I’m tired of mosquitos biting me. If i can’t stop them biting me, the next best thing is to stop them biting me a second time. So what’s the best (safe for me) way to make myself poisonous to mosquitos, and optionally other bugs that might bite me?

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    4 months ago

    I thought it was more common, but mosquito bites do not effect me, and I only get bit very very occasionally. My kid, on the other hand, gets eaten by mosquitoes and has a very harsh reaction.

    What would cause mosquitoes to naturally not want to bite me & no itching/bumps/reaction to their bites?

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      4 months ago

      For the no itching/bumps part, I think the absence of an immune system reaction (or a weak one) will do that

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, that tracks. 🫠

        EDIT: Wait… the itching is basically an allergic reaction to mosquito saliva. So, I’m not allergic?

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          IIRC the itching and inflammation is an immune response to the shit they inject you so you don’t feel the bite as much while they’re drinking, and huge bumps/lots of itching is an allergic reactions of sorts (which is really just the immune system going way overboard with a reaction to something that is not a threat or not a big one). So you may have no reaction to it, or a very light one