Thanks @Skandi. Good to know😕 I think everyone probably gets bitten, but only the unfortunate react.I @Lyn. Does he keep a sock on the embarrassing bit?
No, we don’t know of any babies these days. 😀
i get the occasional gnat bite through the night as we have the window wide open, they’re just tiny white bumps that don’t last but since using the Skin So Soft I don’t often get them now.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Horse flies are the ones that bring me out in improbably huge lumps. The best defence for those seems to be covering all skin as loosely as possible but they can bite through, even thick denim which I usually wear when I'm strimming the nettle clumps.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I was sitting out in the garden last week having lunch, felt something bite my right elbow, ouch, looked it was the tiniest black shiny beetle, about twice the size of a pin head, aplied after bit stuff, it still itches, and red lump. I got bitten by a Horse fly about 6 years ago, got cellulitus, went to the locel ED, Dr said another hour, I would have been an inpatient on IV antibiotics, instead of oral. Am allergic to ant bites, really bad reaction, especially the gold ones. Must have high histamine levels.
"They" say that mozzies are more attracted to certain blood types than others. It is also said that vitamin B6 makes the blood less attractive, I don't know if either of those statements is true. All I know is that they love me but leave my OH alone, is that fair?
I am like those cartoons of 'smelly' characters with flies above their heads. I get bitten by most things and if I go for a walk anywhere in a 'country' environment, I get a column of flies above my head. My kids think it's quite amusing. I'm not smelly honest! But I read that there's a link to CO2 as well...so the more CO2 you put out, potentially the more attractive you become to certain insects.
"They" say that mozzies are more attracted to certain blood types than others. It is also said that vitamin B6 makes the blood less attractive, I don't know if either of those statements is true. All I know is that they love me but leave my OH alone, is that fair?
Would anyone be prepared to disclose their blood group and say yes or no to bites?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
O neg and very biteable apparently tho that seems to be lessening (she said, tempting sod's law). I take a daily antihistamine in the season and have cortisone cream handy in the kitchen. I get chiggers too which OH doesn't. He's A+.
The first time I was bitten by a horsefly in Belgium I came up with lumps the size of tennis balls. Painful and itchy. Not as bad these days. Mozzies go for me too but prefer Possum when she's here - O+.
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i get the occasional gnat bite through the night as we have the window wide open, they’re just tiny white bumps that don’t last but since using the Skin So Soft I don’t often get them now.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The first time I was bitten by a horsefly in Belgium I came up with lumps the size of tennis balls. Painful and itchy. Not as bad these days. Mozzies go for me too but prefer Possum when she's here - O+.