Brutal little blighters, some of those midges. I find bites on legs particularly troublesome too. Possibly because I have some slight varicose veins and the midges know they can get a good feed if they bite there, particularly around ankles. Have to be careful that the bites don’t cause cellulitis, which has the symptoms you describe, @Max68 and usually needs antibiotics to clear, which takes a few days.
I have found that commercially available insect repellants do nothing, other than give me a rash. So I make my own using distilled water, (about 500mls) mixed with essential oils citronella, lavender, peppermint, (about 5 drops of each) put in a spray bottle and spray around ankles, and legs. I also put some on a cloth and tuck it into my top. It has been quite successful in that I haven’t had a sore bite since starting using it a few years ago. (She says with fingers and toes firmly crossed about to go on a woodland walk).
Ah, yes. Having not had infected bite for years I had forgotten about the emergency pack which included various strngths ofThank you for that. Do you know I never even considered cellulitis so just spoken to the Urgent Care Practitioner at the surgery and it is an infection and she has prescribed me antibiotics after I sent pictures of my leg through! (Never thought I would be doing that!) Obviously have recovered in the past but the itching tends to go on for quite a while and I always end up with scarring due to the bites.
Jungle Juice has always been pretty good but I think I went for a cheaper one last time as JJ was a tenner a pop. GP suggested getting some hydro cortisone cream for the kitchen cupboard as well. I can walk through woods without any problem, it's always the golf course, but very rare to happen in the afternoon, it's usually twilight that's the problem.
Update - Interesting situation when I went to collect my anti biotics. The lady behind the counter in basic chat about insect bites, asked if I was diabetic. Turns out she is too and she suffers "exactly" the same reaction to bites that I do. Bot sure if being diabetic leads us open to worse infection in stuff like this but the symptoms she has were exactly the same.
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