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Disclaimer: You will find that advice from different sources differs in detail. This may be because one expert knows more than another, or because nobody really knows for sure about some point but there are ideas about what the answer is likely to be.
Information from people who want to sell you something will obviously be given in order to encourage you to buy it. Someone with nothing to sell might not be so enthusiastic about it.
Please be realistic. Doctors do disagree, and are not always right. Some of the information from suppliers is excellent. But do rely mainly on information from people who are not trying to sell you something unless you need specific information about a product.
See it on video!
There is a superb new video for children and adults on house dust mites. It costs 9.99 pounds sterling (plus 2.50 pounds postage and packing in the UK), and stars broadcaster David Bellamy, miniaturised to get down into the mite's habitat. Its chief merits are its clarity, its simple but effective use of visual effects, and authorship by one of the foremost research workers on mite control.Title: "Who's been sleeping in your pillow?"
Duration: 15 minutes.
Available from:
Teaching support and media services
University of Southampton
Mail point 800
Southampton General Hospital
Tremona Road
Southampton
S016 6YD
United Kingdom
This video has been produced with a panel of recognised experts and has been approved by the National Asthma Campaign, the British Allergy Foundation, and the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology. None of these people or organisations has any financial interest in particular products used for mite control.
Get it in writing.
An uncommonly excellent booklet from the same source as the video, available from the above address in Southampton.Title: "Who's been sleeping in your pillow? A guide for parents of allergic asthmatic children"
Author: Dr. Jill Warner
Price: 2 pounds sterling in the UK.
A recommended book
Full of sense, unlike a lot of sources, this book costs £ 3.99. I wondered why I had not found it before, because it was published 2 years ago. For once a writer who takes notice of things serious scientists have been telling us for years. Indeed she has gone out of her way to consult people who are recognised experts before rushing into print. Refreshingly free of the myths which people would like to believe but which cause sufferers to waste money and effort on things which are at best useless and at worst constitute a way of robbing the sick to enrich rogues. An absolute bargain; other books of a similar nature sell at twice the price.
Title: "House Dust Mites"
Author: Des Whitrow
Publisher: Right Way (Elliot Right Way Books, Kingswood, Surrey, UK)
Year of publication: 1995
ISBN: 0-7160-2034-3
Price: Paperback only, £ 3.99
Help!
If you spot mistakes or have questions, or have something useful or instructive to tell us about the topic on this page, please e-mail us. We cannot reply to all mail.To return to the main mite control page click here.
It was last updated on 10 June 1998
Copyright © 1997 M. A. Stern