Comments on: First Mosquito Bite

By: MosquitoMagnet

MosquitoMagnet — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:23:43 +0000

I am convinced that mosquitoes are demons. Some people think I over react to the presence, or even possibility of the presence, of mosquitoes. But you know? When you’ve landed in the hospital due to too many mosquito bites, you smack at anything that flies.

By: Koo

Koo — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:02:08 +0000

Well, all this sounds awful and just what I keep experiencing! Right now I am sitting at my desk with no shoes on as i cannot get a shoe on my right foot because a bloody mosquito has bit my foot….the one place I always forget to put repellent! My most extreme reaction went from the heel of my foot to the top of my knee, the swelling fully wrapping my leg, some crazy dr thought I had flesh eating disease! I live in BC, Canada and the mosquitos in the suburbs are HUGE and awful, but in the city apparantly non existent although when I am in the city they seem to find me! I have discovered over the years with myself and my 3 year old daughter having these severe reactions that there is nothing to prevent and stop it…if they want your blood bad enough they will bite you! I am an avid pickle eater myself and they still love me! Short of reguklar baths in DEET I think we are all out of luck! Good luck finding a place in this world without mosquitos! I hope you will share if you do!

By: Glowering

Glowering — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:26:02 +0000

Hi I was reading all the comments and like you I have a hate for mosquitos. When it starts to hit dark time in spring and summer here in Washington state. I loath hearing someone saying lets go outside and drive our RC’s or why don’t you start that bbq up. Mosquitos enter my mind, I just think about all the itching and how big the bites get. I literally will freak out if a bug flies by or I hear buzzing by my ear. I then with or without knowing will continue to swipe at my clothes making sure some undectected mosquito isn’t sitting and pondering when to bite. I notice that when I do get a bite I feel there little stinger going in. I might just be crazy though. (laughing) I swear I feel it go in like a tiny needle. Usually when I have that feeling I am right and there is a mosquito sucking away at my precious blood. I end up smacking or slapping myself hard to make sure they are dead. Continuing my dance of the mosquito.I call them Vampires. Lately though I have been getting bites in the day time. Usually in an area where it is shaded or have trees. Even when I go disc golfing there on my hands. I think I read somewhere that most of the time it is the females that are biting for the blood. They need the blood to produce eggs and feed their babies. =( What can one do considering this is a species of insect that has been around for millions of years. I at the moment am sporting two major bites on my wrist one from yesterday and one I got only twenty minutes before finding this forum. I have type O blood and wondered if that has anything to do with it. I know there are researched trying to find what is the chemical balance between people that makes the scent stronger than the other.

By: eolai

eolai — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:29:23 +0000

I’ve held back on the story of the worst attack I sufferered, as in the most number of bites in just a matter of mnutes.

It wasn’t in Kansas City, but it wasn’t too far away. And it was very funny because of the extreme nature of it, because of my attempts to protect myself, because of the homemade remedy I was then given, but mostly because of the specific location where it occurred.

And I’m still not telling you any of those details - yet. Because it’s part of my Cycle Across America from a section that hasn’t been published yet - and I don’t want to ruin it for the four people who are following it.

By: Primal Sneeze

Primal Sneeze — Wed, 16 May 2007 05:40:36 +0000

Please don’t tell me what works for you. Reverse psychology at its finest.

I got a job in the Camargue once. The mosquitoes there travel in swarms like locusts, except unlike locusts, they don’t move on. My cure was to get to hell out of there.

So come home, lad. The only place you’ll be bitten here is in the pocket.

By: pomegranate.

pomegranate. — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:34:42 +0000

oh man, after this post i saw an Oprah advertisement for her show saying “Why do mosquitoes like some people more than others?!”

By: eolai

eolai — Wed, 16 May 2007 02:53:50 +0000

Dan O - Hmmm. I already eat a lot of dill pickles - I’m told that’s odd for an irish man but I acquired the taste when cycling in central Europe. I’ll increase my uptake and report back. But just an ounce? I don’t believe that for a moment. I’ll try a pint. Put a Guinness head on that!

Pomegranate - You know I dip everything else in barbeque sauce and that never occurred to me!

Sheri - Thank you. And that’s why I take every bite, an affirmation of how sweet I am, as a boost to my self-esteem.

By: sheri

sheri — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:42:51 +0000

You are obviously very, very, very, very-very, very (very!) very sweet =]

By: pomegranate.

pomegranate. — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:00:38 +0000

blink blink.

eating..match tips?
in kc i hope you at least dipped ‘em in barbeque sauce or something.

By: Dan O

Dan O — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:32:53 +0000

Dill Pickles!! Eat Dill Pickles or drink an ounce or so of pickle juice. They will leave you alone. Give it a try.

See you Thurs!

By: eolai

eolai — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:32:28 +0000

Oh Sassy it’s not that bad - I mean if I reacted to garlic with explosive diarrhoea, I’d be beside myself. Literally.

Martha, I am regularly used as mosquito bait myself, as I haven’t seen anybody attract them more.

I’d say I’m average to unremarkable with chiggers, and I now avoid all areas where ticks reign ever since a mass gruesome assault they made on me during my favourite five mile walk in Shawnee Mission Park a few years ago.

Mosquitos I hate because it’s war and they hurt me. But I must confess that at the end of summer when they are clinging on for life I have spared many of them in the house because I feel sorry for them.

Ticks, though, they disgust me. I will burn their remains, their whole families and their favourite books.

By: martha

martha — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:11:10 +0000

some folks are particularly tasty to mosquitos. when i was a child, my brothers and i would persuade my mom to sit on the porch with us in the summer twilight, because the mosquitos much preferred her to us. another reason for a mother’s day gift!
i’m curious, eolai. how do you get along with ticks and chiggers?

By: sassywho

sassywho — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:52:10 +0000

Jeez, you do have it bad. I hear northern california does not have bugs, but they don’t have the nice humidity either.

By: eolai

eolai — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:44:45 +0000

Thanks Sass. Alas I react badly to antihistamine. And topically afterwards on the monster bites Benadryl has had not a great impact.

Plus I tend to average 10 bad bites a day, only staying so low because after a 25-bite assault I tend to hide under a blanket in a closet for a day or two. So trying to take it before I get bit would mean drinking it as much as tea?

I think I made real progress last year with being able to cope with the itching, though I realize it’s quite possible that I didn’t in reality. But I do like telling myself I did.

“After-Bite” has been effective on some bites, but only if used within 2 or 3 seconds of being bitten. Thereafter it’s usless. And it’s tricky to apply when I’m usually being bitten by several mosquitos at once and trying to bat more away. So I’m trying the brain power (or delusion) again this final summer.

By: sassywho

sassywho — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:14:43 +0000

unsolicited advice warning:

it’s an allergy of sort, basically you have a hyper-histamine reaction, if you can tolerate it Benadryl should help and it will work best if you take it before you are bit. Otherwise you can use a topical benadryl and that will relieve some of the itching/swelling but not as much.