Quick bite advice needed!!!!

[sherrardk]

Got about 15 really itchy bites (don't know what got me, but they are quite inflamed and are driving me barmy). Should I put Savalon anti-septic on them, take a hay fever tablet or use the foreign stuff I bought (called After Bite) which has no instructions and stings like buggery? Thanks for any answers (especially quick ones as I feel like scratching the skin off my arms!!!!).

[boxtops]

Sher, it happens to me too (hence the afterbite) - try not to let the bites weep or they take ages to heal (and they do scar), You've been really unlucky. Did you have a good holiday otherwise?

[sherrardk]

Hi DT - I normally only drink cider (cheap date) but these were foreign bugs (I suspect bed bugs or similar as they only started biting after the bedding was changed on Friday - or maybe it was the white wine I was reduced to drinking as part of the all inclusive package?).

[DTCwordfan]

honey wax on the scar marks work well........once they have scabbed over.

[micmak]

Try used cold tea bag, it does work.

[sherrardk]

Hi Boxtops - holiday was great, it was a kind of trial run to see if we could manage the logistics of it all (two adults managing seven peoples luggage is quite a trick). The food was pants, but it was only for a week so we managed - kids were happy as it was ice cream and drinks on tap.

[boxtops]

Excellent - glad it was good overall!

[DTCwordfan]

glad you had a good time other than the souvenirs on you.

[boxtops]

Actually I had forgotten sher - the very first time I got really bitten by the mozzies was in Tenerife, before that I'd never had a problem. Must be a touch of the Canaries!

[PringlesQueen]

If they are bed bug bites they are classically in clusters of three bites close together

[sherrardk]

Thanks Squslamimmy - somehow feel better that it's not bed bugs (they are not in clusters, just randomly spaced out) - did see some mighty big cockroaches in our rooms though. (Am itching all over just thinking about the creepy crawlies!)

[boxtops]

Nah, it's mozzie - almost certain.

[sherrardk]

Hi Box - the white wine must have accumulate in my system and the could smell it (don't really like wine but wasn't going teetotal for my holidays).

[DTCwordfan]

sounds like mozzies - not much you can do without one of the "protection" agents already mentioned. The bazturds can detect your CO2 at over 100m away and you dont even feel them. You don't usually see them until after if you happen to notice them. This is when they have already dined at your OK Bar and are full of your red wine - and, by then, they have injected their white wine to keep your wound open.....

[pussnboots]

I always find that good old TCP does the trick with bites. I got a bite today whilst doing some gardening, a dab of TCP and it's sorted.