[BuffaloJack]

Bill can go to it. I haven’t had a mosquito bite in 4 years.

I discovered that if I take a 100mg B1 tablet daily, since my body only uses a fraction of the dose, the balance comes out on my skin in my sweat and the mosquitos leave me alone. 100 tablets of B1 costs about $4, so that’s 4 cents a day.

[Salamander]

I’ll try that because they consider me a delicacy.

The people up the hill have a skeeter breeding swamp about which they will do nothing.

The things are like small birds.

[alexander_busek]

I discovered that if I take a 100mg B1 tablet daily, since my body only uses a fraction of the dose, the balance comes out on my skin in my sweat and the mosquitos leave me alone.

I imagine that much of the B₁ (i.e., Thiamine) is metabolized by your body and excreted through your kidneys*, and thus wasted. Wouldn't just rubbing 100 mg of B₁ directly onto your skin have the same or similar effect? Or is it perhaps the metabolites that are responsible for the mosquito-repellent effect?

Regards,

*Thiamine and its acid metabolites (2-methyl-4-amino-5-pyrimidine carboxylic acid, 4-methyl-thiazole-5-acetic acid, and thiamine acetic acid) are excreted principally in the urine. -Wikipedia

[RinaseaofDs]

That’s a good tip!

I’ll give that a go.

[DesertRhino]

It also works if you take a sulfur tablet. It comes out in your sweat and mosquitoes won’t bite you. I learned that in the Marines. The only downside, is that every time you pass gas, it smells like the gates of hell opened up.