Mosquito Bite Treatment - Mosquito Bite Swelling

There can be many reasons why you might get a mosquito bite swelling, however, it is usually a mild allergic reaction. If you move to somewhere new, you will often get a mosquito bite swelling, but after a few months or longer mosquito bite swelling will not occur. Sometimes it takes a lot longer for your body to build up a tolerance. Eighteen months, if you move to another country.

Mosquito Bite Swelling

Mosquito bites irritate because when a female mosquito bites you, she squirts saliva containing proteins and enzymes into the wound. This saliva has several purposes that we know of: it anaesthetizes the area of the bite and makes your blood flow more freely (anti-coagulant). It may also include a weak antiseptic.

However, these proteins and enzymes are sooner or later picked up on by your body’s immune system (usually within 24 hours) and your body releases antibodies and histamines in an attempt to defend itself from the antigens that the mosquito has injected into the lesion. These histamines are the real source of the irritation from mosquito bites.

This is where the hassle starts. Most people suffer from a little itching and a small hard bump. This mosquito bite swelling is not what is meant by an allergic reaction, although it is actually an allergic reaction causing the mosquito bite swelling. True allergic reactions are much worse and frequently require professional treatment. You will realize if you are allergic.

Some individuals go on to become tolerant to mosquito saliva and hardly show any mosquito bite swelling at all. In my experience, this takes 18-24 months of being bitten daily. It is not worth letting mosquitoes bite you in order to reach this state.

Mosquito Bite Treatment

There are many types of moquito bite treatment. There are the natural, home remedy types of misquito bite treatment and their are the over-the-counter types.

Since the peoples of every country in the world suffers from mosquito bites, it is quite natural that there are many favourite mosquito bite treatments too.

I now live in Thailand where the mosquitoes are prolific to say the least and Thais have their favourite mosquito bite treatment too. Most Thais that I know, don't actually treat themselves for bites, but that is because mosquito bites in your own locality rarely hurt much.

However, they recommend as their favourite mosquito bite treatment to others the inside of a bannana skin or the sap of an aloe vera leaf, bith of which are easily obtained. I have used these mosquito bite treatments, but I prefer a green cream you can buy in almost any shop. It comes in a small round tin like an old snuff tin. It is similar to Tiger Balm, but better.

I don't know what it is called, because everyone says 'green cream', but it is definitely my favourite mosquito bite treatment.