We're in Italy for the next three weeks and are under assault by vengeful mosquitos.
In the last week my husband has got at least 30 angry bites over his body, many bleeding from where he's scratched them. I have 10 red raised welts, mostly on legs and wrists, but until the last couple of days our 7 month had escaped. Prior to that there was maybe one or two mosquitos that had made it into our bedroom at night and I was having reasonable success at killing them. Now numbers have exploded, there are currently 8 I can see on the ceiling, and I don't know how to get them out or stop them coming back and most importantly stop them biting my baby.
She has 3 bites on her face and 3 on her body We have bought an electronic plug-in which seems to have done nothing, were given supposedly child friendly wrist bands with citronella which are too big for her but I've warn them (she sleeps beside me) and they don't seem to have done anything either, and we bought a child friendly natural repellent in a pharmacy here I've been reluctant to rub into her skin because she's so little (that was before she was actually bitten) I used it on me and it didn't seem to make much difference.
We have curtains pulled during the day, there is mosquito netting on the bedroom window but I guess there are gaps. There's no way to rig up a mosquito net.
What can we do for her? I never realised mosquitos in Italy could be this bad, years ago I lived in mosquito-affected countries and wore DEET but I really don't want to rub that into her skin- also everything (hands and feet) go in her mouth at the moment.
I feel so bad looking at her little face and the big red marks- does anyone have advice on what could work?