- You can dab a little lavender oil on the bite. This will reduce the swelling and also stop the itchiness. The lavender oil is available in a roll-on bottle and is non-greasy and very clean.
- Another remedy would be by applying a wrapped ice cube once the itching starts.
- An old folk's remedy would be by eating a slice of marmite toast every morning. Mosquitoes seem to dislike the taste of it.
- Use a cotton ball soaked in vinegar on the mosquito bite. The smell is very unpleasant, but it stops that itching.
- Another old folk's remedy is the copper penny. Tape a copper penny to the bite and it is said that the itching stops almost immediately and tomorrow the bite will be gone. What makes this remedy believable is the fact that 59 people agree.
- White vinegar applied to the mosquito bite and rubbed over with a banana peel stops itching.
- Baking soda mixed with water to a paste and applied to mosquito bites work great to stop the itchiness.
Apply cool tap water on the bitten part .
Give a homeopathic remedy called aconite 30 or ledum pal 30 2 pills to
the 3 year old .Repeat remedy 3 times 8 hourly .
It isn't necessary that everyone who gets exposed to insect venom should develop an allergy; in fact only few have a tendency to react to insect bites and in that very few will show up fatal symptoms. Usually when venom is transferred on to a normal person the symptoms are mild, but when the infected is someone who is already allergic, the situation can take a graver course.
Insect bite is painful and the area of the skin can appear puffy with red bumps that might fade away in the matter of hours.
But if the situation persists over a couple of hours and more, and in the due course invades your lungs and heart, then it can contribute to an anaphylactic reaction. This is when the insect allergy becomes fatal and life-threatening. Researches prove that anaphylaxis related reaction can lead to death, though in rare cases.
Bedbugs can also cause insect allergy. These are pale brown insects that appear on your beddings and soft sofas and that eat your blood. As the insects attack when the person is sleeping or relaxing, the affected would hardly know that he had been bitten by a bedbug unless he spots the symptoms.
Bedbug allergy causes swelling that is hard and discoloured, and might sometimes carry an unpleasant smell. In most cases these are not harmful, but there can be instances where even a bedbug can cause anaphylaxis reaction.
Certain skin types might develop an allergy when bitten by mosquitoes. These may appear as deep red swellings on the surface of the skin. There can be rare instances where mosquito bites can be deadly, as female mosquitoes are the transmitters of certain severe diseases.