If you’re an unlucky person with the tastiest blood in the entire world – a perfect mosquito meal, and your body ends up covered with red, unbelievably itchy spots you can’t help but scratch till they turn into huge bloody wounds, you’d certainly like to know how in hell people are able to get rid of them.
Got allergies? Oh, then you’re two, no, three times tastier than a normal person. Do even week old bites bother you? Sounds like you’re a perfect mosquito victim, ha?
Is your night sleep ruined by that quiet squeaky noise of mosquito trying to find the way to feed on you?
Have you lost your faith in special sprays that are designed to protect you from those annoying creatures and their bites?
Well, a lot of us can relate. Unfortunately, even staying at home 24/7 won’t help the situation.
But, there’re a couple of things you can do to get rid of mosquito bites or at least make them less itchy and less visible. Here they are!
Preventive measures
1. Proper window screens
It seems like those beasts are able to squeeze through the tiniest holes in our window screens.
So, if you notice that your window screen mesh was damaged, go to HireRush.com to post a window screen repair or replacement request.
Local window repair contractor will respond the message, take the task and shut down the mosquito entrance in your home.
2. Anti-mosquito repellents, fumigating foggers and body sprays
Some people swear by them. The fact that ultrasonic ones work to repel different pests, including mosquitos, other insects and even different rodents, makes them even more attractive.
However, those devices aren’t quite affordable. Besides, their effectiveness is subject to serious doubt. On the other hand, ordinary fumigators work with special hard or liquid insecticides.
Besides, they won’t save you from flying beasts in larger areas. But, sometimes they become people’s lifesavers.
Various body sprays that are made to scare off these insects don’t work like a charm, but they certainly reduce the chance of being bitten by mosquito.
Even though health care pros often criticize those sprays for their ingredients, it’s better to do your homework, examine the ingredients and find a spray to protect yourself from those beasts when you are out in the wilderness or just spend a lot of time outside past the daytime.
Post-bite treatment
Of course, even multiple leveled mosquito protection won’t save you from itchy bites completely.
But, if they make you/your child feel really uncomfortable, you can use these methods to reduce their redness and itchiness. (Remember that it’s important to take immediate measures to achieve full relief).
10 ways to get rid of mosquito bites
- Resist scratching for as long as you can. Use ice cubes, or a plastic bag with crushed ice, or just something cold from the freezer to get instant relief.
After that, use one of the methods below to achieve the long-term effect. - Lemon juice provides instant relief as well. Just cut a piece of regular lemon and use it to rub the bite spot and the skin around it as well.
- Go to your kitchen, find regular oatmeal, mix it with a little bit of water and apply this paste onto the red swollen bites on your body and let it sit for about 10 minutes.
This way you’ll significantly reduce of itchiness and swelling. - Salt and water paste applied directly onto the bitten area works great too.
- Find an inflammatory cure among your house plants. Grab a small piece of aloe vera leaf (if you’re gentle, it won’t harm the plant), cut it open to get the access to the gel part and place it onto the bite.
Or, squeeze a little bit of gel out of the leaf and apply it directly onto the spot. - Prepare yourself and oatmeal/sea salt bath to calm down your itchy body if it was a dinner for a lot of mosquitoes.
- Honey works similar to aloe vera leaf gel when it comes to reducing skin irritation caused by mosquito bites. It is liquid gold indeed, isn’t it?
- If you know that you suffer from mosquito bites more than an average person, apply some antihistamine cream onto the bite spots to achieve itch relief and stop the bite from ‘growing’.
- Damp green tea bag or a cloth soaked in cool basil water (2 cups of water boiled with a handful of dry basil leaves) are good at getting rid of mosquito bites and their uncomfortable consequences as well.
- Baking soda is basically a household magician. It works not only as multipurpose cleaning solution, but as mosquito bite treatment as well.
Just prepare some water and baking soda mix, apply it onto the bites, wait for 5-10 minutes and rinse it off. It’s much better now, isn’t it?
