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My 16-month theanine self-experiment

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817 points dynm | 3 comments | 09 Mar 25 03:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.502s | source
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grumpy-de-sre ◴[09 Mar 25 08:49 UTC] No.43307383[source]▶
For anyone looking for a sleep supplement, before you go down the rabbit hole of Theanine, Mg, etc. Try an OTC Azelastine or Fluticasone nasal spray for a month.

Turns out my chronic poor quality, restless sleep was a dust mite allergy that I should have figured out and treated a decade ago. Would wake up with a stuffy nose and very dry mouth but didn't have too many issues during the day. I was allergic to my bed.

Been using antihistamines, and a dehumidifier for several months now and sleeping better than I have in years. Given how extremely common mite allergies are there's got to be a lot of folks with undiagnosed issues here.

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strontian ◴[09 Mar 25 16:17 UTC] No.43310532[source]▶
nice! I recently got dust mites out of my home completely, and it was a miraculous upgrade to my health, including several symptoms that are outside the definitions of allergic asthma/eczema/rhinitis.

One important thing people are missing about dust mite allergy is the many ways in which they directly damage your immune system and body, outside of the usual frame of "allergies" which is based on type 2 hypersensitivity.

This article is a great introduction to the harms they cause at the molecular level: https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(18)30848-0/ful...

I also wrote a free guide to help people get dust mites out of their house:

https://dustmiteguide.com

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1. jrgoff ◴[11 Mar 25 02:33 UTC] No.43328593[source]▶
I tried to send a message to your the feedback email address on your dustmite guide site but gmail told me it was undeliverable because the address was not found.

What I emailed about was asking what you meant by biweekly for washing bedding - is that twice a week or every other week?

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2. strontian ◴[11 Mar 25 21:31 UTC] No.43337231[source]▶
thanks for letting me know my email fwding is not working. Twice a week. Be sure to wash as hot as your machine can do. I found that the highest setting on my front loading LG washer does 158f and is more effective than the next hottest setting.
3. strontian ◴[11 Mar 25 21:44 UTC] No.43337380[source]▶
In the early days, populations of eggs and protonymphs are high and perhaps you haven't learned to control humidity in different weather conditions, washing 2x a week will be effective imho.

But if you can maintain low humidity for a longer periods, the dust mite populations in your home will go down and frequent washing will be less important.