Hi Insectbite and welcome to GoY. Do you know which insect it is that is biting you? Other than citronella candles and using inset repellant I'm not sure there is a lot you can do.

Go to nhs.uk/conditions/insect bites, use an insect repelant with a high deet content.

Depends on what is biting, all biting insects find me very tasty

Regards

If you have stagnant water close by, they could be mosquitos, they breed in still water, I have the same reaction to their bites.

When we were in Greece a few years ago we were using lemon juice. Cut a lemon in half and place it in a cup of warm water for a few minuets then wash yourself with the juice and that’s it also social garlic plants are supposed to work

This sounds like Gnat bites as they blister. I get badly bitten in my garden, but I have learnt to avoid gardening in the evenings as this was when I got the most painful swollen bites. But if you require antibiotics this sounds worse than mine even so I am surprised you are prescribed them every time? The thing I also found was not to scratch them and keep the bite area cool especially at bedtime a topical antihistamine also helps me

When I get bitten, I have huge areas that swell and even bruise. I once got bitten on the inside of my calf and it bruised from sock to knee!
I used Eurax lotion on the bite - it's a bit like calomine lotion but doesn't go white. It takes the sting right out of it.

My son reacts like this to bites, usually from mosquitoes or gnats as they're commonly called. Remove all standing water containers, empty anything that has water in it -if you live near a canal or river, or a large body of still water, then you're a bit stuck. My son's bites would get infected pretty easily - they once sent him home from school thinking he'd got something infectious, but its the scratching that causes the problem with infection, and the answer to that I found was to buy a cream called Solarcaine - its actually designed for sunburn, but applied to a bite, it numbs it and so you don't scratch all the time, which helps prevent infection. We never found the anti histamine ointments much use, frankly - methods of managing the situation meant his not being outside from dusk onwards, nets over all windows, and a little bit of kit that made a high pitched whining noise that kept them away from him at nights whilst asleep. Then we moved - and the problem stopped - no mosquitoes, which I suspect were coming from the neighbour's rather large and still pond.

take a periton type tablet and use antihistamine cream on the bites. I too suffer like this and this is the only way i can get relief.

I'm one of the lucky ones and don't get bitten much but my wife swears by "Marmite" eaten on toast most mornings, she says that it gives of a yeasty smell through the skin which mosquitoes don't like, seems to work for her.

i think I'd rather get bitten than eat Marmite!!!!

They don't like cigarette smoke much either...

Could use the marmite as a cream!!!!

Now far be it for me to advertise but there is a spray called skin so soft which is sold through the catalogue that sells women's cosmetics, and it is supposed to work better than most of the jungle type insect repellents. Its really cheap and worth a try. It might smell a bit feminine though!! Far better than fags and garlic I would think.

Not if you're a smoker, Cammomile, lol!

Thank you all for your helpful msgs.

I take anti histamin tablets which seemto help with both hayfever and insect bites. I find germaline ointment very helpful. It is an antiseptic and anesthasises the area.

I was a smoker Bamboo for 40 years but decided to give it up about 5 years ago. Unfortunately I then found wine - and garlic!!