Bug Bites

MonkeyMom · **Bug Bites**

What do you use for bug bites? Dd has about 6 or 7 bites and I have no bug bite cream? Any homemade ideas?

Kellyandgirls · 05-27-2008, 10:29 AM

my kids have to take Bendryll for most of theres!! they both had HUGE welts last night from them!! I even had to ask oldest dd if she could breathe ok it was on her neck!!!

I have used Toothpaste on them baking soda and also bough the no itch stuff made for bug buites (its a small tube so it works to pop in the purse for the outings)

good luck on the bites!! I love summer but those bugs are soo Annying!!

67paintbrush · 05-27-2008, 10:34 AM

a paste with baking soda and water or a paste with meat tenderizer and water will work. The meat tenderizer is what my uncle who's a pharmacist always told us to use.

Clarasmom07 · 05-27-2008, 11:15 AM

Is there an insect repellent that you can use? DD will be 11 months next week. I heard Avon's Skin So Soft is safe for kids, but anything else?

Also, how about bee stings? what do you do for kids then?

Cookie2 · 05-27-2008, 11:27 AM

Ammonia, applied topically, is supposed to help. Yes, you can spray them with Windex if the one you have contains ammonia.

I have a really itchy mosquito bite on my leg right now. I ended up having to take a Benedryl to sleep.

weezie · 05-27-2008, 11:45 AM

our kids doctor told us to use apple cider vinegar...put some on a cotton ball and dab it on the bite...it stings for a second or two but it does not itch.

MonkeyMom · 05-27-2008, 02:17 PM

Thanks so much. I did put baking soda on them last night, but it didn't seem to have helped. It could have been because she was itching them in the crib this morning before I got her up. I will try the meat tenderizer. Thanks!

freebiemom · 05-27-2008, 02:28 PM

Evidently a mosquito was in the house this morning and it bit my oldest several times this morning. I gave him Benadryl and will find out when I get home if it helped. Hopefully he wasn't falling asleep in class!

calimari · 05-27-2008, 02:35 PM

I am severely allergic to bug bites and mosquitoes are the bane of my summer. My legs look like they have giant oozing welts all over them. I have found that the itching will subside if I apply ammonia IMMEDIATELY after the bite. As soon as I realize I'm bit. If it's a half hour later, it's too late.