How do I become less attractive?

[Littleredboat]

... to INSECTS, that is

It’s been summer for all of ten minutes and I’m covered in insect bites that always swell up. I could quite cheerfully hack my right leg and arm off right now they’re so itchy.

Please help meeeee??

They hate garlic, try taking garlic capsules.

We use Odomos cream when we go on holiday to foreign climes. It has hardly any smell, it is also in a spray. It comes from India where it seems to be the repellent of choice. ODOMOS

I take b complex daily and am blood group O. They still bite me a lot.

Skin So Soft by Avon is great though. Stops a lot of bites.

Garlic just doesn't work for OH. He eats loads of garlic and still gets bitten.

DEET to prevent bites

Anthisan to treat them afterwards

As yet I've found nothing to deter them, but for those that react badly to bites if you rub lemon juice on the bite before you've scratched it, it takes the itch out and shrivels it before it swells and blisters.

Fond memories of DP spending a holiday rubbing lemon and ice on the hundreds of bites on my legs alone... But the lemon-treatment prevented a lot of scarring.

Haffiana OMG never heard of chigger bites before!!!! Just decided to never go to Oxfordshire countryside without full protective clothing

Last year we went on a big family holiday and the young, female (most attractive!) guests were bitten to shreds. I was most left alone. This weekend with just myself, dh and the dog, it was me who took the hit.

Moral of tale: hang out with younger women, the attractiveness point is unproven since they were all bloody annoyingly gorgeous.

TyneTeas DD1 used to call midges "smidges", it's making me think that the creator of that stuff knew us about 20 years ago! Maybe. 😂

NoKnown, that's interesting, I take multivitamins and thought I was severely dehydrated! It could just be the B vitamins.

I came on here to say "Is that you Samantha?". And I refuse to let the words after the title dissuade me from that!

Do a trial...don't take them for a few days and watch your urine colour. I ran out recently and hadn't bought a new supply and within a couple of days my urine was yellow again....sorry TMI!! Then when I bought a new bottle and started taking them again, it turned dark again.

;-)

SleepingInYourFlowerbed

It's actually in your DNA as to how attractive you are to insects. They've found some of the genes that affect it.

I don't get bitten by midges at all. I've actually watched them walk around on my hand and not even try to bite at the same time as my husband has been covered in bites. However I do get bitten by mosquitoes and react quite badly.

I’m exactly the same. Midges completely ignore me but the mozzies eat me alive. You are not a red head are you? I’ve heard similar tales from some of my fellow readheads.

DH is the exact opposite to me, midges love him but rarely gets a mozzie bite. Fairly sure he has a rare blood type so not sure if that’s a factor.

I'll try that NoKnown!

I use to be prime feasting ground for insects and use to get covered in bites. I like to think it is because I buy citronella wristbands now from Amazon and wear them most of the time, but I think the real success of my new found untasty skin is having the Nexplanon implant. Haven't been bitten since having it put in, don't suggest such drastic actions though.

ThanksForAllTheFish
No, I'm brunette. I do have very pale skin though

My brother swears by B vitamins - says he hasn't had a mosquito bite since he started taking them and used to be bitten alive!

Come and stand next to me, then they’ll be too busy biting me to bite you 😬

I am taking copious notes.

I wore some Avon SSS last night and some Jungle Thingy (20% DEET) when out walking the dogs today and I don’t think I’ve got any new bites.

Basically in all scenarios I end up smelling a bit weird. Good-o.

If you put malt vinegar in bowls or small jugs in each room of the house it can deter mozzies. I live near a swamp and still get the odd bite but it definitely does help.

It can give the room a bit of a whiff mind lol.

NotKnown I'm experimenting. No multivitamin today. I shall report back. 😂