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Insect Bites and Stings


Summary: There are loads of cures on the market for insect bites and stings, some better than others. Here is an inexpensive, sure-fire way to stop the itching caused by insect bites and stings.

It's a beautiful, warm summer's evening and you have decided to eat dinner on the back porch. The sun is low in the sky as you set the table and call everyone for dinner. All settle in for a sumptuous meal and presto, just like magic, the mosquitoes begin their own feast and the main course is you.

You make a beeline to the medicine cabinet and rummage about looking for one remedy or the next. All the while those insect toxins are settling in and

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the welt is growing. You finally make your selection and you rub the medicine in and wait to see if it brings the itching under control.

There is a fast, less expensive method and you probably have a bottle of it sitting right in your kitchen. Ammonia? That's right! Simple ammonia will do the trick. Take a paper towel, dip it in the ammonia. Dab it right on the itch. There is no “ouch” factor and you will get immediate relief.

Now, the final touch. Put a piece of scotch tape directly on top of the bite. Leave the tape on for about 4 hours and when you pull the tape off you may actually see the poison extract from the mosquito bites on the tape.





Comments

JAN LOPEZ
20 Jul 2009, 04:36
I was bitten by some strange insect that leaves a drop of blood on the skin's surface immediately after the sting(bite). Blood sometimes drain from the area after the bite. Two days later I am still covered in red itchy welts with no relief. I would like to have an idea of what these creatures might be!
Ask the Exterminator
20 Jul 2009, 10:53
Sorry! No idea.
EricS
17 Aug 2009, 21:42
It might be black flies or horse flies; they typically leave open wounds (visible blood) as they bite and then lap up the blood.

-EricS
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