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What is made up of primarily dead cells?
Dust is primarily made up of dead cells.
What causes house dust?
Most of it is dead skin cells in other words dead skin
How many dead skin cells do mites eat a day?
Dust mites do not actually eat dead skin cells but rather feed on the flakes of skin shed by humans and animals, consuming approximately 1/3 of their body weight in skin flakes daily.
Cells in the nose and the throat that trap dust particles?
They are actually small hairs called Cilia. Not cells.
Is a dust mite a parasite?
No, they are opportunistic feeders taking advantage of the dead skin cells we and our pets shed daily that accumulates in household dust. In effect they are actually helping to cleanup after us.
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