environment that you possibly can. However do not depend on bleach to get rid of your dust mite problem.

By: Broyde McDonald