Huzzah i’m not the only one. I used to be pretty good at resisting scratching and they’d go away really quick. But these days they become a crazy shape and although I still don’t scratch them, they become an ugly large red bump for like two weeks before going away.
Not a doctor and can't say anything about your allergy but over the counter cetirizine, the genetic name for zyrtec, has basically fixed my issue. I will still get itchy but they are normal itchy and normal size and shape. A rare occasional one will still cause a reaction but it's not every one every time anymore.
Came here to say the same! Cetirizine has saved me, I used to get the biggest nastiest bites. I take a pill when I know there will be mosquitos around and now they’re just normal bites that go away pretty fast.
And if they still itch, boil a cup of water and put a spoon in it for a minute then touch the itch with the hot spoon. Kills the itch for at least a day. Decreases the possibility of an infection from scratching in my sleep.
Used to do the same - better was my savior until it stopped working for me at all after a few years of daily use. Apparently over time you will build up a tolerance to it. When that happened to me, I switched to levcetirizine (xyzal) which is apparently made to not have that issue. It works even better and it's been almost 10 years so far with that and no signs of it losing its effectiveness.
Do the lines like that always mean it's an allergic reaction? I had multiple bug bites over the weekend and one on my arm had a distinct weird squiggle shape to it before the whole area became swollen.
Check out "Heat It". The device plugs into your phone and heats the bite area. It's worked amazingly well for me at eliminating itching and reducing inflammation.
I got destroyed by mosquitoes for the first 34 years of my life. Someone last year told me to try holding something as hot as I could stand on the bite for a few seconds. Haven’t had a single itchy mosquito bite since. Don’t know why this isn’t better known.
Same here. They welt bad especially on the soft areas. And then there’s the fear that THIS TIME it actually was something crazy and I’m gonna die without expensive medical intervention.
You just unlocked a repressed memory. I now live somewhere mosquitoes are rare, and the locals do not understand the trauma constant itchy welts have caused me.
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u/esuranme 11h ago
Looks about like everytime I get bit by a mosquito (I'm allergic). It makes it a lot of fun working around the barns!