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Anyone else getting bitten by insects?

Lotus

It's unusual for me to get insect bites in UK, I only used to get them when I went abroad on holiday. It's probably due to such a long hot dry spell. It feels like I'm living in Spain or the Canary islands, rather than the south of England!

I've had to buy bite cream and I've ordered a plug in mosquito killer - hope it works!

Parents

  • I had an off scale reaction to being bitten by Greek mosquitoes. They had managed to bite me three times on my left ankle. My ankle and the top of my foot swelled up hugely and the skin turned the colour of raw liver. Having returned home, I was unable to walk for 3 days and was on the point of going to A&E when the swelling started to subside. It must have wrecked my lymph system below the knee. Years later, I developed varicose veins on my left lower leg, but my right leg remains unaffected. I liked Greece, but would never go there again. I get bad reactions to Spanish, Portuguese and Italian mosquitoes, but nothing on the same scale as the Greek ones managed to induce.

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  • I had an off scale reaction to being bitten by Greek mosquitoes. They had managed to bite me three times on my left ankle. My ankle and the top of my foot swelled up hugely and the skin turned the colour of raw liver. Having returned home, I was unable to walk for 3 days and was on the point of going to A&E when the swelling started to subside. It must have wrecked my lymph system below the knee. Years later, I developed varicose veins on my left lower leg, but my right leg remains unaffected. I liked Greece, but would never go there again. I get bad reactions to Spanish, Portuguese and Italian mosquitoes, but nothing on the same scale as the Greek ones managed to induce.

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