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KenK/84Bravo
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Have been coming home, taking off my work boots and socks, sometimes throwing on shorts. Sitting out front/back with the dog for a couple hours, from around 3:30 -5:30 pm.
Well, I am now eat up with mosquito bites all over my ankles/legs, wrists/arms. Freakin' Horrible.
Did not think they would be out quite this early. Guessed wrong.
Aaarrrggghhh................................................ :shock:
Oh, and a question that has been on my mind that I have been meaning to ask - Why do dogs get heartworms (through mosquito bites?) and Humans do not. (?) Or do they? Whats up with that? I'm worried about my little Buddy. He spends more time outside (by his choice,) than I do. Insight appreciated.
Relief from the itch? Please help.
Well, I am now eat up with mosquito bites all over my ankles/legs, wrists/arms. Freakin' Horrible.
Did not think they would be out quite this early. Guessed wrong.
Aaarrrggghhh................................................ :shock:
Oh, and a question that has been on my mind that I have been meaning to ask - Why do dogs get heartworms (through mosquito bites?) and Humans do not. (?) Or do they? Whats up with that? I'm worried about my little Buddy. He spends more time outside (by his choice,) than I do. Insight appreciated.
Relief from the itch? Please help.
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Humans don't get them(They can) because we are not the proper host. The lave the mosquito deposits in your blood migrate to your heart and lungs but die before they develop in to the adult worm.
Get some mosquito repellent for you and plant some citronella plants in pots on your porch.
Oh yea, Basil is supposed to repel mosquito's and you can eat it too
Relief from the itch: Drink whisky
On it. (Natty Ice.)
Just got back from all morning at the Jeep dealership in Boone, for a warranty oil change. (Took forever, as they worked on an "Airbag recall" issue as well. (5 people ahead of me, even though I got there at 8:30 am.) They pulled me out to the shop, showed me both back shocks have a small leak, both rear calipers, rotors and pads need to be replaced. "Do you want us to do it?"
Uuhhgghh,..................................No.
Stopped off on the way home, bought all my parts. (Around $400) Came home, ordered 4 Nitro 8.0 shocks. (Added a 1.75" lift kit for $136 while I was at it. $349 for all.) [Quadratec, for you Jeep owners.] They Rock! Great Co. to do business with.
May review RockAuto, I've heard they are about 50-60% of the local shops. Can save me $150+ or so.
Needed a few beers, "for the Itch." :x
Hook worm used to be quite a prominent epidemic in the poor rural southern communities in the US - as the parasites are most often picked up through the skin - through the skin of the feet in the south were up until recently folk (kids especially) walked around most of the time without shoes (poverty and climate and growth spurts and culture play strong roles)
The typical stereotype of the drooling stupid slow deviant slack jawed southern idiot is actually a pretty good description of the side effects and pathology of advanced states on the illness...
Ring worm also plays a role - tics and lice and mosquito's transmit disease (Lyme disease and malaria the most prominent)
These parasitical tropical infections have altered our breeding practices and affected our DNA and development as a race - sickle cell anemia is prominent because the gene that causes it provides resistance to malaria - those folk survived and had kids - passing on and concentrating the condition...
We had largely wiped out or eliminated these problems - but with the heavy influx of illegal immigrants from south America and legal refugees from Africa combined with poverty in big cities and urban wastelands - lack of medical care and cultural or language issues has seen a return of these afflictions in our big cities - large numbers of cases and the young physicians and nurses are not trained to recognize them and have never seen or treated them...
I am only scratching the surface here - it's a bigger and nastier issue than my reply reflects - it's good internet reading though...
Mike
I'd rub myself down in Kroil, if I thought it would alleviate the itch.
You drinking EVAPO-RUST, Priceless.
Taco chaser?
+1 on the Deet as a repellent. Try some before applying it all over to be sure you?re not allergic to the stuff.
Kept me up most of the night last night. Incredibly itchy. I just finished researching bed bugs and their bites, does not match the bite description or pictures, plus they would be all over.
I am thinking midges (?) Must be a really small insect, I did not notice them while sitting outside with the dog. Have yet to actually spot a mosquito, plus they would need to be swarms of them to account for the number of bites. I am perplexed.
Yes Campho-pheniqe (sp?) I had forgotten about that stuff, I will make a trip to go get some here shortly.
I have been taking cotton balls soaked in rubbing alcohol and wiping the area, it provides temporary relief.
I used to for a long time (26-27 years) manage a large Outdoor Adventure/Equipment store. I am super familiar with DEET, in all its various forms and concentrations. I am loath to apply it. I've got some out of the cupboard, I will have to apply it (obviously) when outside.
It has been very rainy lately, and we have a sizeable mountain pond right behind the house.
Repellent- I use spray with picaridin. Red can instead of green. Works better than DEET, and works for ticks as well as skeeters.
This pond is stocked with apprx. 350 Brown and Rainbow Trout. (Spring fed) It also has an enormous variety/amount of bluegill. You can see them all, at the surface in certain light.
I doubt a few Goldfish would make a difference.
I do not think it is mosquitos that I am dealing with, on further examination. Midges/small blackflies? Etc.
Have not heard of Picaridin. Will look it up. Must be fairly new.
Calimine lotion is the cure.
Definitely not Poison Ivy. I am very familiar with that sheeit.
Some type of bug bite. (Not mosquitoes.) Has been most irritating and vexing.
I have been soaking it down with cotton swabs of rubbing alcohol. Temporarily helps.
Midges? Freakin' Killing me.
Looks like the bugs got the better of you.
Yes.
Yes, they did.
F'd me up royally. Not even sure what bug took advantage of me.
Goldfish releasing might get you a fine. Mosquito Fish from the county free and better but the stock fish would eat them.
You apparently did not read my previous post, relating to/discussing the fish situation, in the pond behind my house.
Chiggers???
I was trimming trees last summer during the hottest weather. Shorts, sleeveless shirt, no socks - the chiggers bit me all over - I itched and scratched for days.
Deet, etc. on my skin gives me a headache so I keep large stinky cigars handy. At least it keeps the critters out of my face.
Typing this is making my skin crawl. My wife gets them every year out in the garden, even after spraying with DEET.
Here's a link for more information.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=relief+from+chigger+bites&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSBR
I would hate to be one of those poor mosquitoes. I wonder if they lived though that?
Much worse itching than mosquitoes.
Grabbed a bottle of Campo-Phenique on the way home. Applied to wrists/arms only so far. Sitting out with the dog. Long pants, socks/work boots still on.
Last two nights have been absolutely miserable. Not much sleep.
And Smitty,
Bite Me.
Caught one of the Bassturds biting me.
Very small, flying, black in color. (Midges.) Black flies.
Smashed him into oblivion.
Campo-phoneque is your friend.
No See Ums. I had forgot that terminology.
Basstturds...........................................................................................................................
Do you require a GI short arm inspection???
Do you have lap lobsters???
Mike