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To: Salamander

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.


5 posted on 02/26/2021 4:28:34 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: BuffaloJack

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.


10 posted on 02/26/2021 4:31:40 AM PST by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: BuffaloJack
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

21 posted on 02/26/2021 4:46:20 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BuffaloJack

That’s a good tip!

I’ll give that a go.


42 posted on 02/26/2021 5:51:46 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: BuffaloJack

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.


60 posted on 02/26/2021 8:05:39 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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