2006-07-07 15:05:20 · 5 answers · asked by tje 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
I do have this problem and a diagnosed allergy to the saliva of a mosquito I guess it is, whatever they inject you with to keep the blood flowing while they drink.
I think that it is just an old wives tale that if you let the misquito suck uninterupted that there won't be swelling, totally not true, the bites just get bigger and the mosquito's take off with a drop more of my sweet sweet blood. My dad was the same way and strangely enough we had the same blood type. It may not mean anything to you but both of us were B pos, my mom and sister were never affected any worse than the average bite and were both type O, one pos, one neg. And it is the ravenous females that do the damage.
I had a cream, I can't remember the name of it now as it has been years, but it worked 100 times better than after bite ever did. I still get these kind of bites from time to time, but I do my best to avoid peak mosquito times odd the day and areas they prefer, I find evergreen trees to be a favorite of theirs for unknown reasons to me.
Good luck and avoid them as much as possible. Also talk to your doctor to see if you could actually be allergic to them or just overly sensitive, either way he/she could give you some kind of cream for use after getting a bite to bring down the swelling and take away the itch faster and more effectively than something over the counter for the average mosquito bite.
2006-07-07 17:46:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Me too. I think we get bitten more because we are sweeter! We swell more because we've been bitten more; the increased exposure to the irritant causes more intense reaction to it.
2006-07-07 15:10:01 · answer #2 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mosquitoes tend to like people wih certain 'tastes' in their blood. you may be just one of those people that mosquitoes like. also, certain peoples bodies just react differently to the toxins mosquitos inject, causing more swelling.
2006-07-07 15:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by stascia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to an allergist and have testing done. if you are allergic, you can get shots. in the meantime, try taking antihistamines. they will for surly help with the swelling and such, and they just might help keep the skeeters away.
2006-07-07 15:10:11 · answer #4 · answered by meatball822 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my daughter has this too...they're attracted to ur scent. try skin-so-soft, by Avon. it helps repel them better than anything we've tried.
2006-07-07 20:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋