How to Deal with Mosquito Bites

We all have suffered from mosquito bites, the itching lasts for days on end. But there are steps you can take to limit the itchiness if not eliminating the protein that makes you itch. These remedies range from using over the counter medicines to home remedies in which you can use around the house items to improve your bites.

1) The protein that causes the itching is destroyed at around 40.5 degrees Celsius, that's 105 degrees Fahrenheit. What you can do is boil up a cup of warm coffee or tea and place that cup on your bite for about a minute of so. The heat from the cup should denature the proteins that causes the itching and thus eliminating the itch all together.

2) Use medicine. This step is a no-brainer. Get some Benedryl gel or any other anti-itch cream or gel and follow the directions on the container. From my experiences, these medicines only temporarily eliminate the itch but the do not address the cause itself unlike the step above.

3) Avoid scratching the bites. Although the bites itch, you should try to avoid scratching the bites because continual scratching may increase your discomfort and it could spread the itching.

4) Use calamine lotion or a topical anesthetic containing pramoxine to help relieve pain and itching.

5) You can always use the always popular remedy, Aloe. Use aloe vera gel to reduce swelling and itching, aloe vera also forms a protective layer, to reduce possible infection.

6) To reduce itching of the bites for about 3 hours, then you could put some vinegar on a cotton ball and just rub it on the bite. This is a cheap and quick way you could reduce your itching.

7) If you don't have vinegar, you could also use rubbing alcohol.

8) Make a paste using baking soda and water. Then rub that paste over the bites.

9) You could also use saliva to help tone down the itching. Just spit on or like the bite and it will help relieve the itch. Though this sounds gross, this is a very quick and free way to help you out.

10) And to prevent the bites in the first place, you can take Vitamin B pills. Just get some pills and take them three times a day. The mosquitoes do not like the taste and smell (nobody will probably wont notice the smell) from the pills and thus will stop biting you.

With the summer here, and mosquitoes flying around, we could all use some help at fighting the intolerable itching associated with the summer days.