Showing posts with label insect bites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insect bites. Show all posts

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Avoiding Mosquito bites naturally

Diet can play a very pivitol role in making oneself less attractive to the mosquitoes. Diets high in garlic (and garlic tablets) and B complex can actually change the extremely faint scent of an individual; thus making oneself less attractive to a hungry mosquito. Garlic literally does repel the vampires. Other herbs that are also important in repelling mosquitoes are: citronella, cedar, verbena, geranium, lavender, pine, cinnamon, rosemary, basil, thyme, allspice, and peppermint.
Vitamin B1 has a unique ability to create an obnoxious scent that stops mosquitoes in their tracks. Ingested orally each day, an individual can take 15mgs of B1 for every 30 pounds of body weight.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Unusual mosquito bite remedies

Mosquito Bites
For mosquito bites, you can prepare limejuice and dilute it with water. Apply the liquid onto the area bitten by the mosquito. Aside from this, you can opt to simply apply calamine lotion, which is the most common choice for home remedies. If you don't have any available, check your cupboard for baking soda. Mix a teaspoon of baking soda with a glass of water. Rub the mixture onto the bitten area for about 15 minutes. Other people also use oatmeal because it has antiseptic and cleansing properties that can kill harmful organisms, which have entered your skin by way of the insect bite. All you need to do is to mix a teaspoon of oatmeal to 3 teaspoons of hot water, and mix well then apply to the mosquito bite. Oatmeal is also known to reduce itching and swelling.