to beg you for advice about mosquito bites? Happy to run widdershins around an oak tree banging a saucepan if it will STOP THE ITCH!

[Greensleeves]

Four massive, angry bites on my upper back, and they are driving me MAD. I always react badly to bites anyway and these are really evil. Calamine lotion, antihistamine ointment and antihistamine tablets doing nothing.The itching and burning is in a 4 inch patch around each bite!

If you know of any unguent/folk remedy/anything that will make it stop, please share!

Synopen cream, from the pharmacy.

The spoon trick only works if you do it the second you are bitten.

Toothpaste, leave to dry, scrape off with a bankcard.

Ginger tablets or proper crystallised ginger, eat it at regular intervals, it's a know natural anti-histamine.
It's helped me a lot when I've had hives and I needed something extra even with anti-histamines
Also quercitin which you can buy places like Amazon also a natural antihistamine
good luck

Daktacort from the chemist, or if that's too much hydrocortisone for you, Boots do an antihistamine with 1% hydrocortisone. It's in an orangey tube. Brilliant.

Only thing that works is scratching the fuck out of it with a Denman hair brush

Never heard of widdershins before, second time this week now!

Toothpaste, leave to dry, scrape off with a bankcard.

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Ahhhhhhh... Sweet relief 😌

What are widdershins?

Hairdryer. Works better than a spoon as it's a more constant heat. Then hydrocortisone cream.

Hydrocortisone.

Our state bird is the mosquito :-D

Fellow sufferer here. These things work for me but can be variable from bite to bite. They all give some relief:
white toothpaste dabbed on the bite
a mild steroid cream - an over the counter one - is much more effective than anti-histamine creams
oral anti-histamine, but may make you feel groggy.
You have my sympathy - it's misery. I would put my leg down the garbage disposal to stop the itching.

Inside of a banana skin.... It really works

Germolene seems to work for me. It has a local anaesthetic that seems to help stop the itch

The spoon trick or blasting with a hot hairdryer will help. Something about the heat stopping the histamine production I think.

Widdershins is doing something back to front, or going counter clockwise- my mum used to call me widdershins as I'm left handed- I came to this thread because I clocked the word 😁

Widdershins means anti clockwise

AARGH

I was all set to try the spoon thing but needed DH to apply it for me, as I can't reach the buggers. He ran out of time (runs a youth group on thursdays) so he's gone and won't be back till 8.30.

Tried saliva, vinegar and onion juice - all useless. Going to try toothpaste now. Don't have a hairdryer.

the only one that works for me is germolene. It stinks but definitely works and I suffer badly with bites

I'm also a fan of the Avon skin so soft. I always get badly bitten so a friend recommended it and I haven't had any bits so far. Apparently they dont like the oil in it.

I am exactly the same. As soon as I get bitten I take piriton and put ice on it.

I too get bad reactions and just echoing the suggestions of a steroid cream, which works straight away and liquid antihistamine - Piriton works amazingly well for me after about 30 minutes and if I take it every 6 hours for 24 hours I don't itch again and the swelling goes.

Yes to the clicker - apparently it puts a small electric shock into the skin which kills off the chemicals causing the itch.
I also bought a “ bite away” device from amazon. It works on the same principle as the hot spoon but it’s thermostatically controlled. It does burn like fuck if the bite is over bone. But it works really well although sometimes it needs a few goes. This and the hot spoon method work by heating up the insect saliva protein in your skin and cooking it so it is destroyed.

Lanacane cream has an anaesthetic in it and might help, you can get it at a pharmacy.

Easiest cheapest anti itch is a dab of vinegar

Just makes you crave chips