What do you do for insect bites?
By juicemilk
@juicemilk (2283)
Australia
November 19, 2006 5:18pm CST
I have 2 mozzie bites on each foot at the moment and they are so itchy!
I have some cream from the chemist which is supposed to help, but it's not doing anything :(
What do you do for yours?
I had to sleep with a cold cloth over my feet last night!
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5 responses
@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
12 Feb 07
Have you tried stingose yet juicemilk? It is good for those awful itches that we get from all sort of things that seem to appear from nowhere. I always have some on hand because as certain as it is that one day it will rain, something will bite me. You can either get it in a cream or gel plus I believe there is now a small spray pack of it as well.
The other alternative is eucalyptus oil which often helps but I would go with the stingose first. Also it is good for all sorts of bites, not just those darned mossies. Good luck and do hope that the itching stops soon, because if you scratch them, they will end up much worse that they are right now. :)
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@juicemilk (2283)
• Australia
14 Feb 07
I haven't tried stongose yet I dont think...is that just from the chemist?
I have tried a few creams from the chemist but they never seem to help for long, and then in the night when its hot I always wake up and I;m scratching them lol ruins all my hard work during the day trying not to scratch them!
@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
19 Feb 07
You can get stingose either from the chemist or the supermarket juicemilk. In the supermarket, probably cheaper than the chemist, it is with the medical stuff or at least that is where I got it from at Coles. :)
Thanks for giving me best response to this one. Give me a couple of days to find some info in my "little black book" and I will also pm you with some herbal stuff which might help in future. :)
@mikeyr6000le (2123)
• United States
19 Nov 06
If you have not broken the skin by itching them, try vinigar. If you have all ready broken the skin though it will sting when you pour it on them. This works great for mosquito bites but I'm not sure what mozzie bites are. Good luck.
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@juicemilk (2283)
• Australia
19 Nov 06
a mozzie is a mosquito :)
thanks will have to wait till I get home to try that!
@pinklilly (3443)
• Australia
7 Feb 07
I use DermAid for itching I used it when I was pregnant and the itching in the last few weeks was torcher and that worked wonders, Now I use it for mozzie bits and it works almost instantansly.
