Insect bites WTF

[Norman_Conquest]

I always use this cream from Tesco to deal with bites and it immediately stops any itching and swelling.

I once watched a programme on this and it is all to do with the sweat we produced. People who get bitten often usually have smelly feet - I fit that bill.

We once got out of the car near the river in Bois and had a swarm of midges attacked me. They didn’t bother the wife or my son.

 

[borolad259]

Yeah, Clegg bites can be pretty nasty. They get infected easily (I guess horseflies carry all manner of *****).

 

[Borobarmy]

Are you sure it’s not your wife working on you when you’re asleep !

 

[NZBoro1]

West Coast is notorious for it here, like Scotland. We grow and use natural aloe vera, it's really good,

 

[RotherhamBoro]

We have the same problem in our house. Me and the boys get bitten badly, but the Mrs is fine. I've started using that Jungle spray you can get in Tesco's as a deterrent. It seems to have helped. I just assume we have much better and tastier blood than the wife which is why they love dining out on us.

 

[Borobarmy]

Well seemingly it’s eat out to help out for insects too

 

[Priv]

I have had two particularly large insect bites that turned rather nasty looking. One was on the back of my calf after a cycle ride. It flared up like a small boil. The other on my thigh. Both it turns out were horse fly bites. They are apparently quite prevalent at the moment - nasty looking critters when magnified.

That’s what I used to get bit by all the time, they would
Swell up really badly, with huge lumps the size of half a tennis ball. Thankfully those bands have stopped me being the main course.

 

[Lefty]

Every summer for the past few years I come back from the allotment with 1, 2 or 3 insect bites which means several bites a day, every day, from May/June/July/Aug/Sept.

They are invariably on the neck, back, waist or ankles. Fair enough, midges or mozzies perhaps? But no.

Because sometimes I get bit on my feet, even though I'm wearing thick shoes and socks, armpit, ball sac and yesterday my nob . How the hell a flying insect gets in there without getting squashed I just can't understand.

It is the exact same type of bite so it must be the same thing surely?

I've looked all over the internet and it's doing my head in trying to find out exactly what's biting me cos I've never caught anything in the act ever.

Does your wife have a voodoo doll?

 

[red_harrington]

I used to get bitten multiple times daily whenever I went to see my horses. Now I buy and wear these throughout the summer, 89p for a pair In B&M and they last about 2 weeks each.

Worse than useless - I wore one round my wrist and guess where I got bitten.... on my wrist

 

[pierrequiroule]

August / Sept every summer I get bitten to hell at top of legs and around waist band area by what I don’t know. It’s so bad I even wondered one year if I’d got fleas!! Thankfully not. Just started with a load of bites in those same areas this week but am putting it down to the fact I was out walking on the NY moors on Saturday. It’s very annoying. Last year was first in ages I didn’t get bitten and now here we are again. Might give them bands a try.

Prickly Heat (Google it) is a possibility I get the same every august/september and have previously put it diwn to fleas (we have a few cats) but this is what the doc diagnosed. Bloody irritating too.