Why Do We Need Mosquitos?
Why Do We Need Mosquitos?
- Do your best not to scratch that itch. Doing so will aggravate the irritation, making it itchier and more prone to infection.
Take care of the bite immediately by using rubbing alcohol, or plain water.
- For those who have a severe reaction to the bites and look as if they’ve caught chicken pox, apply an antihistamine cream or lotion. Especially effective are ointments containing a combination of an antihistamine, analgesic, and corticosteroid as this can relieve pain and itching as well.
- If an infection develops from the bites, or from scratching them, see your physician immediately.
- Make a paste of baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) mixed with warm water. One tablespoon to one pint of water is a good ratio to use.
- Gently apply to the affected area. Use your clean fingers, or a cotton swab, or a Popsicle stick to apply.
- Leave on a few minutes, then wash off with warm water.
- Make a thick paste of cornflour and apple cider vinegar.
- Gently apply the paste to the affected area.
- Allow to dry. It will alleviate the itching by the time it has dried.
- Wash off using warm water.
- Try adding distilled Witch hazel to Calamine lotion as an effective pain relief and itch soother for mosquito bites.
- Rub a wet aspirin over the affected area. Naturally, do not use this method if the person is allergic to aspirin.
- Rub some toothpaste over the the bite area. This can work like a charm to relieve itching.
Lemons/Limes
- Cut lemon or lime into pieces and rub gently on the affected area, or just squirt a bit of juice on it. Citric acid has some itch-relieving properties.
- Wiping the slime from your skin too early will alter or stop the treatment.
- Rub the sap of an onion over the bite.
- Crack an egg and cook the egg for your camp meal. Inside the shell of the egg you will find a flexible membrane. Cover the bite with the membrane and let dry. As it contracts it will draw out some of the toxins.
- Use your breakfast oatmeal. Oatmeal is renowned for its anti-itching properties, so make a small paste of it and apply to the bite area. Allow to dry, then waste off.
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Landing on the skin of the victim, they initially apply its saliva to act as a painkiller, to mask its bloodsucking activity. The itch itself is caused by the mosquito’s saliva – an anticoagulant.
Wow! Didn’t know this! I like all the info you provided for relief of the itch. You’d think that someone who is camping would have at LEAST one of these products. You continue to educate everyone w/these blogs, Cathy.
Good stuff!
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Chris
I easily get annoyed by the buzzing of my attacker, and I thought it would be fitting to write about her. Especially because of my daughter under attack all the time.
Thanks!!
Her meaning MOSQUITO!!! HEE, HEE!!!
This was needed,I live in a place which has mosquitoes all around,this will help me a lot..u have a nice and a very informative place..
Alpana
My passion is to be helpful! Glad this will be helpful for you.
Have you noticed how some people don’t get bit?? I seem to be one of them, we can be out photographing something and Phyllis and others will be getting bit but not me???? Hmm does that mean my blood doesn’t taste good???? lol I never knew that they have been around for so long , really amazing!!!
http://jpweddingphotograpy.blogspot.com/2011/07/taking-pictures-or-making-images-pro-or.html
Some great tips! The hard part is getting the kids not to itch them! Even my husband has a hard time at that.
You have such an amazing knack for household remedies girl! Passing this along to others, since we’re in mosquito season
Thanks, Deb! Hope it is useful, it not I have many more remedies to rid of her!!! LOL. Jim, wonder why you don’t get attacked and Phyllis does? Do you have any blood? LOL!
Oh, Cathy, these remedy recommendations are fantastic! I am a mosquito magnet – they seek me out and plunder my skin every summer if I’m outdoors at the wrong time. I am so relieved to know of all these ways I can stop the irritating itch and will share with my daughter so she can be prepared to treat my granddaughter if she gets “poked by a proboscis” this summer.
Blessings!
Dear Martha,
You are welcome! We use them all the time. I am in the beginning stages of developing a natural bug spray. We always have water in the wooded area past our fenced in yard and my daughter can’t be on our deck more then a few minutes before getting attacked.
– Cathy
It’s rather funny that just at the moment I was about to go outside to cool off I clicked your link. My daughter than reminds me of the citronella candle, I had bought to try and keep mosquitoes out of the house while we suffer through this heatwave with no AC.
I like your suggestions and I may have to try several of them. The kids don’t seem to be affected as badly by the bites as me. I will itch myself to death. For some reason bloodsuckers, be it mosquitoes or fleas, just love my blood. Must be all the garlic lol.
Dear Jenni,
Sorry you don’t have AC during a heatwave. Your daughter is right about suggesting to use the citronella candle. We use these remedies because of having water ran off behind our house this brings a lot of mosquitos.
– Cathy
Thanks Cathy! How interesting is this, when I’ve AWAYS wondered why God made mosquitoes!
Like everything else, they serve a purpose. But I’d have never thunk!
Dear Debra,
Believe me mosquitos aren’t my favorites either. We get eaten alive, ever summer. I am developing a natural bug spray to sell to the general public. I came up with this idea because my daughter gets attacked badly!
– Cathy
Great post with some great info. Btw..I don’t think there’s anything baking soda can’t do!