I react really badly to midge bites. I'm sure that I'm not alone in this so I'm after advice re: a really effective anti midge itch remedy.🦟
I like Marmite a lot. I do use Smidge so I no longer use 'skin so soft', not that I was ever impressed by it's supposedly repellent efficacy.
I'm wanting something to reduce the itching after the inevitable bites have happened.
TIA
Are you taking antihistamines? Do that if not.
Antihistamine cream, your smidge doesn’t sound effective.
I currently take daily antihistamine tablets and I use Anthisan after any insect bites (including midge).
Thanks both, I'll get some in the morning. By some, I mean loads so that it's in the car, all my riding bags, kitchen drawer, bathroom cabinet, bedside table...
Fenistil Gel & Antihistamine work for me.
RM.
For me, whining about it and skritching myself to buggery antihistamine day 1, topical steroid after that (steady with steroid if it's big areas of skin and frequent use though)
If there's only a few isolated ones, either a little electric shock device (a few quid on amazon) or a slightly more expensive heat applicator (battery powered hot spoon basically). They really work
Anthisan.
My wife got this stuff a few years back in Japan. Available on eBay, way more effective than anthisan
Daily cetirizine (anti-histamine) . Also works on stinging nettles.
+ whatever for the little battery-powered heated gadget things. I have one of the Beurer ones - I react really badly to horsefly bites - and it takes the edge off them pretty much instantly. Dentures the proteins that you react to or something. I guess the issue with midges is that you're dealing, probably, with multiple small bites rather than one or two larger ones, but the principle holds good, I guess.
I react pretty badly to midges too - yellow blisters. Mosquito bites often end up pretty big and inflamed too
Fenistil gel does work pretty well but I might try the heat pen / key things. I did have a gadget that gave you a little localised electric shock, but can't say they did anything beyond hurting a bit.
dunno where she got it from, but partner gave me this to treat bites on my arm, itching stopped straight away. Antisan, After Nip, Germoline, none worked any where near as well.
I try to remember to apply insect repellent before I go to archery, I’ve been bitten a few times, but no idea what by, I’ve never seen or felt anything, but I’d get very large, itchy lumps come up that would get rather weepy.
I use Hydrocortisone cream from Boots, a 15g tube lasts for ages, especially if I remember to use spray or roll-on before going to the range, which has proved effective, thankfully - I wrote a reminder on the hall mirror, other I’d forget every time!
+ whatever for the little battery-powered heated gadget things. I have one of the Beurer ones - I react really badly to horsefly bites - and it takes the edge off them pretty much instantly. Dentures the proteins that you react to or something. I guess the issue with midges is that you're dealing, probably, with multiple small bites rather than one or two larger ones, but the principle holds good, I guess.
Denatures the proteins rather than dentures, obviously, rendering them toothless.
Agreed on the beurer heat devices, they work really well. I have one at home and one in the car now
You lot are putting me off going to Scotland at the end of August - I'll live in a space suit. 🤣
Anything with aloe Vera.
Especially when combined with tea tree oil.
afaik, Holland & Barret sell an organic combination, sometimes a ‘buy 2, get another free’ deal.
though. the tt oil is an effective deterrent in itself.
ive also found mouthwash (the kind with alcohol as the main ingredient) works great when applied to clothing.
at this time of year in particular, the alcohol evaporates and cools the clothes, and at the same time, seems to suck the irritation from the bite.
careful around the campfire!!!
Any bite cream that has lidocaine/lignocaine. We have one called Soov. It works.
I use one of the little piezo electric clickers on a bite afterwards, it does work somehow
There's also a little heated coil thing that you put on the bite to kill the itchiness. Like a tech powered hot spoon. Usually USB/phone powered
Another vote for the little heat devices. They are the most effective thing i have ever used and wouldnt be without one. Horseflies by us are a bugger. The Beurer one above. Thank me later.
