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@RabbitKM (why doesn't this always work?)

Those tennis racquet zappers are brilliant - when I am sitting outside on my terrace, I always have one, and it is waved around every 10 minutes or so. The number of zaps tells you if the mossies are out in force. We also burn mossie coils:nowadays, you can buy different scented ones, and I usually get lavender. Every little helps! We have the mossie that carries Zika , but as yet no cases that I know of in SE Asia. We worry about Dengue, which they also carry. At the moment, this is big news in Thailand, as a major star has just died of Dengue, despite the best possible treatment. Mossies are the pits!

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2 hours ago, sawasdee said:

@RabbitKM (why doesn't this always work?)

Those tennis racquet zappers are brilliant - when I am sitting outside on my terrace, I always have one, and it is waved around every 10 minutes or so. The number of zaps tells you if the mossies are out in force. We also burn mossie coils:nowadays, you can buy different scented ones, and I usually get lavender. Every little helps! We have the mossie that carries Zika , but as yet no cases that I know of in SE Asia. We worry about Dengue, which they also carry. At the moment, this is big news in Thailand, as a major star has just died of Dengue, despite the best possible treatment. Mossies are the pits!

I'm going to Hawaii for my honeymoon in June and they're having a major Dengue outbreak on the big island. Even made declaring it a state of emergency. Hopefully, they get it under control in the next couple of months. Also, I'm just going to be on Oahu for the week, not the big island. As someone who grew up in the Midwest, I'd never even heard of Dengue before. If I had gone to the Caribbean or Cancun, I'd have to be worried about Zika. In Hawaii, it's Dengue. Stupid, stupid mosquitoes everywhere.

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There are some things that may/may not help decrease your risk.

Take yeast tablets for at least 2 weeks before you go. They make you unpleasant to mossies.

Eat marmite before and during your stay.

Eat as much garlic as you and your new groom can tolerate - and take garlic capsules!

All of these make you unpleasant to mossies.

Any perfume you wear - make it citronella based. They like florals, and hate citronella. In fact, I use a citronella spray at all times.

Carry antihistamine tablets - take a non drowsy daily - it won't stop any diseases, but it will stop bites itching so badly.

This is a mixture of fact and folk knowledge - but none of it will hurt!

 

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When I go camping, I burn a small citronella candle in my tent before going to sleep.  I've never been bitten at night in my tent.  I burn a larger one right outside the tent door before going into the tent.

ETA:  I am the main entree in the mosquito world.  They love me to pieces.

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3 hours ago, sawasdee said:

@RabbitKM (why doesn't this always work?)

Those tennis racquet zappers are brilliant - when I am sitting outside on my terrace, I always have one, and it is waved around every 10 minutes or so. The number of zaps tells you if the mossies are out in force. We also burn mossie coils:nowadays, you can buy different scented ones, and I usually get lavender. Every little helps! We have the mossie that carries Zika , but as yet no cases that I know of in SE Asia. We worry about Dengue, which they also carry. At the moment, this is big news in Thailand, as a major star has just died of Dengue, despite the best possible treatment. Mossies are the pits!

YES!   Love those. 

I open the sun roof of my car and make my husband take me for a ride and stick those out the top.   Zip zap zip zap down the road!    

(Simple things amuse simple minds)

 

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7 minutes ago, MoonFace said:

YES!   Love those. 

I open the sun roof of my car and make my husband take me for a ride and stick those out the top.   Zip zap zip zap down the road!    

(Simple things amuse simple minds)

 

Gotta try this - no sun roof, but I drive a pickup. Get a friend to drive and sit in the truck bed with bat - Yes!

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2 hours ago, sawasdee said:

@CreationMuseumSeasonPass

There are some things that may/may not help decrease your risk.

Take yeast tablets for at least 2 weeks before you go. They make you unpleasant to mossies.

Eat marmite before and during your stay.

Eat as much garlic as you and your new groom can tolerate - and take garlic capsules!

All of these make you unpleasant to mossies.

Any perfume you wear - make it citronella based. They like florals, and hate citronella. In fact, I use a citronella spray at all times.

Carry antihistamine tablets - take a non drowsy daily - it won't stop any diseases, but it will stop bites itching so badly.

This is a mixture of fact and folk knowledge - but none of it will hurt!

 

Marmite? Oh joy, I love marmite. Mosquitoes love me. I hope my Marmite poisons the little blighters.

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Thermacell Mosquito Repellent is the one thing that allows me (the person allergic to Deet) to sit outside on the patio in the summer without being dressed head to toe.  It's a small butane heater that heats up a saturated pad.  It works very well but you need to let it heat for 20 minutes before it starts to work.  Also I can't tell you the number of times we have forgotten to turn it off and burned though the 12 hour butane cartridge at about $5.00 per cartridge.

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I almost never go outside, because the bugs love me and I've been adversely affected too many times to take changes. My 5th grade gifted class took a trip to Jekyll Island, GA, and the first night I was bitten by a spider and it got infected. I had to be driven to Brunswick, which is back on mainland Georgia, for treatment and missed the whole trip. I was the only person to get sick. Five years ago, my mom and I went on a church retreat in Pine Mountain, GA when I was hanging around the Mennonites for a spell. We were dressed head to toe in long pants and sleeves, long socks, slathered in bug repellent and those repellent fans, and didn't go hiking or swimming. As soon as we came back to the city (i.e., Atlanta), we started breaking out in sores that were later diagnosed as drug-repellent MRSA caused by infected flea bites. once again, no one else who went on the trip was affected. Suffice to say, I've decided to spend the bulk of my life indoors. In between these two extreme events are scores of bad but relatively minor experiences with bug bites of various sorts, which have left me covered in welts, but others unscathed. Bugs don't just love me, they've given me the key to Pest City.

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2 hours ago, manda b said:

My youngest is allergic. They whelp up and blister.  We spray and use the bracelets. I am pretty sure she is A+

 

I'm also A+ and terribly allergic. I've seen "studies," though not very scientific, that mosquitoes prefer O blood. 

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1 minute ago, Casserole said:

 

I'm also A+ and terribly allergic. I've seen "studies," though not very scientific, that mosquitoes prefer O blood. 

Well, I'm B+, and mosquitoes tend to treat me as a last resort. I get bit, but not as much as other people.

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I'm O+ and a mosquito magnet. My husband and I can sit side by side and they won't go near him. Mind you, he is a butcher who makes sausages and constantly smells like garlic...

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31 minutes ago, Casserole said:

When my son was little he got a mosquito bite and his whole back blew up. I was shocked as I'm a magnet but just got plagued by bites. Anyway, doctor told me to make a paste of MSG (sold as "Accent" then, not sure if they still have that now) and slap it on the bite. Neutralizes the "icky stuff" to use the scientific term, and it worked like a charm. I carried around MSG and a water bottle for every summer for years as we lived in Central Jersey, which is mosquito nirvana in the hot weather.

I'm also A+ and terribly allergic. I've seen "studies," though not very scientific, that mosquitoes prefer O blood. 

 

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4 hours ago, sawasdee said:

@CreationMuseumSeasonPass

There are some things that may/may not help decrease your risk.

Take yeast tablets for at least 2 weeks before you go. They make you unpleasant to mossies.

Eat marmite before and during your stay.

Eat as much garlic as you and your new groom can tolerate - and take garlic capsules!

All of these make you unpleasant to mossies.

Any perfume you wear - make it citronella based. They like florals, and hate citronella. In fact, I use a citronella spray at all times.

Carry antihistamine tablets - take a non drowsy daily - it won't stop any diseases, but it will stop bites itching so badly.

This is a mixture of fact and folk knowledge - but none of it will hurt!

 

My husband takes tons of vitamin B complex.  As long as his levels are high he doesn't get bit.

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Not about mosquitos, but reading Derricks "trial" post I was struck by how he talks about getting through it knowing that God is behind them and they are in the service of the true church (I paraphrase) yada, yada, yada. So I'm thinking that their recent "trials" may have something to do with the locals telling them to piss off. Like the priest not appreciating suffering people being accosted WHILE PRAYING IN CHURCH. Or maybe evil Catholic nuns who run a children's home telling them that having the children's routine interrupted so that non-Spanish speaking Anglos can hand out one crayon at a time while taking photos is not welcome. Or a local health clinic--probably also staffed by evil Catholics--declining to send their clients to Jill for nutrition "education" (BTW, what are the odds that the Dullards even know anything about local dietary customs or food availability)

just a guess, but it read to me like they are feeling martyrish and unappreciated.

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I'm A- and skeeters love me.  One thing we do is plant a TON of marigolds and other repelling plants all around our outside areas.

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4 hours ago, patsymae said:

Not about mosquitos, but reading Derricks "trial" post I was struck by how he talks about getting through it knowing that God is behind them and they are in the service of the true church (I paraphrase) yada, yada, yada. So I'm thinking that their recent "trials" may have something to do with the locals telling them to piss off. Like the priest not appreciating suffering people being accosted WHILE PRAYING IN CHURCH. Or maybe evil Catholic nuns who run a children's home telling them that having the children's routine interrupted so that non-Spanish speaking Anglos can hand out one crayon at a time while taking photos is not welcome. Or a local health clinic--probably also staffed by evil Catholics--declining to send their clients to Jill for nutrition "education" (BTW, what are the odds that the Dullards even know anything about local dietary customs or food availability)

just a guess, but it read to me like they are feeling martyrish and unappreciated.

I would love this to be the case, but from what I've reason about SOS and other missioncation organization, they're not exactly breaking new ground where they go. They seem to stick to places they're familiar with and/or are receptive to them already (the local economy get a major boost from them, maybe?). They're not taking any chances by going to areas that might be hostile towards them. Mores the pity. 

I think internet comments are enough to make those two feel martyrish. 

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6 hours ago, keen23 said:

Well, I'm B+, and mosquitoes tend to treat me as a last resort. I get bit, but not as much as other people.

I am also B+, and I get bitten like mad. The last time I got bitten, I was concerned I had chickenpox they were so bad.

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I think we've debunked the blood type, mosquito bite correlation, although this is, of course, a small sample.

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4 hours ago, lascuba said:

I would love this to be the case, but from what I've reason about SOS and other missioncation organization, they're not exactly breaking new ground where they go. They seem to stick to places they're familiar with and/or are receptive to them already (the local economy get a major boost from them, maybe?). They're not taking any chances by going to areas that might be hostile towards them. Mores the pity. 

I think internet comments are enough to make those two feel martyrish. 

It's just like how John Shrader is living in a relatively economically stable, developed town in Zambia but pretending he's in Darkest Africa living in a hut in the jungle. Jill and Derick are living in quite nice accommodations in what's likely a relatively well-developed area with locals who tolerate them because they'll spend lots of money, but pretending they're out in the wilderness communing with the benighted savages and hardened gangsters (more likely they encountered some typical I'm So Tough teenage boys who heard a Biggie Smalls song and think they're hardcore now).

These white-savior missionary types want to act like anyone who doesn't live like a typical middle-class white American is living in the Stone Age. They can't accept (or publicize) that in third-world countries, most people struggle and might not live with very good infrastructure, but have quite a lot of modern comforts and are quite connected to the modern world. Hell, the tiny-ass village I worked in in China had fantastic wifi and cell service, and two huge, modern grocery stores (that sold farm equipment alongside Oreos and giant bags of rice).

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4 hours ago, Bad Wolf said:

I think we've debunked the blood type, mosquito bite correlation, although this is, of course, a small sample.

I can recommend starting on chemo (methatrexate) and immune suppressors... I used to be a complete mozzie magnet, and this is the first (Australian) summer ever where I haven't been savaged by them. I've spoken to a number of other people on immunosuppressants who have had similar experiences.

Now i don't recommend getting treated for cancer, an organ transplant or autoimmune disease to avoid mozzies... but its certainly one benefit!

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I'm A+ and mozzies love me.  They don't welt too badly though, so I never used to bother too much about them, but now that Ross River Fever has reached Sydney (I know two people in my area to have contracted it locally) I'm more careful.  

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Will Zika-carrying mosquitos show up in the southern US states during the summer months ?  

Also, Derick really does look thin, geez.  Even if he's "just" undernourished/exhausted and not actually sick, maybe this will mean their second baby will be spaced out longer than it would have been  if he'd been in good health ?

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