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   MCDuncanLab (mcduncanlab@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 00:48:13 JST MCDuncanLab

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   • Sam Levine

   @SRLevine

   Have you tried a hot spoon on it? I swear it works even days after the bite. Heat a metal spoon in hot water (coffee/tea temp) then pat the bite with it. You want to get it as hot as possible without burning yourself. For me, the swelling and itching will go down in just a couple of minutes. Which is consistent with the literature on heat treating mosquito bites.

   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309056/

   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257884/

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     Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 00:48:14 JST Sam Levine

     Apparently there are two types of mosquitoes in socal right now. The type that bit me a few weeks ago where the bites itch but are tolerable. And the one that bit me Sunday & Monday. Where the bites seem like nothing for the first 24 h and then get so bad clothing irritates them. The one on my upper arm is right below where my t-shirt sleeve ends and the hem made it into a giant welt yesterday. And I have three more of this type that started itching last night/this morning. And the itching is really bad.

     And all I want to do is scratch even though I know it won't help and will make things worse in the long run.

     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat repeated this.