to be raging that i got bitten in ENGLAND

[scarednoob]

BASTARD mosquito got into the bedroom the other night. happily swooped onto profligate window-leaver-opener-and-therefore-all-his-fault-it-got-in-in-the-first-place DP, gave him one solitary lousy tiny bite, discarded him and moved on to feast on me. I have about 8 massive bites that have all swollen up and are driving me insane with itching and looking gross.

it's ENGLAND. I don't expect to be bitten by mosquitoes in my own home on a work night. surely that's the sort of thing that you expect if you go on holiday somewhere nice and hot and exotic and worth it?

bah. also, got any good remedies for ugly swollen mosquito bites on hands, wrists and ankles and legs, apart from lady of the night style long gloves and boots??

We were in the huge Forest in north Northumberland recently.

Warm, damp, forest near large reservoir.

Got eaten alive. Never been so many bites on 4 people. EVER.

Went to local shop for (more) creams etc and they had a 'funny' T shirt which compared the local 'Midgie' to the Scottish one saying the Scottish one was a wimp by comparison.

My oldest DS is the tasty one in our house - if he's in a room the rest of us don't need to worry (poor kid)

We have plugin mosquito killers, and screens over the windows, and for the occasional ones that get through we have two different mosquito bite zappers - a little piezo electric one, which is OK, but only really works if you get it immediately, and doesn't really hurt when you use it, and a ceramic heat one - which really works, even on an old bite, but also hurts (feels like it's burning you, but it isn't - it doesn't get hot enough to be more than painful while it's touching you), so we can't use that on the kids.

In the past we just covered all DS's bites with micropore tape to stop him scratching them.

Loads of gnats here (south east) every summer. We put mesh up at the windows so we can have fresh air and keep the gnats out. Still get bitten though.

If you see a lot, worth investing in an Executioner. They're like tennis rackets with a little button on the handle which sends a current through the mesh. Great for killing them mid flight when they'd otherwise be difficult to squash. Very satisfying crack and fizz when bat comes into contact with gnat. We have 3 so there's always one handy!

I got badly chewed up on a trip to Ischia - went into the local farmacia and begged for something to stop the bites driving me demented - they gave me an amazing cream with antibiotics in it (not available OTC in the UK, and probably not in Italy either, to be fair!). Trying to remember what it's called - worked a treat on the Italian bastards, but wasn't as good against British mozzies.

Oh and germoline is by far the best thing we've found to stop the itching - much better than bite cream/hydrocortisone.

Very hot spoon, as hot as you can bear, on each bite for 3 seconds. Job done. Also works on all stings. If necessary repeat.

best thing for 'killing' the itch is hot spooning. Bung teaspoons in a mug of boiling water and then take one out in turn and press it on the bite for a few seconds.

Five years ago I was clearing the back garden of the house we'd just moved inot and I was bitten 40 times by chiggers- mozzies, midgies and gnats pale into comparison compared with these fuckers (and I'm not one for using that word)

Two weeks of crying agony until I read about the hot spoon thingy

great minds Wally

Have you never heard of the famous Scottish midgies?

I have found that a tube of Tea Tree CREAM to be very effective with soothing itching. Do try it!

You can all laugh at me if you want, but I never knew mosquitos existed in the UK.

But I'll get the last laugh as my ignorance means I've never had the misfortune of being bitten by one!

I react badly and get big lumpy bits of scar tissue where ever I'm bitten. I cant sleep in a hot bedroom either so I'm the twat using a mozzie net in the UK. I also live next door to a woods and a stream.

Fuck it I'm not daft with my mozzie net

Chemist: buy anthisan cream. Apply it. Antihistamine tablet as well if v bad,

Turn the shower as hot as you can stand it without burning yourself and spray the bite for 30sec. This makes the mast cells release all the histamine at once. It itches like mad for a minute then you get an hour or so of relief so do this if it's stopping you sleeping (apply cream after.)

'I don't expect to be bitten by mosquitoes in my own home on a work night'

On a work night

My best anti-mozzie trick was dumping my boyfriend and marrying DH. I got bitten ALL THE TIME compared to my boyfriend. But luckily DH is much tastier than ex or me, and acts as a human sacrifice so I don't get bitten when the mosquitos have him to choose instead.

Therefore OP you need to LTB and take up with someone new.

Hell yes, the work night makes it much worse. I expect them on holiday. I don't expect them in my daily grind. I say it again, bastards!!

2 weeks in the Caribbean : zero bites.
2 hours in my back garden : covered in them.

Bastards.

I am immune or something (or possibly just not very tasty) to mosquitos but I had a best of false widows recently that were biting the fuck out of me! I still have a scar.

Anthisan! I live in Finland so get bitten incessantly by mosquitoes all summer and Anthisan is great (I have to buy it whenever I visit the UK as they don't sell it here). I also have this mini tazer-like thing - you zap the bite to make the itching go away but it kinda hurts but also is strangely fun.

When all else fails, when you're feeling itchy just slap the bite as hard as you can bear. Takes away the itching for a while at least.

I've traditionally been the tasty one in the family but I've handed that baton over to ds1,it's great . On our holiday they all flocked to him. Ds2 sharing a room with him got no bites at all, neither did dd. I only have a couple but poor ds1 is covered. I used deet on him too but he must be such a fine tasting morsel that the deet is worth braving to eat him.

I'm considering hiring him out as a mozzie protection tool. Travel with ds1 and you'll never get bitten as he attracts them all to him.

If you see a lot, worth investing in an Executioner. They're like tennis rackets with a little button on the handle which sends a current through the mesh those are really fun to use but far too alluring - I always have to touch it to see how big a shock it gives.

worth investing in an Executioner ...

What a brilliant name; It brings to mind a tiny little mozzie-sized guillotine - or a itsy bitsy little chair with a cable - or even a miniature noose

Sorry ... the jetlag's getting to me

yeah - so don't swat well feed mosquitos onto the wall. I ended up with a splatter trial more normally associated with an execution style murder.

trail even...

White tiger balm. Godsend and I say that as someone who's feet and ankles got eaten 72 times in Egypt a few years ago. Slather the stuff on and you'll not feel anything.