i am allergic to dust.
[{"role": "system", "content": "House dust mites (HDM, or simply dust mites) are a large number of mites found in association with dust in dwellings. The main species are identified as:  The dust mites are cosmopolitan pyroglyphids. House dust mites, due to their very small size and translucent bodies, are barely visible to the unaided eye. A typical house dust mite measures in length. For accurate identification, one needs at least 10\u00d7 magnification. The body of the house dust mite has a striated cuticle. They feed on skin flakes from humans, and animals, and on some mold. \"Dermatophagoides farinae\" fungal food choices in 16 tested species commonly found in homes was observed \"in vitro\" to be \"Alternaria alternata\", \"Cladosporium sphaerospermum\", and \"Wallemia sebi\", and they disliked \"Penicillium chrysogenum\", \"Aspergillus versicolor\", and \"Stachybotrys chartarum\". The predators of dust mites are other allergenic mites (Cheyletus), Silverfish and pseudoscorpions. The average life cycle for a male house dust mite is 10\u201319 days. A mated female house dust mite can last up to 70 days, laying 60 to 100 eggs in the last 5 weeks of her life. In a 10-week life span, a house dust mite will produce approximately 2,000 fecal particles and an even larger number of partially digested enzyme-covered dust particles.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Just found out I'm allergic to dust mites!  The main species are cosmopolitan pyroglphids but I call them House dust mites. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've always heard of them but don't know much about them."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "they are so gross - they feed on skin flakes from people and pets, and sometimes mold. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "That does sound nasty, can people see them? Or are they microscopic?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "they are so small and have translucent bodies so they are barely visible to most people "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is there a way to get rid of them or reduce them? I'm wondering if they cause some of my family's allergy problems"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Allergies are so bad and can cause red, itchy eyes and rashes, sneezing, face swelling - is that what your family has?.  So hard to treat them."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Not all the time but yes. It's hard to pinpoint allergies because theres so many causes"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "so many different types of allergies and symtpoms can be hay fever, food, atopic skin, asthma, rashes.  Difficult to pinpoint unless you go to an allergist"}, {"role": "user", "content": "May have to do that. I think we're at least going to go through and super clean the house!"}]