Mosquito bites are a real pain

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

If you do some google research the answers are there. My wife used to get bitten till she took the supplements I do, now she does not.I would add I have taken supplements since I was 4years old.
Most mozzies are now immune to propriertary repellants.

Do the people who have suggested Vit B6 usually have bites? My partner never gets bitten and takes nothing whereas I get bitten to bits and they swell to gigantic proportions and I sometimes have to go to the docs for anti-biotics. My doc says I should 'sleep next to someone who tastes better'. He has no deterrent for me. I'm going to Egypt in April and am terrified I will look like something out of a horror film if I get attacked by Mozzies. Has anyone got a foolproof deterrent? Preferably someone who used to get bitten but now doesn't!

We have travelled around Turkey Tenerife Mexico and Costa Rica, with no bites. We put this down to the B6 mentioned below we use a VitaminB Complex and vitaminE Complex and Garlic.. I take these the year round the wife takes them 3 weeks before the holiday and during the holiday.
Most of the blighters are immune to the normal relpellants but Citronella as a spray or an oil or candle works well as well.

Try some Lava Heavy Duty hand cleaner. You can get it on EBay. It contains volcanic minerals and that will calm down the bites.

Marky said "The mosquito is the most lethal killer known to man. They are the most resilient race on the planet. Whatever you throw at them, the next generations are immune."

Well what to do about the good old mosquito then. How about genetically altering them so they can't breed and basically making the species extinct. Would that be a bad thing?