Do you have any cure for sandflies?
By bigfatboy
@bigfatboy (54)
Singapore
October 24, 2008 5:26am CST
I went for an outing trip and came back with a few bites, which my friends told me that it was sandflies. I find them very itchy and irritating. They also produce a similar effect to mosquito bites.
There is also a myth about that insect repellent causes sand flies. To what extent is this true?
I would also like to ask how do I prevent getting bitten from them again and how to reduce the itch from them at the moment.
1 response
@hildas (3031)
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24 Oct 08
Take vitamin B6. They hate the smell of it and will not bite you. I went to Turkey and my mum had told me and the children to take them a few days before we set off. We never got one mosquito bite. They make you sweat the smell of vitamin B6 but it is worth it. Check them out. I can only say the itch is awful with a bite, try calimine lotion and I do not think repellents attract flies. I have never heard this. No I just checked it out there, the repellent does not stop them swarming around you, just from biting you. Things that attract them are soaps, hairproducts and scent.
