Guest guest Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the homepage for . I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in poison. Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it properly. I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the small stuff!!! Just my two cents! Lori _____ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 > > I'm very interested in this as both dh and son have started reacting to > mosquito bites that same way last year! To make matters worse they both are > beloved by mosquito, meaning everyone else will be spared if either of them is > nearby. And worse still NONE of the insect repellants have worked for my son. > Nothing that we applied on him worked, and also having multiple tablets and > bottles in the room at night didn¹t help. I'm fearing this summer¹s holiday. > > > dh is going to see a general practitioner next week, also taking ds with him, > but we are not very hopeful. Wondering if he should push for > specialist/immunologist referral, would that be of any use? Would taking > something like anti-histamines help? > > > any comments would be appreciated > > > Natasa > > > > > > > > I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really > swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and > they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy > or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a > patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. > > I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years > ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to > , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the > homepage for . > > I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid > mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in poison. > Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal > and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it > properly. > > I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the > small stuff!!! > > Just my two cents! > > Lori > > _____ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 Bug Bites Hey guys If you are seeing bug bites on your kids legs think again! Connor has for ever had what looks the world like bites. Chiggers, mosquito's and the last for ever. A few years ago it would drive me crazy. He picks and I thought he had gotten bitten and he would then pick at them and they would not go away. After his immune system started to heal they eventually went down/away. then scare and his legs a mottled. Last fall I put him in general ed. Strait from a five kid ESE class with a teacher and three assistants to a 1600 kids school, changing classrooms five times a day in fifth grade. It was hard and two or three times a week I was at his school dealing with another incident. That lasted about six weeks while he learned the rules and ropes. Since then it has come under control and I am seldom called. When we were making the transition he would often go to breakfast or before school beg snack foods off other kids, Doritos or Cheetos and I would be call a few hours later due to a meltdown. One day I was in the principle's office because he had lashed out in a melt and I looked dawn and watched (bug bites) hives just erupt on his shins. They were actually hives that were an immune reaction to dairy or dye. The just popped up like chicken pox and went nuts. They itch and he picks at them until the bleed and ooze. Now I watch him get off the bus with his group of five or six friends and I can tell from a distance if he cheated on the diet. These ongoing pocks or hives become inflamed and ooze if he eats the bad foods. If his legs are clear so is his mind and flourishes socially and academically. If his legs are a mess so is he! Bill If you are suffering from bug bites be sure there are bugs and not Cheetos. From: Lori <lbharris@...> Subject: ``rash`` or bug bites Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 4:59 PM Â I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the homepage for . I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in poison. Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it properly. I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the small stuff!!! Just my two cents! Lori _____ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 If your son is beloved by mosquitos, does he eat bananas? That is a big attractor, in our experience. We stop them when mosquito season comes. I heard an herbal remedy that I don't know would be approved on the diet: supposedly you can mix liquid chloraphorm (sp? - that plants make from sunshine) w/water and drink a small amount of that, and it is supposed to change the 'scent' and repel mosquitos. Brewers yeast works but that is definitely *not* approved on the diet. HTH ________________________________ From: Neno/Natasa <neno@...> Sent: Sat, April 17, 2010 4:55:55 PM Subject: Re: ``rash`` or bug bites  > > I'm very interested in this as both dh and son have started reacting to > mosquito bites that same way last year! To make matters worse they both are > beloved by mosquito, meaning everyone else will be spared if either of them is > nearby. And worse still NONE of the insect repellants have worked for my son. > Nothing that we applied on him worked, and also having multiple tablets and > bottles in the room at night didn¹t help. I'm fearing this summer¹s holiday. > > > dh is going to see a general practitioner next week, also taking ds with him, > but we are not very hopeful. Wondering if he should push for > specialist/immunolo gist referral, would that be of any use? Would taking > something like anti-histamines help? > > > any comments would be appreciated > > > Natasa > > > > > > > > I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really > swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and > they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy > or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a > patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. > > I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years > ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to > , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the > homepage for . > > I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid > mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in poison. > Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal > and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it > properly. > > I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the > small stuff!!! > > Just my two cents! > > Lori > > _____ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 That is not the point. My son is not exposed to insects at the times he gets " bug bites " . they are hives, What I see appear happens after diet infractions and then take weeks to heal (I can tell by these marks how healthy his immune system is), no walks in the woods or environmental exposure. When they are gone he is great and flying through developmental stages, When they are inflamed he is regressing and it can take weeks for him to recover and start moving forward again. They are on the outer extremities and look the world like bites, but they are not. If he repeats the bad diet issues they continue or progress to small boils. once healed if he again eats bad foods the original boils re-inflames at the same locations, no new bite. This is an immune response to foods not bugs or bananas. I have watched it happen in an hour or two after a party or a visit from someone that thinks he can have these foods. Bill From: <thecolemans4@...> Subject: Re: ``rash`` or bug bites Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 11:13 PM  If your son is beloved by mosquitos, does he eat bananas? That is a big attractor, in our experience. We stop them when mosquito season comes. I heard an herbal remedy that I don't know would be approved on the diet: supposedly you can mix liquid chloraphorm (sp? - that plants make from sunshine) w/water and drink a small amount of that, and it is supposed to change the 'scent' and repel mosquitos. Brewers yeast works but that is definitely *not* approved on the diet. HTH ____________ _________ _________ __ From: Neno/Natasa <nenodalmaholidays (DOT) co.uk> groups (DOT) com Sent: Sat, April 17, 2010 4:55:55 PM Subject: Re: ``rash`` or bug bites > > I'm very interested in this as both dh and son have started reacting to > mosquito bites that same way last year! To make matters worse they both are > beloved by mosquito, meaning everyone else will be spared if either of them is > nearby. And worse still NONE of the insect repellants have worked for my son. > Nothing that we applied on him worked, and also having multiple tablets and > bottles in the room at night didn¹t help. I'm fearing this summer¹s holiday. > > > dh is going to see a general practitioner next week, also taking ds with him, > but we are not very hopeful. Wondering if he should push for > specialist/immunolo gist referral, would that be of any use? Would taking > something like anti-histamines help? > > > any comments would be appreciated > > > Natasa > > > > > > > > I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really > swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and > they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy > or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a > patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. > > I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years > ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to > , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the > homepage for . > > I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid > mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in poison. > Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal > and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it > properly. > > I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the > small stuff!!! > > Just my two cents! > > Lori > > _____ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Natasa, Benadryl does help some kids. Another thing we¹ve used is a tiny dab of Emla cream (with a bandaid over it) on the bite when it is itching. One more thing we Œve done.... I don¹t know where in the world Iearned this, but for some reason it does seem to help... you make an ³X² with your fingernail on top of the bite. It must confuse the nerve endings or something. It¹s weird but sometimes it does help the itching and it¹s better than scratching! Caroline G. P.S. I just found this link... interesting... http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2008/07/mosquito_bites.html > I'm very interested in this as both dh and son have started reacting to > mosquito bites that same way last year! To make matters worse they both are > beloved by mosquito, meaning everyone else will be spared if either of them is > nearby. And worse still NONE of the insect repellants have worked for my son. > Nothing that we applied on him worked, and also having multiple tablets and > bottles in the room at night didn¹t help. I'm fearing this summer¹s holiday. > > > dh is going to see a general practitioner next week, also taking ds with him, > but we are not very hopeful. Wondering if he should push for > specialist/immunologist referral, would that be of any use? Would taking > something like anti-histamines help? > > > any comments would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 My NT son gets baseball sized lumps from mosquitoes...its scary. I have to be so careful with him. He also gets very very crabby for a few days until the swelling decreases. I never knew anyone else who went through that. > > Natasa, > > Benadryl does help some kids. > > Another thing we¹ve used is a tiny dab of Emla cream (with a bandaid over > it) on the bite when it is itching. > > One more thing we Œve done.... I don¹t know where in the world Iearned this, > but for some reason it does seem to help... you make an ³X² with your > fingernail on top of the bite. It must confuse the nerve endings or > something. It¹s weird but sometimes it does help the itching and it¹s > better than scratching! > > Caroline G. > > P.S. I just found this link... interesting... > > http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2008/07/mosquito_bites.html > > > > I'm very interested in this as both dh and son have started reacting to > > mosquito bites that same way last year! To make matters worse they both are > > beloved by mosquito, meaning everyone else will be spared if either of them is > > nearby. And worse still NONE of the insect repellants have worked for my son. > > Nothing that we applied on him worked, and also having multiple tablets and > > bottles in the room at night didn¹t help. I'm fearing this summer¹s holiday. > > > > > > dh is going to see a general practitioner next week, also taking ds with him, > > but we are not very hopeful. Wondering if he should push for > > specialist/immunologist referral, would that be of any use? Would taking > > something like anti-histamines help? > > > > > > any comments would be appreciated > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Banana consumption makes you give off a scent that draws mosquitoes to you, so if skeeters tend to like you, remove bananas from your diet for the skeeter season. I've recently started using tea tree oil on the mosquito bites to get rid of the itch. My daughter says it works great. I don't know what other health properties tea tree oil has, but it's a lot better, I'm sure, than chemical anti-itch creams. Prior to that, I used Bach's Rescue Cream which also works well. Dena www.listenbetterwithAIT.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 > > thanks Bill and , > > for our son it is def bites, not hives. We live in the UK and he never ever > gets them here (no mosquitos here), only while we were on holidays in souther > Europe last summer and again last month. We also caught the buggers ¡®In > flagrante¡¯ a few times. His diet is no different there, no different foods. > > another ¡®proof¡¯ is that the bites were not there the first few days of our > stay, as it was still too cold and no mosquitos. They literally started > ¡®hatching¡¯ (whatever they do) while we were there. > > , I wonder if chloraphorm would be present in algae supplements?? > > > Natasa > > > > > > That is not the point. My son is not exposed to insects at the times he gets > " bug bites " . they are hives, What I see appear happens after diet infractions > and then take weeks to heal (I can tell by these marks how healthy his immune > system is), no walks in the woods or environmental exposure. When they are > gone he is great and flying through developmental stages, When they are > inflamed he is regressing and it can take weeks for him to recover and start > moving forward again. They are on the outer extremities and look the world > like bites, but they are not. If he repeats the bad diet issues they continue > or progress to small boils. once healed if he again eats bad foods the > original boils re-inflames at the same locations, no new bite. This is an > immune response to foods not bugs or bananas. > > I have watched it happen in an hour or two after a party or a visit from > someone that thinks he can have these foods. > Bill > > > > From: <thecolemans4@... > <mailto:thecolemans4%40> > > Subject: Re: ``rash`` or bug bites > <mailto:%40> > Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 11:13 PM > > ? > > If your son is beloved by mosquitos, does he eat bananas? That is a big > attractor, in our experience. We stop them when mosquito season comes. > > I heard an herbal remedy that I don't know would be approved on the diet: > supposedly you can mix liquid chloraphorm (sp? - that plants make from > sunshine) w/water and drink a small amount of that, and it is supposed to > change the 'scent' and repel mosquitos. Brewers yeast works but that is > definitely *not* approved on the diet. > > HTH > > > > ____________ _________ _________ __ > > From: Neno/Natasa <nenodalmaholidays (DOT) co.uk> > > groups (DOT) com > > Sent: Sat, April 17, 2010 4:55:55 PM > > Subject: Re: ``rash`` or bug bites > >> > > >> > I'm very interested in this as both dh and son have started reacting to > >> > mosquito bites that same way last year! To make matters worse they both are > >> > beloved by mosquito, meaning everyone else will be spared if either of them >> is > >> > nearby. And worse still NONE of the insect repellants have worked for my >> son. > >> > Nothing that we applied on him worked, and also having multiple tablets and > >> > bottles in the room at night didn©öt help. I'm fearing this summer©ös >> holiday. > >> > > >> > > >> > dh is going to see a general practitioner next week, also taking ds with >> him, > >> > but we are not very hopeful. Wondering if he should push for > >> > specialist/immunolo gist referral, would that be of any use? Would taking > >> > something like anti-histamines help? > >> > > >> > > >> > any comments would be appreciated > >> > > >> > > >> > Natasa > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really > >> > swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and > >> > they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy > >> > or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a > >> > patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. > >> > > >> > I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years > >> > ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to > >> > , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the > >> > homepage for . > >> > > >> > I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid > >> > mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in >> poison. > >> > Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal > >> > and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it > >> > properly. > >> > > >> > I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the > >> > small stuff!!! > >> > > >> > Just my two cents! > >> > > >> > Lori > >> > > >> > _____ > >> > > >> > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 > > ps interesting, I've suspected diary in meldowns as well (no hives here), > oddly ds seems to be ok with yogurth, even cow¹s dairy yogurth has anyone > else noticed that. > > > > > > Bug Bites > Hey guys > If you are seeing bug bites on your kids legs think again! > Connor has for ever had what looks the world like bites. Chiggers, mosquito's > and the last for ever. A few years ago it would drive me crazy. He picks and I > thought he had gotten bitten and he would then pick at them and they would not > go away. > > After his immune system started to heal they eventually went down/away. then > scare and his legs a mottled. Last fall I put him in general ed. Strait from a > five kid ESE class with a teacher and three assistants to a 1600 kids school, > changing classrooms five times a day in fifth grade. It was hard and two or > three times a week I was at his school dealing with another incident. That > lasted about six weeks while he learned the rules and ropes. Since then it has > come under control and I am seldom called. > > When we were making the transition he would often go to breakfast or before > school beg snack foods off other kids, Doritos or Cheetos and I would be call > a few hours later due to a meltdown. > > One day I was in the principle's office because he had lashed out in a melt > and I looked dawn and watched (bug bites) hives just erupt on his shins. They > were actually hives that were an immune reaction to dairy or dye. The just > popped up like chicken pox and went nuts. They itch and he picks at them until > the bleed and ooze. > > Now I watch him get off the bus with his group of five or six friends and I > can tell from a distance if he cheated on the diet. These ongoing pocks or > hives become inflamed and ooze if he eats the bad foods. If his legs are clear > so is his mind and flourishes socially and academically. If his legs are a > mess so is he! > > Bill > > If you are suffering from bug bites be sure there are bugs and not Cheetos. > > > > From: Lori <lbharris@... <mailto:lbharris%40cogeco.ca> > > Subject: ``rash`` or bug bites > <mailto:%40> > Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 4:59 PM > > > > I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really > > swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and > > they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy > > or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a > > patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. > > I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years > > ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to > > , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the > > homepage for . > > I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid > > mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in poison. > > Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal > > and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it > > properly. > > I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the > > small stuff!!! > > Just my two cents! > > Lori > > _____ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Mosquitos hate B vitamins. Especially B1. I haven't tried this because we take a ton of B vitamins and haven't had an insect problem since starting the vitamins 3 years ago. But this is a B1 patch available at Walmart and Bass Pro Shops. Our doc says most of the population is B vitamin deficient; so good for all to beef up the B's. http://www.insectdefendpatch.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Yeah, this happens to my daughter. The octor kept saying they were mosquito bites (in the dead of winter when mosquitoes were not out!). I knew they were not mosquito bites, They would appear and disappear. I thought it was the red dye (and still might be). I never thought about dairy until recently (until we discovered my son has a problem with casein). Now, I am beginning to wonder if the longstanding neurological issues in my family are all to blame from casein. (Not to mention the ear fluid issues and lymph issues). This same daughter has extreme meltdowns and I think it is the casein. They do not want to stop eating cheese (cow) and using milk for cereal, but I simply stopped buying the cereal and the cheese. I seriously wonder about those *rashes*/*bug bite look-a-likes* because they are gone on her legs now (and the mosquitoes are in season...go figure). > > From: Lori <lbharris@...> > Subject: ``rash`` or bug bites > > Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 4:59 PM > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > > > > > I also ``react`` to insect bites, i.e. mosquito bites where they really > > swell and get a clear or sometimes yellow fluid that runs out of them and > > they get crusty and gross. If I itch or I pick at them, they do get pussy > > or infected looking and will be there for years! My one son who is a > > patient of Dr. G`s also has the same reaction. > > > > I do recall a discussion about ``odd`` reactions to bug bits a few years > > ago. Perhaps one of the ``old timers`` like or Caroline ( old to > > , ; ) ) may remember, or you could search the discussion on the > > homepage for . > > > > I never really worry about it to much. It is hard to completely avoid > > mosquito bites unless you completely cover yourself or your child in poison. > > Like most things with a dysfunctional immune system, I believe it will heal > > and have a more normal reaction when the immune system can handle it > > properly. > > > > I tend to put my focus on the big picture and not sweat or worry about the > > small stuff!!! > > > > Just my two cents! > > > > Lori > > > > _____ > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Applying mineral oil after showering or just before going out helps. Mosquitos do not like oil because they cannot breed in it. (Not saying they are breeding when they bite, however.) > > Banana consumption makes you give off a scent that draws mosquitoes to you, > so if skeeters tend to like you, remove bananas from your diet for the > skeeter season. > > I've recently started using tea tree oil on the mosquito bites to get rid of > the itch. My daughter says it works great. I don't know what other health > properties tea tree oil has, but it's a lot better, I'm sure, than chemical > anti-itch creams. Prior to that, I used Bach's Rescue Cream which also > works well. > > Dena > > www.listenbetterwithAIT.com > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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