Tip 1: Cold Helps
A cold compress relieves the heat and pain. The Cold Suppresses The Itch, Explains Dermatologist Birgitte Visch. “The Skin Becomes a Little Numb, The Blood Flow is Slightly Reduced, and the Cold Distracts.” So keep a bag of Ice Cubes in a Cloth, A Wet Washcloth, or a Bag of Frozen Peas on the Bump for a While.
Tip 2: Generously Apply Zinc Ointment
A cream with zinc oxide, such as the well-known Sudocrem for babies, provides short-term Itch relief, this research shows. The (Only 41) Participants Experienced Less Itching After A Bite When They Applied The Zinc Cream to Their Bump. Furthermore, The Ointment Did Nothing: The Bite Did Not Get Smaller, Nor Did It Go Away Faster.
The Product is Safe and May Be An Option, The Scientists Conclude. The Menthol in the Cream Cools A Bit, And Cooling Helps, Says Visch. “That’s why people also apply toothpaste and menthol powder. It relieves the itch for a moment.”
Tip 3: DAB Something Acidic on the Bump
Vinegar or the juice of a lemon or lime: applying something acidic does help a bit. The acid stings a little, which overrides the itching stimulus caused by the itchy substance that has entered your body: histamine. It evaporates on the skin, which again gives a cooling effect.
Tip 4: Distract Yourself
You feel more itch if you pay a lot of attention to the itching stimulus, accordance to research by biochemist Antoinette van Laarhoven. If you are distracted by a certain task, you feel less itch. If the itch nerves take over, it is nice to letterly suppress that itch with a pain stimulus. The familiar trick of making a cross in the Bump Helps because you don’t feel the itch for a moment.
Hard scratching, Hitting Yourself, OR Pushing Your Nails Into the Bump Distracts, but is not really recommended accordance to fish. You can Damage Your Skin With It, And It Takes Longer For The Itch To Really Go Away. Do a chore to distract yourself, read something interesting, go downstairs for a drink, and keep the bump cold.
Tip 5: Scratching is Nice, But Control Yourself
If you feel a mosquito crawling on your skin, it itches, and you can swat it away immediately. This Prevents A Foreign Substance from Enterting the Skin, Knows Allergist Hanneke Oude Elberink. So itching has a very useful function.
Scratching your mosquito bite feels good, but scratching the skin open is not a good idea. This can lead to infections. You don’t scratch the poison or saliva out anyway, Emphasizes Oude Elberink. “Saliva only contains proteins that can move quickly. You don’t scratch that out. Unfortunately, scratching is only Detrimal.”
Control Yourself, Dermatologist Visch As Well. By scratching, you activate the blood vessels, and the itch gets worse. You can induce eczema and scratch wounds into it. Then you are worse off.
“Remember that the itch is only temporary. You can suppress it well by cooling. Maddening itching is usually not the itch of a mosquito bite; we see that more of with kidney diseases or diabetes.”
Tip 6: Apply Hormone Cream to Your Bump
Hormone Cream Should Be Applied Immediately After The Bite, Says the Allergist. Corticosteroid Cream or Hormone Cream (That’s the Same Thing) has an anti-inflammatory effect. That calms the inflammatory reaction in the skin.
This Cream is not freely avisable but is Prescribed for, for example, Eczema, Says dermatologist Visch. Some people are extra sensitive to mosquito bites, such as adults who had eczema, hay fever, or asthma as children. In Them, The Bumps Are Larger, And The Itching is More Severe.
“If you happen to have such a tube lying around, you can put a little on it. Don’t do that prevention, and not too too or too much. It is a safe product, but down the strange things, like using the cream as a day cream for months.”
Tip 7: Take an Allergy Tablet
The itch of a mosquito bite is caused by histamine. To suppress that, you can take antihistamines. The drug is also available as a cream, such as azaron. Antihistamine tablets and creams are freely avialable at the supermarket and drugstore.
Paracetamol and Aspirin Work Against the Pain and also Against the Itch, But According to Visch, it is Quite an Exaggeration for a Mosquito Bite.