Mosquito Bait. . .

I'm curious about something -

People around my kids and I have been complaining like crazy about MOSQUITO BITES! We're not being bitten - what's up with that? I mean, we used to, but not - it seems - much, if at all, anymore.

I know some other people who "don't get bit" and I know some people who get "eaten up" with mosquitos. I've noticed a correlation between the bitten and the unbitten and I was wondering about getting a larger sample of the population.

Now I don't want to turn this into a whole vegetarian VS non-vegetarian thread - that's NOT what this is about - I'm just curious here, so please just be honest and don't make this a whole flamefest thing. (I know, I know - that's asking a LOT of you guys :P - but if you would...

they don't seem to like my BB though. She's only 8 months (almost 9 mos) old.

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but gets solids now as well. Which does include some meats.

Oh, and BTW, we had a few of the little buggers in our room last night and I got chewed on about six times or so.

lactovore :rofl:

Some people don't have a reaction to the anticoagulant in mosquito saliva, though. :)

At least, according to this guy: http://www.drgreene.com/21_60.html

I had sweet blood
thats why I got bit..



lost

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oh yeah, the thread is about mosquitoes :P


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keep your MIND out of the gutter!!

i wuz just askin a question :rofl:


;)

I've come back unbitten from trips where everyone else looked like they had chickenpox, and walked bare-legged though patches of poison oak. I try not to push my luck, however - I fear that my immunity might wear off in one fell swoop.

I'm an omnivore, by the way.

Always have, since I was little. I've been a vegetarian for over 15 years. I don't think it has anything to do with it. My dad is a mosquito magnet too. It's in the genes...or something.

Thank goodness. Mosquito bites itch like mad.

wtih skin color and tone--I'm very fair--in fact white as a sheet, and I'm always getting bitten. People I know with tanned skin aren't bit as much. If I am outdoors for any length of time when it's muggy and hot, I will look like I have measles from bites. It's worse back here in New England, and I don't recall getting bitten nearly as often when I lived in L.A.

I'm "olive toned"

my eldest son is about as white as this screen you're looking at

my youngest son is African American.

It's histamine based.

However, to help the poll, I used to get bitten ALL the time. Eaten up. However, since I've been vegan, not so much. For what it's worth...

They used to eat my ass up. Now they don't. I still react badly when I get bit though. :(

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;)

I used to be a mosquito MAGNET. Since becoming vegetarian - I almost never get bitten. I would say never - because I can't remember having been bitten - but maybe I forgot some occasions.

My youngest - who is highly allergic to mosquito bites - sometimes triggers his eczema, once got septicemia from an infected bite - I don't think he's been bitten since we became vegetarians.

My oldest has gone to camp in upper Minnesota for three years. The handbook has WARNINGS about the mosquitoes. He's never had any problem with bites. Other kids go crazy with them.

We went to watch fireworks over the 4th with the NSSO - who is still a non-veggie - he was bit UP, the three of us vegetarians - Nope.

:shrug:

I still think there has to be something to it.

Some spices are mosquito repellents. Some spices might be on ones skin, breath, and sweat making one repellent to mosquitos. That's my theory anyway.

the tops of my feet and behind my knees are the only places I seem to get bit, and they are tiny bites. Around my ankles too.

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guess i dont have sweet blood :D

"full of it!!!!!"



(You thought I was gonna say "sweet", dincha?)


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The inside of the bite falls out leaving a scarred pit on her skin.
She is a healthy person and does eat some meat.

She has had several doctor visits on this, and none have been able to come up with a solution.

she might want to try being vegetarian as an experiment. Of course it would have to last long enough to get the meat entirely out of her system which would take ..... hmmm - months?

I dunno if there is a correlation. Just was wondering as it always seemed more than coincidental that everywhere we go where people are complaining incessantly about the mosquitoes, those of us who are vegetarians - don't. :shrug:

It seems like the mosquitos have gotten a lot worse this year, which is surprising because its been very dry. If my wife is around they will go after her first and leave me alone.

As a kid, I was always bitten. Now never. I reckoned I developed an immunity. Once when I was working in Israel, we were sitting around one evening. An english girl next to me was being eaten alive. They left me alone. So she whacked me for it.

Either in the poll or the comments. I eat meat, more chicken and fish than beef, and I get bitten all the time. A few years ago 6 of us were out on the end of a pier watching the sun set over a lake, all wearing bathing suits. When we got in, they all had fun counting the numbers of bites, about the size of a nickel, that covered me. There were 18. One person had 2 bites, one had one bite, and three of them had none. They thanked me for being better than a bug zapper to protect all of them. The only thing I've ever found that is effective is Skin-So-Soft, but you have to put so much on you smell like crap and you're greasy.
I remember a poem from when I was a kid:
God is great, but God makes mistakes.
How else do you explain mosquitoes, roaches and snakes?

in the poll to determine.


Seems more than coincidence - but it could be. :shrug:

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no mzteris there aren't any damned mosquitoes on me but hey don't stop ;)

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