沖縄県での寝具のダニ除去の試み

概要

論文の詳細を見る
The subtropical climate of Okinawa Prefecture with high temperature and high humidity enables mites to breed easily on house dust. The question arises as to whether it is possible to reduce the density of mites in bedding such as the Japanese mattress "shiki-futon" by domestic cleaning. Toward this, vacuum cleaning on "shiki-futon" was carried out every week. To determine the number of mites, dust from 13 of "shiki-futon" was collected every month for a year. At the end of the one-year study, the number of mites was decreased to below half in nine of the 13 "shiki-futon" studied. When the mite density was high at the beginning, the number of mites decreased significantly. However, if the number of mites was reduced to below 100 mites per square meter of "shiki-futon", the significant effect of vacuum cleaning was not clearly demonstrated, especially when the population of mites was higher on the bedroom floor and/or in another bedding in contact with the "shiki-futon". The average number of mites in "shiki-futon" was reduced gradually, but it was increased during the rainy season (from April to June) in spite of domestic cleaning.
日本衛生動物学会の論文
1997-09-15