What's the best way to avoid mosquito bites?

Question

Hey Guys!
i'm travelling to kenya next week, and i hear that it is a bit damp over there at the moment, so mozis are rampant.
I'm working there for 2 weeks, and will be out in the bush.
Any ideas of how to keep the mosquitos at bay?
i hear vitamin B and garlic tablets are good. any feedback?

Answer 1

i was on an island in the carribeans i met a man that was a marine, had been 4 20 yrs! the mosquitos on the island were awful! he told me that he takes Brewers Yeast, has for yrs. he said he was never bit, and hes been all over the world! he also told me that he ran out one time over seas, he was going home 2wks later so he figured hed just wait until he got home 2 get more, well he got ate up! so one wk b4 returning home he had his wife ship him some! he wasnt bit after retaking the brewers yeast! so i guess u could try that! also use repellent like deet! hope this helps! enjoy ur trip!

Answer 2

while a woman mosquito feeds for a blood meal, numerous issues happen. First, one among those anesthetic is injected, accompanied with the aid of an anticoagulant, the two from glands that are break away the digestive tract. Then, the blood meal is ingested into the gut of the mosquito the place enzymes degrade the cells. The blood meal is a prerequisite for the female to place eggs. contained in terms of malaria, the parasite is in a position to actual stay and multiply interior the mosquito and then return and forth from the gut to different areas of the anatomy the place this is injected with the anticoagulant and anesthetic from the "salivary glands" of the female. HIV can no longer stay to tell the tale interior the gut and for this reason can not be transmitted from a mosquito bite, whether that comparable woman have been to have 2 successive blood nutrients (no longer very person-friendly) interior some hours.

Answer 3

I find that Avon Expedtion spray works better than Deet spray.-but I'm just hiking around Connecticut not Kenya. Someone told me that drinking beer or taking yeast powder (you dissolve it in orange juice or some other liquid--it is icky tasting) will help make your body less desirable to bugs. I'm guessing that you might want to consult a doctor about malaria prophylaxis, though, even though some malaria drugs have a high side effect profile.

Answer 4

Wear light coloured clothing
Use DEET bug spray (15% or more)
Avoid areas with many mosquitoes
Wear long sleeves and pants
Sleep under a mosquito net
Vitamin B1, incence, garlic and ultrasonic devices have not been proven to repel mosquitoes

Answer 5

vitamin b is the vitamin used for energy it has nothing to do with avoiding mosquito bites but mosquitoes are drawn toward anything that expells carbon dioxide but bug spray helps

Answer 6

Bug spray with DEET during the day, and mosquito netting or be indoors at night.

Answer 7

dude,your bug food! take at least a case Backwoods spray with lots of deet.you are in malaria country.good luck....

Answer 8

bug spray

Answer 9

wear a bubbble suit, like the boy in the bubble

Answer 10

i hear that you can use dryer sheets..just stuff them in your pockets and bags