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Memory Foam= Dust Mites/Bed Bugs?
By fthomas | May 27, 2009
I need to buy a new matress and I’m wondering if getting a memory foam matress would be good? My biggest concern is bed bugs and dust mites, I want to know if a memory foam matress would prevent them better over an ordinary matress
Topics: Memory Foam Mattress | 3 Comments »
May 28th, 2009 at 12:46 am
We have Tempurpedic and they told us you can’t have dust mites with one. I don’t know about the bed bugs as that wasn’t the issue it is now when we purchased ours. You can probably go to and email them. I can tell you without a doubt it’s the best mattress we have ever had and would never buy anything else!
May 30th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I seriously doubt if it would. The mattress has nothing to do with you getting bed bugs. They a carried in from other places. If you have been listening to the news lately, NY has bunches of them on wooden benches and in the subways. I’m quite sure they can be tranmitted from place to place on clothing etc.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Dust mites need food to live. This is typically your skin flakes!
Conventional mattresses can get incredibly dusty inside, plus the natural fibers they are built with can be eaten by certain micro-organisms. So they provide a place to live, and food. Not good.
Memory foam is made of synthetic materials that do not provide food to organisms. The dust mites find it difficult to live inside the foam, as it is essentially a “desert” for them.
So the main advantage of a memory foam mattress is that the inside cannot hold dust or skin flakes, whereas a conventional mattress can.
Both can get bed bugs / dust mites in the sheets of course.
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