Mosquito bites are a real pain

He's right,itsonly the females who bite.The males are vegetarians and spend all day feeding on nectar.

its the female mozzys that bite.. and will bite females more because of all the female hormone changes through the month , so I heard... I have a mozzy allergy when biten,, I just use all of the suggested, and cover a little at night, and stay away from rivers at night and choose a hotel with secure plastic type windows,,not wooden..!!!! they hide in those type rooms and hotels.

There aren't any mosquitoes in Turkey. They've all gone to Greece because they are bloody b@stards.

My husband usually spends all his holiday getting treatment for mozzy bites. He has just returned from Turkey without one bite having been advised to use Listerine antibacterial mouthwash in a spray bottle. He sprayed himself with it and left the open bottle by his bed at night and hey presto - no bites.

Vit B1 works well as a deterrent - apparently excreted through the skin, off-putting to the mossie. - for bites when not been careful to use the B1, TCP good, NSAID [if not asthmatic/ get wheezy/ allergic to NSAIDs], mossie coils smoking gently around your feet, Citronella candles .... the list goes on, many work - and well worth remembering! I sympathise! Ross

Poor Kay, you sound like you have an awful time with the horrible little critters.

There was a time when I was eating a lot of garlic as I love the stuff and it's meant to be good for you and I wasn't bitten at all that summer even though I sleep with my bedroom windows wide open. I had to stop as it was repelling people as much as mozzies!

oh I do so hate mozzies. if there is one in the bedroom I have to drag a duvet through to the living room and shut myself in with my guide dog until a friend can come round and locate the little beggar and kill it.

i dont know why but they tend to always go for my face... especially round my eyes and I get a terrible reaction... it looks like I have been thumped after just one bite as I had a huge black eye for the next three days from it!!!!

i dont know if it some kind of hormone thing that attracts them in some people and not others... two years ago I was walking in the nearby park next to a stream and suddenly I was mobbed by a whole cloud of them... and if it hadnt been so awful it would have been funny to see. as I walked along it was like I was wearing a mozzie helmet!!! they just would not leave me alone. yet other people were not bothered at all as they passed us. they kept it up for a full ten minutes... of sheer hell for me.

i know they are just little insects and I hate to kill anything... but a mozzie... well death to all mozzies is all I can say!!!!!!! no mercy!!!!!! MOZZIECIDE!!!!!!!

I agree with elli'. we used to live in southern UK before coming to northern Spain and the skin so soft from avon works well in both places.

The grumpyoldman almost never gets bitten on holiday & he swears it's all the ouzo or raki he drinks! He never uses any repellant either.

I don't like drinking stuff that tates like cough mixture, use repellant religiously, & do get bitten sometimes, so there may be something in it!

Citronella soap or anything with lemon extract is an effective repellent against these awful insects. I expect you can buy it at Millets/Camp and Climb type shops in UK.

Eventually though you seem to become immune from being bitten, or the bites don't swell or itch, if you spend enough time in places that are heavily populated by mosquitos.

Use a product containing deet! Used by the army ..problem solved . .

hi use skin so soft from avon the green bottle .plus the shower gel in it works wonders to keep them of u