Everybody knows this horrible feeling which can make crazy! A
red bump on your skin which persistently itch you!
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| A damn mosquito biting a poor human |
As you probably know, mosquito season starts slowly in the spring,
peak in the summer and tapers off when the weather gets cold. Mosquito is the
most active a few hours before sunrise and a few hours after sundown, be careful!
Both male and female mosquito feed
on flower nectar. Only female mosquito bite humans, and she does only because
she needs the protein in our blood to produce her eggs.
So female mosquito pierces your upper skin with her proboscis,
which is a mouthpart kind of a straw. That allows her to drink fluids. After
that, she looks for a blood vessel and when she finds one, she releases saliva
into. Her saliva contains an anti-coagulant that keeps the blood flowing. It
allows her to drink the blood quickly and avoids that her proboscis get
blocked.
As a response of the presence of her saliva, your body will produce
antibodies called histamine to fight it. When histamine reaches the area of
skin where the mosquito bit you, it causes a swelling of your blood vessels.
That is why you usually see a red bump, called wheal, appears.
When the blood vessels swell, it also cause nerves to become
irritated. Your body comes out this nerve irritation as an itching sensation.
You have to know that scratching the wheal only make this
worse because it causes more irritation, so your body thinks it needs more histamine
to fight the foreign substance. So the more you scratch, the more it will, the
itchier it will get, and the longer it will last.
How to stop mosquito bites from itching?
Using things you can find in your kitchen
- - Cut a lemon into pieces and rub gently on the affected area
- - Apply some honey to the red bump
- - Apply apple vinegar to the bite
- - Mix one tablespoon of baking soda with one pint of warm water and rub gently on the affected area
Using things you can find in your bathroom
- - Clean the bite area with rubbing alcohol
- - Apply toothpaste on the bite
- - Rub a bar of wet soap and wait few hours before washing off
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