Cream for itchy bug bites

[timetorefresh]

Can someone please recommend the best treatment for itchy bites. Mine are keeping me awake!

Sudocrem.

Anthisan.

Make sure you clean them well with soap or disinfectant. Canesten athlete's foot cream has hydrocortisone in I think, that should help

Antihistamine tablet

Another vote for anthisan!

Do you have any antihistamine tablets? Take those. Anthisan cream is good too. There's a spray we use, midges love my oldest DS, but can't remember the name.

Vicks vapour rub or Tiger Balm

Any cream with Hydrocortisone in it, and an antihistamine tablet if you have any.

Anthisan and an antihistamine tablet.

Or calamine aqueous cream (not calamine lotion. When it dries it gets even itchier!)

A very very hot teaspoon (google it - it works).

or ‘after bite‘ stinky pen.

anthisan and piriton both have a fast-acting antihistamine and are very effective.

the hot teaspoon trick really does work too but be careful not to burn yourself.

Hot spooooooonnnn. It's amazing.
Hydrocortisone cream.

Thanks all. I shall go try a hot spoon and go cream shopping in the morning

Tiny dab of minty toothpaste works!

Dab with brown vinegar a few times while you wait to get to a pharmacy - it reduces the itch.

The hot spoon works great.

I got some Moskinto bites plasters from Amazon and they worked a treat.

Any or all of the above will help.

But my best trick for taking the itch out of insect bites is to blast them with a hairdryer, as hot as you can bear for a couple of seconds.

You'll get immediate relief and about twelve hours itch free.

Eurax

Anthesan cream for instant relief. Combined with an antihistamine tablet to take the general reaction down a bit.

If you don't have cream either a hot hot spoon (as hot as you can handle it) it jag a cross into it with your nail. It's hurts a bit but it takes the itch out. I have no idea if the science behind it but it works

Does nowhere just sell OFF or similar in the UK?! Like a Tide pen but for insect bites?!

www.fenistil.ch/content/dam/cf-consumer-healthcare/fenistil-new/de_CH/FENISTIL_TOPICAL_cPIL_Gel_Clean.pdf

I've been treating my mozzie bites with a flannel wrung out in very hot water (a variation of the hot spoon/hair dryer trick that I came across on MN last week. It really works! I find that I get about 20 hours relief before the itch returns.

Eurax

I bought this when I was absolutely desperate a few weeks ago. I already tried hydrocortisone, after-bite and antihistamines. The gadget is brilliant - worth every penny. Take good amounts of antihistamines too.