Memory Foam= Dust Mites/Bed Bugs? I need to buy a unmarked matress and I'm wondering if...
I need to buy a unmarked 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 routine matress
Answers: Dust mites need food to live. This is typically your skin flakes!
Conventional mattresses can find incredibly dusty inside, plus the natural fibers they are built beside can be eaten by unshakable 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 primary advantage of a memory foam mattress is that the inside cannot hold dust or skin flakes, whereas a conventional mattress can.
Both can obtain bed bugs / dust mites in the sheets logically.
Check out my site for more information on memory foam:
http://www.gmilburn.ca/memoryfoam/
We have Tempurpedic and they told us you can't enjoy dust mites with one. I don't know in the order of the bed bugs as that wasn't the issue it is now when we purchased ours. You can probably turn to www.tempurpedic.com and email them. I can tell you lacking a doubt it's the best mattress we have ever have and would never buy anything else!