How to deal with a mosquito bite allergy.

[grfox92]

Since we moved to WY my wife and some of my kids are deathly allergic to mosquitos. Not like anaphalaxic type reactions, but the bit site becomes enormous, enflamed, painful and turns into a scab.

Where we lived previously the wind was so consistent that it wasn't really an issue. Now we have moved onto a big farm with irrigation and tons of vegetation and life has been hell for my wife. She doesnt even go outside except to run to the truck to go somehwhere.

So we havent been camping or doing much outside as a family. My wife has to wear long sleeves in public as she looks like a drug addict with pot marks all over her arms.

Some of the natural type of bug sprays are used if we have to be outside for an event or party, but she is breastfeeding a new born and won't slather herself in insecticides and I we dont see that as the best long term solution anyway.

Anyone had to deal with this? Any pro tips or secrets to keeping mosquitos off of you? They flock to her in a crazy way, like she sprints to the chicken coop to close the door for the night and will wind up with 2 fresh bites, while im outside watering and feeding horses for 45 minutes and get nothing.

Any help is appreicted.


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[Beendare]

My body has a similar reaction to skeeters....and they flock to me where they hardly bother my wife.

Best I've found is to treat a set of clothes with permethrin. They land on them and die. I like Picaridin for repellant.

The best itch cream is; Triamcinolone topical cream, good for poison oak too.

 

[Lwilliams]

I suffer the same way. DEET and permethrin treated clothing is the only solution I have found. If someone has a better solution I would love to hear it.

 

[Dos Perros]

Is she blood type O?

 

[Sevens]

I suffer the same way. DEET and permethrin treated clothing is the only solution I have found. If someone has a better solution I would love to hear it.

Same same. I love the outdoors, but between allergies and bad reactions to mosquitoes, often feel that the outdoors doesn’t love me.

 

[LostArra]

Apparently your wife got the bad genes for mosquito attraction.
It looks like you do the outside chores until junior is weaned.

 

[grfox92]

Is she blood type O?

Everyone asks that but no, she's A.

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[nobody]

There are some supplements that help deter mosquitos, vitamin B1 being one of them. As does copious amounts of bananas. My younger brother was the same way when he was younger and did both of these and it seemed to help. Supposedly peppermint essential oil help too, just applied kindof like cologne/perfume.

Other than that, I would hang citronella candles all over the yard if I was you and burn them any time we were outside. Maybe you could get some to put in a wax warmer that you could just flick a switch for when you go out on the deck?

 

[grfox92]

My body has a similar reaction to skeeters....and they flock to me where they hardly bother my wife.

Best I've found is to treat a set of clothes with permethrin. They land on them and die. I like Picaridin for repellant.

The best itch cream is; Triamcinolone topical cream, good for poison oak too.

So this was our thought. Have a set of long sleeves we treat, I handle the baby when we leave the house and when we get home until she can change out of those close.

We want to start going for walks on the walking path at a local park in the evenings.

Might be over thinking that, but we dont mess around with chemicals around our kids.

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[grfox92]

There are some supplements that help deter mosquitos, vitamin B1 being one of them. As does copious amounts of bananas. My younger brother was the same way when he was younger and did both of these and it seemed to help. Supposedly peppermint essential oil help too, just applied kindof like cologne/perfume.

Other than that, I would hang citronella candles all over the yard if I was you and burn them any time we were outside. Maybe you could get some to put in a wax warmer that you could just flick a switch for when you go out on the deck?

Good ideas for hanging out, but she has 26 chickens and we have 2 dogs to tend to so it makes it tough.

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[Dos Perros]

This was the article I was looking for earlier but couldn't find:

Some People Really Are Mosquito Magnets, and They're Stuck That Way

Certain compounds in our skin determine how much we attract mosquitoes, new research suggests—and those compounds don’t change much over time

www.scientificamerican.com

It demonstrates that the most attractive people can be 100 times more attractive than the least attractive. My wife will get 10 bites for every one I get. It has honestly kept her from enjoying the outdoors in many respects since she had a ring on her finger (prior to that she endured). She hates summer.

So I think you accept you can't change her body chemistry and do the DEET clothing as others have suggested. Lighter color clothing may be better than dark. Maybe even consider sun gloves.

 

[TaperPin]

That sucks. I met a 30 year old gal from Alaska with the same issue and she had really bad scarring on her legs from years of bites that got through the deet, mosquito clothes and whatnot. It had an effect on her self confidence and I never have heard a good solution other than a good collection of bite resistant clothes and repellant. There are plenty of the little blood suckers who make it into the house on peoples’ backs, or following through doors as they are opened.

I wonder if dermatologists have anything to help bites?

The propane fired mosquito traps must work in some places, but I’ve never met anyone in Alaska or Wyoming with anything good to say about them, or else everyone would own one - I’d buy two.

I grew up in an area with lots of mosquitos and lots of bats, and while bats apparently eat the heck out of ‘em, we still had to use plenty of deet.

 

[Jimmy]

Look into garlic. A friend takes garlic capsules and he swears he doesnt get bit

 

[grfox92]

Look into garlic. A friend takes garlic capsules and he swears he doesnt get bit

She's tried. Seemed to have no effect.

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[isItFallYet]

Thermocell and 40% deet bug dope. I am the same way.

 

[grfox92]

That sucks. I met a 30 year old gal from Alaska with the same issue and she had really bad scarring on her legs from years of bites that got through the deet, mosquito clothes and whatnot. It had an effect on her self confidence and I never have heard a good solution other than a good collection of bite resistant clothes and repellant. There are plenty of the little blood suckers who make it into the house on peoples’ backs, or following through doors as they are opened.

I wonder if dermatologists have anything to help bites?

The propane fired mosquito traps must work in some places, but I’ve never met anyone in Alaska or Wyoming with anything good to say about them, or else everyone would own one - I’d buy two.

I grew up in an area with lots of mosquitos and lots of bats, and while bats apparently eat the heck out of ‘em, we still had to use plenty of deet.

Yea it sucks, because my wife is insanely beautiful and has all eyes on her everywhere she goes already. Like I mentioned her arms are so bad she's not very comfortable going in public.

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[Will_m]

She's tried. Seemed to have no effect.

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It’s got to be the raw stuff. She’ll smell like garlic when she sweats if she’s doing it right.

The capsules don’t have the same effect. I believe mainly because they lack the allicin or whatever it is that gives garlic its bite.

 

[Titan]

Same here. They wreck me.

I try my best to control my yard. Been using some essential oil type yard sprays with very little success. I did use some sort of pheromone wafer and a box fan with filter. That worked fairly well. Not sure it could handle a whole farm's worth.

I saw some company made a mosquito laser gun. I believe it's my only hope

 

[Jdeck09]

I am in the same boat. I've transitioned to wearing SPF summer long sleeves etc to help but the best tool is a thermacell. It works really well and is a cheap option.

 

[Burnsie]

A friend of mine lived on a lake in northern Wisconsin - on a nice summer evening there was no way you could sit out and enjoy it. It didn't matter what your body chemistry was, the mosquitos would cover you like a blanket. He bought two of the propane fired units and set them at the edge of his property away from the patio and it helped immensely. He showed the units to me and they both had bulging collection bags full of dead mosquitos. He had to empty them every few days.
Might be worth a shot?