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• Added by: Kavey
• On: 19 Apr 2008
• Honestly, with all the repellents you've tried I can only suggest you look at physical blocks - clothing that will not let them reach the skin at all.
  
  Citronella is another option though if the other repellents don't work I would be surprised if that does.
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• Added by: scheungy
• On: 19 Apr 2008
• I manged to get some bands which i used for the kids - try good old fashioned pop socks as a thin layer then put the band over the top - got these in Boots.
  
  Worth a try
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• Added by: Ruth
• On: 19 Apr 2008
• Using citronella oil with the other stuff means i don't get as many bites but they can still swell up badly and look like solid blisters. they are pretty painful & uncormfortable o say the least.
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• Added by: Laurabelle
• On: 19 Apr 2008
• My leg bites can get huge too and I found that a natural roll on mix by Korres is really good. If you google Korres they will come up. Its a Greek company but some uk online shops stock the brand too.
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• Added by: Ruth
• On: 20 Apr 2008
• I wish i could put a photo in this thread to see if they are similar lol
  
  
  
  but will try to find some of that stuff. it is worth a try at any rate. can't be any worse than they already are
  
  
  
  thanks
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• Added by: JanieB
• On: 20 Apr 2008
• Ruth, have you tried taking a mild one-aday antihistamine while you are traveling? I get an itchy rash from the sun and I find they help a lot to stop it developing. I start taking them 2 days before I travel and each day I am away. The brand is Benadryl and they don't make you drowsy and have no side effects as far as I can tell- I have been taking them for 3 years.
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• Added by: Angela R
• On: 20 Apr 2008
• We used Avon's Skin So Soft while in Borneo and this seemed effective. I was very skeptical beforehand but gave it a go with success. I think this has been covered before somewhere on the grapevine. I also seem to suffere around the ankle and lower leg level with bites but not this time.
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• Added by: illumina3
• On: 20 Apr 2008
• I have a similar problem, but not just confined to the legs for me - no matter where I'm bitten they come up in huge lumps with little blisters in the middle (Egypt was bad, I was bitten about 50 times on the face while on a felucca!). The only thing that worked (and I've tried garlic, B12, citronella, Deet, you name it) was to cover up completely, either wearing thick socks and long sleeved tops (which still didn't stop them going for the face the little sods), or a mosquito net.
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• Added by: Ruth
• On: 20 Apr 2008
• JanieB - I do take antihistamines once i have been bit. at one point i was taking 3 or 4 antihistamines a day along with 4 ibruphen 400mg to try to get the swelling to go down. I shall try taking them all the time when i am away though. see if it helps
  
  ALR - I use avon as one of my many repellents at present.
  
  Illumina3 - I know what you mean but the ones that really come up are just a massive blister..they cause my leg to swell and bruise around it & unfortunatley to only thing that seems to do anything is if they pop (which you shouldn't) & then clean them with iodine and saline & keep covered for a few days repeating the porcess & hoping they scab over rather than fill back up with liquid
  
  
  
  it is a horrible as it sounds
  
  
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• Added by: Lady Bear
• On: 23 Apr 2008
• The only time I don't get bitten is when I have had a lot of Scotch for sundowners and dinner! Apparently the mozzies don't like the smell of alcohol on your pores. Perhaps to avoid going through your holiday with a perpetual hangover you could try rubbing alcohol on your skin?
  
  
  
  This doesn't work on tetses which make mozzies look like mere amateurs in the blister bite stakes! I just avoid tstetse areas as life is so miserable when I get bitten I still have scars from 13 years ago in the Caprivi Strip in Namibia.
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• Added by: Ro
• On: 30 Apr 2008
• I have used Natural Patches - insect repellent and they are great. I usually get bitten, but these have helped a great deal. See website: www.naturalpatches.co.uk
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• Added by: KDBR
• On: 30 Apr 2008
• Mozzyoff! No doubts, tried and tested and wholly natural, deet free. Irish peat bogs, Scottish highlands, Hebridean camp-sites. It works all the time. Stockists include Tiso, but there used to be a website with a mail order facility, mozzyoff.com
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