Dirty Secrets: 6 Unexpected Problems That May Be Lurking in Your Carpet
Almost every home has carpets or carpeting. They create comfort, keep warm and drown out extraneous sounds. We thoroughly vacuum them, clean them with various detergents and do not think about the fact that the carpets in our houses can be a dwelling for various insects and a hotbed of serious diseases.
Unexpected guests in the form of insects
Dust mites. Over the course of time, a myriad of dust gathers in the carpets, in which dust mites (dermatophagoides) start and quickly multiply. They feed on dead particles of human skin and secrete vital products over their entire lives 200 times more than they weigh. Life products, in turn, fall into the air that the family breathes. This can cause severe allergic reactions. Most of all, children suffer from ticks.
Combating dust mites is difficult. To get rid of ticks and their larvae yourself, you need to ventilate the premises where the carpets are several times a day, regularly knock and weather them on the street, use a quartz lamp.
Fleas. Ordinary fleas that prefer dry places also like to wind up in carpets. These parasites feed on human blood. They can infect a person with various parasites and dangerous diseases with a bite, cause itching and dermatitis. Often, fleas are brought to us by pets.
To get rid of them, you will have to use poisonous chemistry, for example, dichlorvos or another potent insect repellent. Pets will also need to be treated with specialized means from fleas for animals.
Carpet beetles are leather-eaters. They fall into our apartments from the street, crawling in the open windows in the summer. Often the owners themselves bring them on themselves. They pose a danger to people, carrying a lot of harmful microorganisms and worm eggs when they bite.
Fighting carpet bugs and their larvae requires a lot of time and effort. It is necessary to carry out disinsection of both the carpet and the entire apartment, since the larvae quickly spread and hide behind furniture, baseboards and other hard-to-reach places.
Bedbugs. Small brown insects without wings. They feed on the blood of people and animals. Bedbugs rarely start in carpets; they prefer to hide under it and in dark, inaccessible places of the apartment.
If the bugs are still wound up, frequent vacuuming and knocking out the carpet on the street will help get rid of them. You can also use a remedy for bedbugs.
Mold spores
Another unpleasant and dangerous inhabitant of carpets is mold. It starts in rooms with high humidity. A couple of days is enough for her to wound up in the carpet. The mold has a musty, unpleasant odor, and its spores are scattered through the air throughout the room. It is dangerous in that it can weaken the body's immune system, and you need to get rid of it as soon as possible.
The carpet infected with mold is taken outside, thoroughly cleaned with a hard brush, and then treated with a special mold cleaner or a strong solution of soda. After processing, the carpet is rinsed abundantly on both sides and dried. The room where he was located should be aired for several days and wet-cleaned to get rid of the remaining spores.
Dead skin cells
Each person loses on average about 1.5 million dead skin cells per day, which falls on the floor and carpets of our apartment.They also feed on dust mites, which contributes to the reproduction and active release of their vital products, which, getting into the air, often cause allergies.
To avoid this, regularly vacuum floors, furniture and carpets and do not allow excessive humidity in the room.
Particles of the filler and the feces themselves from the cat
The cat in the house always leads to a variety of pollution. Like all animals, they defecate. And even if they go to the tray with the filler, the particles of the filler and the feces themselves will in any case end up on the carpet. And if you do not get rid of them in time with detergents, the smell will intensify. This is due to bacteria living in the carpet and feeding on organic waste.
Stuck pollen
During flowering, pollen enters the apartment through open windows and gets stuck in the pile of carpets, causing allergic reactions in humans. To get rid of it, you need to dry the carpets as often as possible, and during the flowering period, keep the windows closed or put nets on them.
What to do, what general measures to take to ensure that our carpets are clean and safe for health?
First, do not walk on carpets in shoes in which you walked on the street.
Secondly, every year the carpet needs to be assigned for dry cleaning. At home, you can never clean it in the way that professionals do.
Third, keep the carpet clean for a year, even after dry cleaning.
