Tiger Mosquitos - UK

The little biters love me so over the years I've tried everything!
Piezoelectric 'clickers', antihistamines and steroid cream are my usual armory.
Almost all forms of repellent have proven less effective than covering up, something you just cant do sometimes.
 
GPW said:
As noted above it will be the sugars they are after, it's quite possible to have a ketogenic diet with meat. Generally I didn't get bitten much but after reducing refined sugars and carbs I don't really get bitten at all and the odd rare bite is smaller.
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Minxy Girl said:
Reduce sugar!!!!! :Eeek: Are you trying to take away my only vice! :cry: I don't think I could live without my Morrisons doughnut fix every now and then! :crying:
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And I’m normally in holiday mode when bitten. I cannot go to France and visit the patisserie and boulangerie just for hubby who will insist on his !
 
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Coca Cola can also help with bee or wasp stings and mosquito bites. The acidic content in Coke helps destroy the venom that's left on skin by a bee or wasp sting and it also provides relief for mosquito bites because it destroys the insect saliva that causes the allergic reaction.
 
Am I the only one that uses a hairdryer in anger to stop the itching?! :unsure:
 
Scotsblood said:
The little biters love me so over the years I've tried everything!
Piezoelectric 'clickers', antihistamines and steroid cream are my usual armory.
Almost all forms of repellent have proven less effective than covering up, something you just cant do sometimes.
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Thinking I was safe with a t-shirt and shorts and all exposed skin covered in Jungle Formula, we went for a walk along the local canal. We sat down for a breather and in seconds, got 3 bites on my t-shirt covered back.
Covering up doesn’t always work, ive had bites through jeans too!
If we go anywhere near fresh water, I cover myself everywhere with repellant.
 
Allanm said:
Thinking I was safe with a t-shirt and shorts and all exposed skin covered in Jungle Formula, we went for a walk along the local canal. We sat down for a breather and in seconds, got 3 bites on my t-shirt covered back.
Covering up doesn’t always work, ive had bites through jeans too!
If we go anywhere near fresh water, I cover myself everywhere with repellant.
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Have resorted to Craghoppers Nosilife clothing for when in the wild parts of the great outdoors, seems so far to defeat them!
Wife didn't believe you could get bitten through jeans till she was unfortunate to watch one get her on the knee a couple of years ago. She now swears by deet based repellents but they don't seem to work for me.
 
psyfried said:
Coca Cola can also help with bee or wasp stings and mosquito bites. The acidic content in Coke helps destroy the venom that's left on skin by a bee or wasp sting and it also provides relief for mosquito bites because it destroys the insect saliva that causes the allergic reaction.
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we live by two rivers on the edge of the new forest and there's plenty of mozzys about. The locals use vinegar as a repellent and to treat bites, which works well. If you are really hardcore and out in the woods, uric acid from urine also works
 
Best repellant for me a few years ago was 100% Deet ( can’t remember the name) it came in an orange plastic bottle.
it stung a little when you put it on and took the numbers off the bezel of my watch!
I bought it after a really bad reaction to a bite on my calf that swelled so much I couldn’t walk or drive for 3 days.
The stuff kept everything away from me but made my eyes water when it got really humid.
I wouldn’t use it again, but I didn’t get bitten when I did use it.
 
We keep a detailed inventory of the van contents. The anti-beast list looks like this:

Incognito insect repellent
Smidge insect repellent
Repel Once
tropical repellent
X-pel
mosquito bands
antihistamine ointment
corticosteroid ointment
Eurax anti-itch ointment
12v mozzie zapper coil
mozzie zapper tabs (Bengal strength)
manual fly swatters
electric fly swatter

Hopefully we have covered all the bases...

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Cat53 said:
Letter in the Telegraph today advocates blasting the bite with hot air from the hairdryer. Says it works for him every time!
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The hot teaspoon trick is supposed to work too. I've never tried it though.
 
Minxy Girl said:
Must be more to it than that ... me and hubby eat the same stuff and they very, very rarely touch him ... it's a blessing really 'cause if he does get a bite, no matter how small it is, you'd think he was dying! ::bigsmile:
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Yes, I'm sceptical about the diet thing -- like those who say taking vitamin B1 helps protect against bites.

I think the answer is a lot more complicated. Two of us on the same diet: one gets bitten to buggery (excuse the language), the other suffers no bites. Move to a different part of the UK and the previously bitten one escapes with no bites and the previously non-bitten one gets bitten.

I think at play here is DNA and blood group versus local insect population. Something similar to the old adage about eating local honey to protect against hay fever.
 
MyrtleGuru said:
The hot teaspoon trick is supposed to work too.
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Does this follow the same principal of the hairdryer method that I use?

Although I can't help thinking it's simply killing the nerve endings though, hence the itching stops for six hours at a time... :rolleyes:
 
Sundowners said:
Should that be B12??????
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Both have been suggested (and Marmite, etc.), but I'm not sure there is any evidence for either.

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RogerThat said:
Does this follow the same principal of the hairdryer method that I use?

Although I can't help thinking it's simply killing the nerve endings though, hence the itching stops for six hours at a time... :rolleyes:
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Yes, same principle, just applying heat in a different way (more likely to have a spoon handy than a hairdryer, I suppose).

I don't think it actually makes any physical change, just fools your nervous system by overstimulating it.
 
MyrtleGuru said:
Both have been suggested (and Marmite, etc.), but I'm not sure there is any evidence for either.
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I come up in little red volcanoes and itch for a week and am a magnet for mossies and they make any holiday a pointless waste of life and make it it not worth going or living. But steady on Marmite really, that would ruin my holiday ?
 
SteadyandGail said:
I come up in little red volcanoes and itch for a week and am a magnet for mossies and they make any holiday a pointless waste of life and make it it not worth going or living. But steady on Marmite really, that would ruin my holiday ?
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... you could try rubbing it on as a repellant rather than eating it?

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We were told of B12 by a Belgium on our way up to Scandinavia. My wife is on B12 for health reasons and never gets bitten but used to, so perhaps there is some truth in it.

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GPW said:
I don't think anyoe's going to believe me but I'll just put this out there:

One's diet can influence your attractiveness to bites of all insects from ticks, fleas and mozzies. If you go for a meat free Ketogenic diet there's very little attractive wafting off you for the insects to be attacted to.
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Mozzies etc are attracted to CO2 in exhaled breath, not body odours.
 
since i have given up sex i havent been bitten, just saying.............:ROFLMAO:
 
pappajohn said:
Mozzies etc are attracted to CO2 in exhaled breath, not body odours.
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.... so what you're saying is it depends on how stinky or not your breath is! :p
 
Here we just use plug-ins, one in each room. Very effective all night long even though the windows are fully open.

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They're about £6 each and the refills about £3, one lasts the whole season
 
CazPaul said:
If you are in a bad mosquito area then suck on a clove of garlic and put a clove between your feet and socks, let it seep into your skin.
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No mate, you got that wrong, but you will never get bitten by vampires, so that's a result!!

So you live alone do you? Especially when you take your boots off ?
 

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