Itchy

[jethrien]

Mosquitoes ambushed me on the way home from class last night. My legs are covered in bites. I've got a layer of Benedryl on from when I first woke up, and because I was too dumb to bring the tube to work, I've now slathered on alcohol-and-aloe gel. So incredibly itchy...

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. This may not help at work, but I find icing helps. I don't think it has any therapeutic value, but it drowns out the itching sensation with the cold sensation, which is easier to deal with.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

It's a really ugly mosquito summer in Austin as well. I've been mosquitoed just about every day I step outside. I'm seriously considering moving to long-sleeved shirts and jeans again, despite the 90-someshing weather.

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

I find that taking Benadryl in pill form works better for me than the topical cream, though it does make me drowsy as heck. I agree with ivy03, ice will probably help alleviate your suffering a little. :/

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Benadryl in pill form is the single most effective thing I've ever tried for any kind of allergic reaction. The problem is that it also makes me spaaaaaacy for the entire time it's effective.

[(Anonymous)]

Go to the drug store. Get Aveno cream-- only Aveno. Itching gone in seconds. (This is the cream version of the stuff you soak in when you get chicken pox, etc. Collodial oatmeal in a no-odor vanishing formula.)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I am so incoherent as to be unemployable on Benedryl. I failed a math test once because of that stuff. (Not a math test that should have been hard.) I pretty much feel as if I'm doing the TV out-of-body-experience thing, trying to drive my body while I float a foot or two above my head. I've sworn the stuff off.

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

Long pants in mosquito territory==awesome. Jeans, not so much. Get some light weight hiking pants from REI...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

They need to be close around the ankles, or they're useless, too. I had a mosquito fly up my pants a couple months ago. I think it got stuck and just kept biting or something - I had a cluster of three or four bites within a handspan of each other up by my knee.

[(Anonymous)]

If you ever have a really really bad reaction to mosquito bites, consider asking your doctor for a prescription of (topical) triamcinolone. That's what I use, since my mosquito bites tend to swell to the size of peaches. :-(