Anybody else swell up bad from mosquitoes? I got bitten last night and now it hurts to walk.
Anybody else swell up bad from mosquitoes? I got bitten last night and now it hurts to walk.
My wifes girlfriend gets huge welts when she gets bitten by mosquitoes. Like the size of tea cup saucers with bruising on the outside, its horrible.
I hate them. They fly right past my wife and swarm me. My legs look like I have Chicken Pox...
One of my grandsons is a mosquito magnet.
I went for a walk in the woods the other day in shorts and a tanktop with out any bug spray. I had to swat a few off, but otherwise I didn't notice any bites afterwards.
After I got back I realized how that was a bad idea, but I didn't have any ticks, so that's a win.
Mosquitos? I live in South Florida. Ours will steal small children.
spitfirebill wrote: One of my grandsons is a mosquito magnet.
Type O blood attracts them more than others.
BTW, if it actually hurts to walk, in your joints, you might have got dengue fever or west nile virus from the mosquito bites.
I get quarter sized bumps, not great but not as bad as it seems you got it
I survived feeding these things for 5 years in the Nigerian swamps, how I never caught malaria I will never understand.
GameboyRMH wrote:spitfirebill wrote: One of my grandsons is a mosquito magnet.Type O blood attracts them more than others. BTW, if it actually hurts to walk, in your joints, you might have got dengue fever or west nile virus from the mosquito bites.
It hurts to walk because of the location of the mosquito bite.
G_Body_Man wrote:GameboyRMH wrote:It hurts to walk because of the location of the mosquito bite.spitfirebill wrote: One of my grandsons is a mosquito magnet.Type O blood attracts them more than others. BTW, if it actually hurts to walk, in your joints, you might have got dengue fever or west nile virus from the mosquito bites.
don't get it on your hootus.
NOHOME wrote: I survived feeding these things for 5 years in the Nigerian swamps, how I never caught malaria I will never understand.
Got Thalasemia or Sickle Cell trait? Built in resistance to malaria.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote:G_Body_Man wrote:don't get it on your hootus.GameboyRMH wrote:It hurts to walk because of the location of the mosquito bite.spitfirebill wrote: One of my grandsons is a mosquito magnet.Type O blood attracts them more than others. BTW, if it actually hurts to walk, in your joints, you might have got dengue fever or west nile virus from the mosquito bites.
Too late
In reply to cwh:
You haven't seen anything until you've dealt with Canadian mosquitoes. They are berkelying huge and voracious. Pretty sure they travel in schools, much like piranhas. The vicious little bastards make South Carolina mosquitoes look like fruit flies.
Lucky for me, I taste like E36 M3 so they only bite once. 
When I was a kid growing up in the swamp we weren't allowed to swat them. "Ignore them,you can't get them all"
I am now immune as are my brother and sister. No bumps no itching. Don't usually notice them unless they get me on a knuckle or something.
Ever see that video of a caribou getting sucked dry (to death) by a swarm of mosquitoes in Alaska?
Spray every plant (grass included) in the yard with permethrin until it's not longer an issue.
G_Body_Man wrote:Fueled by Caffeine wrote:Too lateG_Body_Man wrote:don't get it on your hootus.GameboyRMH wrote:It hurts to walk because of the location of the mosquito bite.spitfirebill wrote: One of my grandsons is a mosquito magnet.Type O blood attracts them more than others. BTW, if it actually hurts to walk, in your joints, you might have got dengue fever or west nile virus from the mosquito bites.
Yeah, you'll probably want to stop stepping on yer hootus...
Fobroader wrote: My wifes girlfriend......
I know it seems like fun at first, but from reading about others experiences here it never ends well. 
MrJoshua wrote:Fobroader wrote: My wifes girlfriend......I know it seems like fun at first, but from reading about others experiences here it never ends well.
HA....yeah, as much as I wish this was a "Dear Penthouse letters" type of situation, no, wasn't meant to be...... 
The skeeters this year are not playing by the rules. These bastards are attacking me in broad daylight. In the middle of a parking lot. No night time. No deep woods.
AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO GIVES A E36 M3 ABOUT THE RULES?!?
skeeters are attracted to CO2.. so if they are avoiding your friends and/or mate and going after you.. you might want to start exercising more so you make more efficient use of the oxygen you intake.. this will cut down on the amount of CO2 you exhale..
mad_machine wrote: skeeters are attracted to CO2.. so if they are avoiding your friends and/or mate and going after you.. you might want to start exercising more so you make more efficient use of the oxygen you intake.. this will cut down on the amount of CO2 you exhale..
It's probably because I'm a mouth breather due to my chronic allergies.
Dr. Hess wrote:NOHOME wrote: I survived feeding these things for 5 years in the Nigerian swamps, how I never caught malaria I will never understand.Got Thalasemia or Sickle Cell trait? Built in resistance to malaria.
Bit pale for sickle cell, had to look up Thalasemia; don't show any of those symptoms! Could not handle the Chloroquine pills that they handed out and it was debatable if they were a good or bad thing in themselves.
It was a charmed 5 years of my life, but I would not go back for anything.
Sickle Cell Trait (one defective (kinda) gene, one normal gene) somewhere around 1 in 10 black people, 1 in 100 Hispanic and 1 in 10,000 white, probably more in southern Europeans. Also present in Arabs. Provides pretty good resistance to malaria. Basically the red blood cells (RBC's) are fully functional, but somewhat unstable, and when the "bug" invades the RBC, the RBC disintegrates, ending that bug's ability to hide out and multiply. Two sickle genes and the RBC is unstable to the point that when stressed (low oxygen), it will mis-shape into a sickle, which won't go through the little vessels and thus cause "bad things to happen." One sickle gene and it will still work OK. An interesting genetics phenomenon and perhaps one of the very few examples of evolution as it is taught.
Thalasemias likewise will provide a resistance to malaria and a carrier could not have any symptoms. Besides not getting malaria. Maybe. The thalasemias are more common in Europeans, certain Jews and Asians.
You know that the southern US used to be just loaded with malaria? Then it all went away. Before pesticides. Why? No one knows. It just did.
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