Ways to protect yourself from mosquito bite
- Use Environmental Protection Agency-registered insect repellents that contain DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus or IR3535.
- Use insect repellent with 20% to 35% of the chemical DEET; more than 35% of the chemical known as diethyltoluamide can irritate skin.
- Make sure you apply it to all exposed skin.
- Apply insect repellent correctly. Apply sunscreen before repellent, not on top of it.
- Apply and let sunscreen dry before using insect repellent. You want the mosquito to land on the repellent, not your sunscreen.
- Minimize exposed skin and wear light-colored long sleeved shirts and pants. Mosquitoes are drawn to dark colors, floral patterns and sweet perfumes.
- Wear clothing treated with permethrin, a chemical used as an insecticide.
- Treat your own clothes, shoes, tents, etc. with a permethrin spray. • Sleep under mosquito nets with windows and doors closed or securely screened if there is no air conditioning.
- Make sure there's no standing water outside your house because mosquito eggs hatch in water.
- Make yourself less appealing to mosquitoes by wearing light clothes, use of deodorant and by avoiding drinking quite so much beer
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