The weather is getting hotter and the first wave of mosquitoes has arrived at the scene of the "battle". At night, I heard the annoying "buzzing" sound and wanted to kill them all, but I couldn't find the hateful mosquito. If one is not careful, his little baby will be bitten all over the bag.
So when the baby is bitten, how to correctly stop itching and reduce swelling?
1. Soapy water cleaning
Immediately after being bitten by a mosquito, washing the bite site with alkaline soapy water can quickly relieve itching and prevent lumps. When the baby is no longer itchy, wipe the soapy water clean. It can also soothe and relieve itching, inhibit bacteria and eliminate redness.
2. Essential plant soothing liquid for all travelers
If you can't wash it with soapy water in time, you can usually carry a bottle of plant soothing liquid with you, and the first time you are bitten can relieve itching, inhibit bacteria and reduce redness, and the large bag can also quickly fade, which is more than enough to deal with mosquito bags. The natural plant ingredients inside, using spring chrysanthemum and geranium, in addition to swelling and pain relief, but also have the effect of healing wounds, can effectively antibacterial and anti-virus to promote skin recovery.
3. Cold compresses to reduce swelling
Cold water or ice packs wrapped in a towel can avoid the spread of redness and swelling and relieve itching and pain. In addition, remember to cut the baby's nails short in time to avoid the baby scratching the wound.
If the place where the mosquito has been bitten has appeared in a large area of swelling, rupture, discharge, or even fever, it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time.
So how can parents not let the baby be stung?
Use less soap for bathing. In general, mosquitoes like to eat nectar, so after using floral-scented items such as perfumes, cosmetics, and creams, the probability of being bitten by mosquitoes increases.
Eat more vegetables. Some vegetables contain mosquitoes do not like the smell, such as carotene-containing vegetables and garlic and other spicy vegetables, after people eat, mosquitoes will stay away from you.
Wear light-coloured clothing. Aedes mosquitoes (also known as flower spotted mosquitoes) prefer to stop on black clothes.
Try to wear socks. After wearing socks, mosquitoes feel that the humidity of the human skin is reduced, the volatiles on the skin surface are reduced, and the bites are reduced.
What are the misunderstandings of being stung in the summer?
Myth 1: Apply vitamin B1 to repel mosquitoes
Although vitamins are good things, researchers in the United States have found through experimental studies many years ago that vitamin B1 has no effect on the number of times mosquitoes fall on the surface of the skin, so vitamin B1 does not produce any artifact mosquito repellent effect. Of course, vitamin B1 is a water-soluble vitamin, and smearing or spraying on the skin will not cause any great harm.
Myth 2: Use electronic mosquito repellent to repel mosquitoes
At present, there is no sufficient evidence to prove that the electronic repellent has a repellent effect on pests, such as anti-mosquito bracelets, anti-mosquito APP, and from the principle of electronic repellent, it must emit ultrasonic waves to achieve mosquito repellent effect, but long-term ultrasound will cause certain harm to the human body, especially some electronic repellents will also make noise, affecting the normal rest of children.
Myth 3: Use mosquito repellent grass to repel mosquitoes
Mosquito repellent grass itself has a certain anti-mosquito effect, but if you want to achieve the ability to help the human body repellent mosquitoes is the need for a very large amount of mosquito repellent grass to play an effect, just put a pot of two pots of mosquito repellent grass will not have much effect on mosquito repellent, but as a plant will not produce any harm.
Myth 4: Use mosquito repellent stickers to repel mosquitoes
This type of mosquito repellent product is generally based on natural plant essential oil ingredients to repel mosquitoes, and lemongrass, mosquito repellent grass, lemongrass, cloves, peppermint and other natural plants and their essential oils, indeed have a certain repellent effect, if it really contains natural plant essential oils, the price is generally more expensive. However, most of the essential oils currently on the market belong to chemical synthetic essential oils, which are not only harmful to the human body, but also easy to cause skin allergies and skin diseases in babies.
Today we learned about the tricks and misunderstandings of mosquito repellent, and I believe that parents will also protect their children. If you have any questions, you are welcome to leave a message, I will reply one by one.