I‘m using a gel from the pharmacy called Euceta, it has these ingredients:
100 g gel contain: Active substance: aluminium acetate tartrate Other ingredients: Propylene glycol, ethanol, hydroxyethyl cellulose, polysorbate, acetic acid, sodium hydroxide, purified water; camphor, rose and camomile aroma
Works on all sorts of stuff like the bug bites but also sunburn.
Scratch like crazy till your body reacts, and then never ever do that again. Eventually you have as close to an immunity as possible. Source: I grew up next to a swamp.
If you've got several all over, I use an antihistamine like Benadryl or even Allegra. The itchiness is an allergic reaction and the antihistamine helps to calm your immune system down.
I vouch for this. I found a video years ago showing a benadryl pill being crushed in a small bowl and just enough water added to make a paste, then spread over the bite. Works well with the nagging mosquito bites!
Hydrocortisone, for whatever reason, hasn't helped me with this.
I'm just reading all of these comments and chuckling into my coffee. Do none of you use OTC Topical corticosteroids like normal people? Itching is gone for 12 hours.
100% a placebo and bad habit so don't do this, but if it's a single bite I'll gently squeeze it like a pimple, and for some reason that tricks my monkey brain into thinking I did something about it.
I had a bad problem with always attracting all the chiggers when we went camping when I was younger. After I had scratched each of them raw, my dad would soak a grease-rag with gasoline and have me wipe them down with it. It burns like hell, but I'll be damned, it stopped the itching and the raw bites would dry up pretty quickly afterward. Old-country remedy from his farming days I guess.
A combination of heat and cold! Use one of those bug pens (or a cotton ball dipped into very hot - about 70°C - water) and press it against the bite for about 10-15 seconds. Repeat if necessary.
Afterwards, use ice, frozen peas, a cool pack, or a cloth saturated with a mixture of vinegar and cold water, and apply it to the bite.
There is a temperature range where the bite is de-itched, but you aren't burned. Good luck finding it. This technique either works really well or it works really well and you end up with a blister.
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