What works best for extreme allergies due to mosquito type bites?

Question

I have an allergy to mosquito bites. I have gotten at least 5 mosquito bits since yesterday, and all of them have swollen up to the size of a golf ball(for lack of a better comparison.)one of them has actually swollen and gone back down and swollen back up again. ive tried a lot of things but i was hoping someone on here would know what works the best.

Answer 1

Take benedryal and use rubbing alcohol on the bites. There are fancy bug bite ointments you can get at the store, but the main ingredient in all of them is alcohol.
Cold showers can help in relieving the itch. Keep your finger nails short and clean at all times. When you scratch too much and cut the bug bite with your nails bacteria can get in.
Try using a soft cloth to scratch wih rather than nails.

Answer 2

I have suffered with severe allergies (dust, pollen, cats, dogs, horses etc) and hay fever during the spring and summer months every year for the past 10 years.

My eyes would literally be swollen sometimes to the point of not being able to see or leave the house. My nose would constantly be sniffing and dripping and running and itchy. The symptoms list goes on - I would feel so tired and run down and awful from it all, the whole summer.

I have spent thousands on every remedy I could find - either form my doctor, over the counter medication, from the internet, natural, homeopathic, you name it, I have tried it. And nothing has really made much of an impact.

I found homeopathy helped alleiviate the symptoms but not a massive great deal.

Then I read that dairy really contributes to allergies and hayfever.

So I cut dairy out. I was drinking up to 10 cups of tea with cows milk in a day. But now I drink my tea with soya milk, I actually prefer the taste of soya now!

So anyway, that was over 10 days agom and I haven't taken a single hay fever or allergy remedy since!!

I am literally a changed person, I can now wear eye makeup again because my eyes aren't tearing and running and swollen, I can't believe something so simple and cheap has completely turned my life around in terms of allergies and hayfever!!

I still eat cheese and yoghurts and ice cream in moderation. I haven't completely gone loactose free. But I seriously, seriously recommend you give this a go. My family and friends can't believe it;s me, I seem like a new person these days. I feel like one too, to be honest!

Good luck xx

Answer 3

benedryl for the itching and swelling works well

you probably want to invest in a good mosquito repelant if you are going to be outside at dusk or near the woods or water

an old family remedy is to use your finger nail to make an x shaped indentation over the center of the bite... push your nail against the bite for 5 seconds one way then 5 seconds the other way... it wont help the swelling, but it does help with the itching

Answer 4

Whenever I get bitten the spots usually swell up. A few years ago my sister (who's a paramedic) told me to take Benadryl. Ever since then, I always take it and usually the swelling goes down AND it doesn't itch. I usually get drowsy when I take Benadryl, but it might not affect you that way.

Answer 5

well for the swelling I would use ice. I would take benedryl, and I would rub a slice of raw onion on the bites for the itch, it really does work.

Answer 6

Rubbing alcohol it burn *a lot* but it dry es it up pretty quickly and stops the itching. good luck

Answer 7

the generic form of bynidril works

Answer 8

try taking an antihistamine. you can get lt at a drug store