to drive away mosquitoes, do u still use mosquito coils?  

Hi there Money Making Today!

Oh, I hate mosquitoes too. Well, I am not really sure about that but we don't use anti-mosquito coils anymore. We just apply insect repellent on our skin.

Hi MMT, while I am answering your discussion, I am also actually shooing some mosquitoes here myself! LOL

I use mosquito coil only in very rare occasions. Either that or I just learn to live with them pests sucking my blood out.

The smoke from coil is harmful to the lungs. It is like inhaling poison but only after it has accumulated its toxins in our body do they become harmful. However, I also have asthma so I definietly shouldn't be inhaling the smoke from it.

I rub repellant lotion but sometimes it makes your skin greasy and uncomfortable. Not to mention, it too has harmful chemicals that will later on cause build up of toxins.

There are electric-powered mosquito repellants too that don't emit smoke, and don't smell bad but they are also toxic too.

Whew, seems like we don't have much choice. Do we?

I also dont like the smell of mosquito coil because i think its just like the smell of someone smoking and besides it may catch something on fire if you would just leave it in a place unattended. Here in our house we usually use a blue light lamp with some electric coils wherein when the mosquitoes would land on the steel coils near the lamp it would zap the life out of the mosquitoes. Before i used to enjoy it when it just zaps there by itself but now we already have a racket shaped zapper that zapps mosquitoes.

Now it's always raining and after that mosquitoes become plentiful. It's always a problem really. At home we don't use mosquito coils because I'm allergic to the smoke and smell. Yes it's bad for the lungs it's as if you're inhaling cigarette smoke from a distance.
I use mosquito repellent on my exposed arms and legs. And the best thing to do during sleep time at night is to use mosquito net.

I seldom use mosquitoes coil, i don't like the smell , unless i am running out of flies trapper. My flies trapper is a lot more effective in getting rid of mosquitoes and render them into permanent state of dead than using mosquitoes coil, the smoke only keep the flies away for a while until it burn out. it is not as effective in stopping mosquitoes from coming back and start the nuisance all over again. These mosquitoes are tiny, but they are smart enough to avoid the smoke and then back again the minute the coil is burn out. It is only good for the monk to use since they are not allow to kill the mosquitoes.

I fully agree with that. May be it is bad for our lungs. Besides it is dangerous too. I read in news papers that In so many cases, people light the coils at night and go to sleep. Due to the breeze the synthetic curtains will flutter and touches the coil and catch fire and major fire accident happens or while in deep sleep, the body part will touch the coil and it falls down catching fire to the nearest synthetic object thus causing accident. So we stopped buying it. Instead we apply neem oil or odomos cream to the body. We apply the oil of Pongamia which is highly effective

yes ,we still using the moisquito coil even though our windows are screen.i think it is also effective so far.sometimes we put repellant and baygon spray.itt drives away moisquitos and flies.

Mosquitoes love me too, I went to Greece during a heatwave for a 1 week holiday and got over 150 bites ouch!! I then took Vitamin B5 for a couple of weeks before my next holiday and I didn't get one bite.
I don't think the coils work at all I have used them without success. There is a new product on the market which sends an ultrasonic signal and that keeps all bugs away - a friend of ours uses it and they don't even have a single spider or fly in their house.

Prolonged exposures to mosquito coil's smoke definitely is not good for the body plus it's not that effective anyway. It seems that even mosquitoes are getting wiser, they know where to attack LOL They know how to get to areas not reached by the smoke. I stopped using mosquito coils, I prefer using off lotion whenever I go to areas with mosquitoes. Some lotions are designed for kids that are only effective for 3 hours and some lasts longer, up to 8 hours of protection, it is labelled "overtime" I'm not doing a sales talk here LOL just letting you know.

enjoy

i am also using insect-repellant cream or the spray but these seem to be effective only for a few hours,i think the best would be to use a mosquito net,i do use the swatter also.