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This warm weather is wonderful, but the downside of all this time spent on my bike in the countryside is the amount of insect bites on my legs and the itching and how swollen a couple of them are is driving me nuts.
Can anyone recommend a repellant and also something to sooth the itching?
Can't help on the bites but I had my first 'run the nettle gauntlet in dog poo woods' ride earlier of the year this week so you have my sympathy.
Ps: I'll try and ride Stanmer on sunday night and see how it's drying out. Cheers luke
aftersun on nettle stings, don't do it !!! other than that fab riding day best of the year, really looking forward to tomorrows epic 🙂
Great. I should be free for a ride most evenings next week.
Camomile cream on the bites and a couple of antihistamine tablets down your hatch.
What he said
Man up and embrace the itchy?
deet is the only repellent worth getting.. it's almost totally effective..
but it stinks and feels like turps on your skin.. and don't get it on your lips or eyes.. or confuse it with veet..
Anthisan cream and a hay fever tablet for itches.
used to use a this one brand of moisturiser when i was in the navy out in iraq to keep the insects off (was on a royal marine squadron)think it was nivia skin so soft or something like that il remember by morning but the bugs used to hate it plus side soft skin win win
ps wwent out wednesday night and im feeling your itching pain as im lying here bed with glandular fever and midge bites feeling like complete hell wishing it would go away as its been so sunny and nice out 😥
Avon skin so soft
Jungle formula, extra strong
It's full of chemicals but 100% effective, you get used to the smell, only downside it that as you sweat it eventually works its way into eyes and mouth
pop the pills, get some antihystamines from the supermarket
avon skin so soft thats the kitty i used to use it all the time to keep the biting blighters at bay dont sting yours when you sweat either 😆
You have my sympathy too, I've recently started itching due to an allergy (didn't know I had any allergies) and I take a prescription anti-histamine twice a day which has made it bearable.
Try an over the counter anti-histamine but don't bother withe really cheap ones!
Good luck!
It's the citronella (sp) in Avon skin so soft that does the trick. You can get it in shampoo, shower gel, moisturiser etc. Use them all. Keep the bugs off and smell lemony fresh.
You have my sympathies. Bitten to shreds last weekend. Very small little bites but ridiculously itchy 12-24 hrs later. Yesterday, missed the bites but massive stingers everywhere and ripped legs and hands from razorsharp gorse. All in the name of fun!!!!!
Autan Plus - good for ticks too
Skin-so-soft is pretty decent, seems to have kept most of the little swine off me recently
Anthisan for when u do get bitten.
Anti-histamine to keep the itching down.
Benzyl benzoate works very well and is the best thing for harvest mites as it kills them rather than just releaving the itching.
Avon skin so soft 1st class stuff used it for a number of years to keep our scottish midges away.If you can buy it from a avon rep its lot cheaper than buying from the outdoor shops up here.It also smells not that bad to