Going on holiday and always get bitten by mosquito's. Tried all the usual remedies?
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I bought a small device that clips onto your clothing, tents, etc. It emits a sound that drives away the insects. I love the smell of Skin so Soft but I'm allergic to it. The vitamin remedy may work but one must take it a few days for it to permeate the skin. The sound device is instantaneous. It operates on a battery. It may be purchased in most camping gear departments or sporting goods stores. I am allergic to mosquito bites and this thing is terrific! It is about the size of a small hen's egg, only flatter. It weighs next to nothing.\n\n  Just a fun fact: in the forest, if you crush fiddlehead ferns and rub the juice on your skin, it's a dandy repellant!
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please tell everyone: coldcure.com, changed my life.\nwas prone to getting fever blisters for whatever reason. especially with fever and illness. \ncure: I take "nature made" zinc from wallgreens, and use it as an oral rins. this is preventitive and treatment.\n\n1) for first week rinse every day with one tablet.\n(I just put enough water in my mouth to rinse with, and then chew untill disolved, one 60mg tablet. This seems to be the quickest way. There is really no bad taste.)And make sure you rinse untill disolved, and try to rinse over any areas you feel might be infected. \n\n2)Rinse at least once a week thereafter.\n\n3)if you feel that little tingle on your lips, and you think one might be coming on, rinse once about every hour for 5 hours or so, and most importantly, a couple of times before you go to bed.\n\nI can not stress how well this has worked for me.\nI have had one reacurance of a full blown blister,over the past year,\nand that was after I had oral surgery and imediatly got the flu and was unable to rinse and treat.\n\nI have had the stomach flu twice, rinsed during and after my illnes, and did not get one.\nI have felt a couple bumps comming on, and began rinsing immediatly. the next morning they were COMPLETLY gone. It is allmost to good to be true.\n\nsimple and effective. hope this helps.
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Mosquito Bites\nAs mentioned before, only female mosquitoes bite. They are attracted by several things, including heat (infrared light), light, perspiration, body odor, lactic acid and carbon dioxide. The female lands on your skin and sticks her proboscis into you (the proboscis is very sharp and thin, so you may not feel it going in). Her saliva contains proteins (anticoagulants) that prevent your blood from clotting. She sucks your blood into her abdomen (about 5 microliters per serving for an Aedes aegypti mosquito). \n\nIf she is disturbed, she will fly away. Otherwise, she will remain until she has a full abdomen. If you were to cut the sensory nerve to her abdomen, she would keep sucking until she burst. \n\nAfter she has bitten you, some saliva remains in the wound. The proteins from the saliva evoke an immune response from your body. The area swells (the bump around the bite area is called a wheal), and you itch, a response provoked by the saliva. Eventually, the swelling goes away, but the itch remains until your immune cells break down the saliva proteins. \n\nTo treat mosquito bites, you should wash them with mild soap and water. Try to avoid scratching the bite area, even though it itches. Some anti-itch medicines such as Calamine lotion or over-the-counter cortisone creams may relieve the itching. Typically, you do not need to seek medical attention (unless you feel dizzy or nauseated, which may indicate a severe allergic reaction to the bite).
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I'd confront your neighbors and tell them the dangers of mosquito born diseases like Equine flu and how it's spreading to and killing dogs now (see link below).\n\nIf they still won't do anything, you should call your local Health Dept as some have strict laws in the Summer to not have standing water where them dang skeeters can bread.  I live in the Southeast USA where it can get get oppressively humid, and  mosquitoes can be a real problem.
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Eat healthy and you should probably increase your intake of vitamin c a day, 500mg is pretty good, you can get that from supplement.\nDrink lots of water.\nSLEEP is really really important. It helps the body to fight the virus, rejuvenate you and helps build your immune system.\nIf the people around you have the cold, I try to be as careful as possible with stuff like dishes. Make sure you use hot water and bleach when cleaning. Lysol helps kill the bacteria around the house or too.\nHope this helps ya!!
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It is possible that you are allergic to insect bites and that the stuff you use in your house increased your reaction.  I have very bad insect bites allergies, not from fleas though, but I have found that using Aloe Vera helps.  I have a live Aloe plant in my house-try your local nursery- from which I cut a whole leaf and apply the gel-like sap oozing from it on the bites, or in your case on the hives.  Keep checking with your doctor though. Hope you get better soon.
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Take a nap when you get home today, before you go out. Then take some cold medecine, but not nyquil, because it will just put you to sleep.  Some sudafed or tylenol cold should do fine. Just make sure it's "non drowsy". \n\nDrink plenty of water while you're out and for god's sake don't overdo it with alcohol.  Your body will be hard at work getting rid of the infection and breaking down medications and alcohol will just make things worse. It's never good to mix drugs.\n\nBe prepared to be really sick tomorrow. \n\nPlan B?  Call your friends and put off the celebration until this weekend when you're feeling well again.\n\nGood luck!
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An old camping trick was to chew on the end of a couple of matches.  No kidding, I know y'all think I'm pulling your leg, but seriously, the kitchen matches with the white dot on the tip of the red.  Something about the sulphur in the matches makes you secrete something that repels mosquitos.  Personally, I've never tried it, but I have a friend that swears by it.
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The Queen. Get the nastiest insect repellent ASAP and spray that mother...while there is still time....(ZZZZ-ZZZZ)..wait...(ZZZ-ZZZ)...did you hear something?
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Mosquitoes are principally nectar feeders with only the females requiring a meal of blood.  This is because the females require protein for egg development, and since the normal mosquito diet consists of nectar and fruit juice, which has no protein, most must drink blood. Males differ from females, with mouth parts not suitable for blood sucking.\n\nThe females of blood sucking species locate their victims primarily through scent. They are extremely sensitive to the carbon dioxide in exhaled breath, as well as several substances found in sweat. Some people seem to attract mosquitoes more than others. Empirical studies of mosquito bites suggest that the risk of being bitten follows an approximately negative binomial distribution. Being male, being overweight, and having type 'O' blood may increase the risk of being bitten. Mosquitoes can detect heat, so they can find warm-blooded mammals and birds very easily once they get close enough.\n\nTips on how to avoid mosquito bites:\n\n1.  removal of standing water\n2.  use of repellants\n\nMosquito repellents generally contain one of the following active ingredients: DEET, Catnip oil extract, nepetalactone, citronella, or eucalyptus oil extract. Often the best "repellent" is a fan or gentle breeze as mosquitoes do not like moving air.\n\nOther popular methods of household mosquito control include use of small electrical mats, mosquito repellent vapour, and mosquito coil, all containing a form of the chemical allethrin. Mosquito repellent candles containing Citronella oil is another method to keep mosquitoes at bay. Some lesser known methods use the cultivation of plants like wormwood or sagewort, lemon balm, lemon grass, lemon thyme and the mosquito plant (Pelargonium) which act against mosquitoes. However scientists have determined that these plants are effective only when the leaves are crushed and used.\n\nThere are several widespread theories about mosquito control such as the assertion that Vitamin B, in particular B1 Thiamine, garlic, ultrasonic devices, incense, bats, purple martins and bug zappers can be used to repel or control mosquitoes. Whether these methods are effective at deterring mosquitoes or significantly reducing mosquito populations remains disputed. Moreover, some manufacturers of "mosquito repelling" ultrasonic devices have been found to be fraudulent.\n\nAlthough bats can be prodigious consumers of insects, many of which are pests, less than 1% of a bat's diet will consist of mosquitoes; bats mostly feed on larger insects such as beetles. Bats are known carriers of rabies, so care must be taken if attempting to use bats to control insects. Similarly, bug zappers kill a wide range of flying insects including many beneficial insects as well as mosquitoes; bug zappers are not effective at controlling mosquito populations.\n\nSome newer mosquito traps, like Coleman' Mosquito Deleto or The Mosquito Magnet emit a plume of carbon dioxide together with other mosquito attractants such as chemical scents, warmth, water vapor and sounds. By mimicking a mammal, these factors draw female mosquitoes toward the trap, where they are typically sucked into a net or holder where they collect. According to the American Mosquito Control Association, "these devices will, indeed, trap and kill measurable numbers of mosquitoes," but their effectiveness in any particular case will depend on a number of factors such as the size and species of the mosquito population and the type and location of the breeding habitat. The relative effectiveness of these newer mosquito traps is still being studied.\n\nSimple remedy on mosquito bites:\n\nThe itchiness of mosquito bites is often treated with calamine lotion, which may have a soothing effect, although its effectiveness is not medically proven. Other insect bite relief sticks such as After Bite are commercially available. Oral or topically applied antihistamines, and diphenhydramine in particular,
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I am not sure where you live, but you can never get rid of them.  You can, however, control them by regular pest control measures.  I realize you are only renting the house, but I do not think you can hold the property owner responsible for the bites.  The things are just out there in massive numbers.  I would suggest you look into alternate housing if possible, especially with the children in the household.  I had a brown recluse bite about a month ago and am still battling them in my house.  I have a bad infestation of them.  I feel for you.  God bless.
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Calemine lotion or any other cool lotion.  Also try draping a wet cloth over the affected area, running cold water over it or rubbing with an ice-cube.  You must avoid scratching - hard to do but you'll likely scratch the bites until they bleed.  I'm suffereing with the same thing at the moment - just had a cool bath which has helped.
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I live in Asia, and the TV advertisements teach people to clean and dry out any container holding water at least twice a week. People here are very wary of mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. It's a real problem.\n\nBut, keep thinking ~ you never know what you might invent! You obviously have a creative mind...\n\ngood luck...
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Soak in a warm bath with epsom salts also take some tylenol or other OTC pain reliever. Go easier on yourself next time. Don't know of anything you can eat but keep drinking fluids(especially water to rehydrate)
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Use a shampoo with Tea Tree Oil in it - always...\nThis should reduce risk if re-infestation.\nWhen head lice are found, it's important that everyone in the household decontaminates at the same time - it doesn't work if one of you leaves it till next week!
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bug repellent.  citronella candles work.  OFF if you are willing to use DEET.  Burt's Bees Herbal Insect Repellent if you are not.  I use that , and it actually works.  It is made of Lemongrass oil, Citronella Oil and Rosemary Oil.  It is highly concentrated and very oily, but I have seen mosquitos literally make right and left turns when they get a whiff of it.  Good luck
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If you think its because of pollen or dust, then you need to wear a nasal mask whenever you leave home.  Keep your windows closed if the wind keeps blowing.  Ensure that your bed & pillow covers are always free from dust.  Drink ginger-lemon-honey tea 3 times a day. The recipe? Here goes\nHeat a mug of water in a pan.  Add 1/4 tsp ground fresh ginger paste, a pinch of salt, 0.25 gms of turmeric powder and bring to a boil.  Strain into the mug and add 2 tsps of fresh lemon juice and two tsp honey. Sip hot and get rid of throat troubles.  Good luck and give me a feed back if it works.