I’ve never been bitten by mosquitoes before.
At home, we don’t have them, and places I’ve traveled to that do have them, they’ve never wanted to bite me.
Day 2 out of quarantine in Taiwan and I look like I have chickenpox from the amount of huge bites I must have gotten, even the soles of my feet are COVERED with bites.
What’s your best remedies / repellents? I’m using Green Oil right now because it was all I could find in the Pharmacy, but it’s really ineffective for the itching and pain. I can only seem to find “natural remedies” aka cinnamon / camphor scented sprays that don’t seem to work.
As someone that has bitten by I dunno…1,000? mosquitos here both indoors and outdoors… I think YMMV on this one. I scratch them so much but so far no sores.
I use a plug-in mosquito repellant for the apartment you can get at stores like 愛買 (A-mart). They seem to do the trick.
Yeah, 100% sure it’s not bedbugs - brand new mattress and we checked the bedframe before we laid down the mattress, nobody has been in this room for 2+ years.
Also, my BF sleeps in the same bed as me, and he doesn’t have any bites - plus, the arm & leg I leave outside of the bed are the ones badly bitten, and we have seen a lot of mosquitoes around.
This is a very good and low cost preventive spray. Buy the biggest bottle you can find and then use a smaller spray bottle to keep in your bag. You can find this at PX marts. Some 711s used to carry the Off lotion which I much preferred. I don’t know of anything that will remove the irritation. Usually it takes me an hour to lose the discomfort.
I keep a bottle on my balcony and outside of my door. I spray my feet with or without socks to keep them away. They will bite me through socks and thin shirts so I often bend over so my back is flat like a table and spray a good amount over my shoulder.
Last year I had loads of very itchy spots around my waistline and one side of my body I thought where bites of some kind!
Works out is heat rash - any remedy for that. I used Snake Brand talc to ease itch.
I bought the black one cause someone told me it worked for mosquitoes and those other things, but I got ate to hell by mosquitoes. So I switched back to the green one and it seems to work alright
For healing from bites, get yourself a 到手香 plant (scientific name: Coleus amboinicus, common names include “Mexican mint” and “Cuban oregano”). They grow easily (like a weed) here. Wash off a leaf and rub it on your bites and they will cease to itch. I’ve gotten some balms from random “organic” farms around Taipei that seem to use the leaves + some sort of wax and not much else. Those work better than anything else I’ve ever tried for bites. Instant relief, but I can’t begin to tell you where to buy the balm. Yuanshan weekend farmers market? The plant you can find anywhere plants are sold. The leaves can also be used for a “throat coat” tea and also work magic in getting grime off kitchen surfaces.
