Mosquito bites are a real pain

Well I feel for you. Every year I go away and seem to be a feast for mosquitoes.

I took VitaminB (thiamine) two weeks before I went to Turkey last year and did not get one bite.
It needs time to saturate your skin and female mosquitoes can't stand the smell, although it's completely unscented to humans. (female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite, for thier eggs).

Hope this helps for next time.

god know how you feel
went to turkey last year with partner and ten and two year old sons.no body but me was bitten !!!! after first week I counted over twenty,they were itching and weeping.was going to go to site doctor but found out from others it was a twenty pound consultation and twenty pounds for cream!!!! we got cab instead to local chemist and for this and cream was a total of ten pounds
moral to this story be prepared,and I will have to be as going back again this year mad yeah !!!

My Husband and myself have just moved to the Dominican Republic, my husband always gets bitten by the little beggars I am normaly ok, we had been told about garlic tablets and vitamine B6
so he started to take it 1 month before we moved.
They loved it he was bitten all over and was quite ill for a few days as he reacts badly to them
then we were told to try Avon skin so soft bath oil !!!!!!!!
you mix 1 third surgical spirit 2 thirds bath oil find a spray to put it in and away you go.
we have been using it for 4 days now and so far so good the only down side will be wearing oil in the Sun hope this helps

Sue

GandalfQL: Hi there, thanks for the tip. I'll try that the next time I have a chance to go somewhere hot and sunny, although to be honest I got so fed up with the bites it may well be some time. If anyone else has a chance to try this out, please let me know how you get on.

My wife and I have been to Turkey Tenerife and Mexico and where others get bitten, I do not nor does my wife.Most of the normal repellants do not work, if you ask the residents they will tell you the truth, the little things are now immune.
I have been taking Garlic VitaminB and VitaminE , for about 30 years. I came across a webblog about mozzies which confirmed they do not like Garlic, or the other compounds which are linked to the skin.My wife now takes these three supplements two weeks before the holiday and during the Holiday and no bites.Try it and let me know .

1% hydrocortisone (get it from your pharmacy) will do for the itch or, if you prefer, you can also use red Tiger Balm, which smells far nicer. Reducing the swelling is a bit trickier - ibuprofen works for me if I've got loads of bites or you can use a teabag - the tannins in the tea are an astringent (witch hazel will also work - same principle)

Don't think that coming back the the UK will solve your mosquito problems though - the wet weather means that the little sods have been breeding like wildfire :-(

I too have suffered like you and was chatting to a friend today who suffers the same and he told me that on Monday he had started the lemon diet. What he and his wife have done is eat a lemon a day either squeezed in hot water or whatever way you like I suppose. I am going to try it, as the blood sucking little freaks are doing my head in...lol I have a large garden with a lot of bushes and hedges...so as soon as I go out they target me and I mean target me. To date nothing seems to work other than going out with a sweeping brush before I cut the hedges to frighten them off...yeh I know!!
I can sort of see the science behind the act, especially if you consider that garlic wafts from your pores after a couple of cloves. I will wait and see myself, but it doesn't seem an unpleasant solution does it and leaves your body chemical free I suppose?
I will try it for a couple of weeks and then see how it goes...Love Nicky

Eat marmite for two weeks before you go and while you are there - it works!!

Mitigator Rules!
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Thank you all for your comments. I have arrived back in the UK now and I must say have never been so glad to be back. Yes, the weather out there was wonderful, but the bites made it a nightmare. True - I could have been better prepared and on the second last day of my holiday a lady gave me some antihistamine tablets that effectively stopped the itching. Some citronella based body spray helped keep the little gits (mostly) away from me - although to be honest they still had a go, they were quite aggressive and rather large. Even the locals were complaining about them!

After this experience I'll be taking every precaution in the future. The final count was actually somewhere around 50-60 bites. I don't know the exact number because it was getting difficult to count and they were starting to merge!

Certirizine and a general anthistamine cream work wonders in aiding insect bites.They deal with the inflamation and the itching,the cream is also very soothing.They are very cost effective and easy to purchase from supermarkets,pharmacies and airports.

To help prevent bites you could try taking garlic capsules orally,which have been reported in being successful.Citronella oil is also another natural method,it's normally used in candles or body roll ons etc.I personally use a product called Mosi-gaurd,it lasts 8 hours and comes in a lot of different forms,from a spray, a roll on, to a body stick.

I work in pharmacy and sell a lot of these products.The repellent that you choose to use should be applied to your pulse points,which is normally where they strike first.Start from your head ,go around the back of your neck down towards the rest of your body.

Yeah they're in the UK too. I occaisionally get an influx of them going after my guinea pigs.
Best bet then is to use one guinea pig as bait, and when the blood sucking leaches try to approach my babies, DOWN COMES THE RIGHTEOUS FLY SWATTER OF DEATH AND FURY!


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Other than that, RAID seems to work on most icky creepy insects, especially ex boyfriends.