Cleaning for Allergy Sufferers

100 per cent mite-free textiles

Almost ten per cent of all allergy sufferers in Central Europe are allergic to house dust or house dust mites. The most frequent symptoms of this disorder include allergic asthma, hay fever, skin diseases and inflammation of the nasal mucosa and conjunctiva. Our beds offer the ideal conditions for dust mites to live and reproduce. 
 
House dust mites mainly live on flakes of shed human skin. High relative humidity and temperatures around 25 °C are ideal conditions for their survival. Beds therefore function as biotopes and are home to 66 per cent of all allergy-triggering mites.




Fred Butler's CO₂ cleaning process is an effective and long-lasting method of killing and removing house dust mites and the allergens they produce – as the Swedish research institute Allergon AB discovered. Allergon's results were confirmed by SGS Institut Fresenius. Testers established cultures of house dust mites, or dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, on selected textile types, then cleaned the textiles. After cleaning, no living mites were found. However, a critical additional feature is that no living mites could be detected after a further 72 days of cultivation under optimum conditions for mite survival. The Institute was thus able to prove that the CO₂ cleaning process not only kills adult mites, but also destroys their eggs, larvae and faeces.

Fred Butler CO₂ cleaning process – recommended for allergy sufferers by SGS Institut Fresenius