Is there anything you can eat to keep the mosquitos from finding you so tasty?

This bug spray is a good alternative if you’re worried about chemicals
as far as what to eat, i have no clue

Garlic might work, but then, you wouldn’t want to kiss her. Actually, mosquitoes are attracted by perspiration, body odor, warmth, carbon dioxide, color, contrast, movement and light. Here is a nice article about it.

I say garlic because it was a natural flea repellent for my dog a few years ago. It’s mild antibiotic properties also cleared up a skin disease and digestive problems that he had.

Yes. Something that will infect you with hepatitis. Ever since I contracted it in 1980 mosquitoes have left me alone.

@Facade lordy, a 4 oz. bottle is $8. that’s pretty steep, considering using it liberally as suggested means 4 oz wouldn’t last very long.

I heard that not eating cheese helps.

@evelyns_pet_zebra Good products are often expensive. I too wish they were cheaper

Skin-So-Soft from Avon was the inadvertent repellent of note as far as I can remember. Is that not true anymore? I don’t get bitten very often, so I wouldn’t know.

@evelyns_pet_zebra She hits about every category. Bright clothes, running around getting warm and sweating (only 3 y/o I know with stinky underarms) and, you know, breathing. lol

@aprilsimnel I just bought a big bottle of Skin-So-Soft about a month ago – completely forgot it seems to work as an insect repellent. I’ll give that a try!

Poor baby! I was always that child too! (Eh, I pretty much still am). I’ve been told they’re attracted to the color blue (you know, because veins are blue), so avoiding wearing bright blue helps slightly.

Here‘s a link to some homemade and on-the-cheap natural insect repellents. Some look pretty sketchy, but others I really want to try now. One person swears by dabbing lavender oil on. Yum.

@La_chica_gomela Thank you for the link. I love marigolds anyway, so planting them sounds worth a try. I like the lavendar oil, too, and never would have known about adding alcohol to the skin so soft.

Beer (Or Brewers yeast.)

Ughh, I have the same exact problem. I’m not sure of a way to keep those pesky little bugs away, but I do have a suprisingly simple anti-itch solution that works better than any anti-itch cream I’ve ever used. Just combine a little bit of corn starch and a small amount of water so that it makes a medium-consistency paste. Then dab a bit on the bite, cover with a Band-Aid, and voila! No more itching. :)

I’ve heard that eating garlic helps but I’m not sure just how effective it is. On holiday recently I met a woman who had spent the month leading up to the holiday eating garlic and taking garlic supplements every day and she still got bitten to death, poor thing, it made her quite ill at one point ( or was that the alcohol and sun ?? )

The little bastards love eating me alive too, my wife never normally gets bitten (we have always put this down to her having malaria) but on our last holiday she did get bitten a little bit.

@AstroChuck That’s weird. I know people with Hepatitis and they still get bit by mosquitos

@casheroo- I guess I’m just special.
To be fair, I do get the odd mosquito bite every now and again. But usually they leave me alone and go for the rest of my family. Too bad for them.

lemons are a natural anti repellant perhaps home made lemonade??

Garlic or vinegar or spicy foods

You could always eat the mosquitoes.

@AstroChuck I always thought it had to do with blood type. I share the same blood type as the hep friend, so I thought it meant we have sweet blood. I’d ask your blood type, but we haven’t even had coffee yet ;)

Reduce the amount of sugar in your diet as much as possible—it’s been proven that mosquitoes gravitate towards humans with a diet rich in processed sugar.

@Makstarn: Do you have any evidence to back that up?

I agree with @Aprilsimnel, pAvon’s Skin So Soft is the ticket that works! While in Oklahoma for some rodeos, my barrel horse was attack by those nasty biting mosquitoes. He’d been bitten, so badly, he had golf ball size welts ALL over his entire body. To make a long story short, the local Veterinarian suggested, I buy some Skin So Soft. (it just so happened his wife was the local Avon lady) from the ON, I kept a few bottles everywhere. NEVER left home without it!

Years ago I was prescribed, among other meds for an autoimmune disease, folic acid and a vitamin B complex. Apparently once those 2 vitamins get in your system, mosquitoes do NOT like the odor that comes from your skin. It is not an odor that humans can smell. I have had mosquitoes land on my arms, etc, and instantly fly away. Haven’t had a mosquito bite in years and years, And, BTW, I do shower daily!!

@captainshalfunit: Folic acid is one of the B vitamins, just for the record. That’s an interesting story, because I actually also suffered from an immune disease a number of years ago, and also was prescribed immunosuppressants and B vitamins, and mosquitoes still love me to bits.

I am aware that folic acid is one of the B vitamins. However, I was prescribed additional folic acid, Iberet Folic Acid to be exact, although I have forgotten the strenth by now. I may just be one of those people that mosquitoes are not attracted to. However, before taking the above meds, I had mosquito bites as routinely as the next person.May I ask if your autoimmune disease has since cleared up or gone away? I have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) for 40+ years now with kidney involvemennt.

@captainshalfunit: I’m in remission.

I have heard that you DON’T want to eat bananas before spending time in a buggy area, but that’s about it.