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?

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
    9·
    5 months ago

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

    • SharkEatingBreakfast
      6·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, that tracks. 🫠

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

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 months ago

        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