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Don’t encasements kill dust mites?

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Don’t encasements kill dust mites?

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Encasements work by fully encasing your mattress with plastic or tight woven material. The house dust mites and their allergens are therefore confined within the encasement, where they continue to live and breed while you are sleeping. To work effectively, encasements must be washed regularly (at least once every month or so) to remove any dust mites and allergens that have started to reform on the encasement. Every time you remove the encasement for washing, dust mites and allergens on the mattress are released into the air. Dust mites and their allergens continue to build up on unwashed encasements over time. ActiveGuard was invented because less than 5% of asthmatics continue to wash encasements on a regular basis after initial installation. ActiveGuard should not be washed, and kills dust mites and continues to kill them for up to two years. It does not require regular maintenance, which allows for better compliance. If you are not physically able to regularly take off, wash and re

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