Hi All,
I've been in my new home in Cairns for a bit over a week now and it would appear I'm really allergic to midge bites and our house backs on to a tidal Mangrove swamp....
It factored into my thinking when we bought the place and I grew up with midges on the north coast of nsw with not too much of an issue with the bites but it would appear my years in Melbourne has meant I've lost my tolerance to them - if that's even possible. Without going into all the gory details I react pretty badly and it's not much fun.
I've done some research and tried a lot of different things but nothing seems to be really working. I've been taking high doses of B1 vitamins for the past week and a half, antihistamines which has taken the edge off, sleeping with a citronella candle by my bedside, one of those mortein wall plug in pest things, 80% deet bug repellant, mosquito coils, sleeping with the fan on.... and the list goes on. While some of these have worked a bit, I find I'm still being bitten. All this is happening inside as well as I'm fairly sure they can fit through the fly screen.
Does anyone have any ideas of anything else I can try? It's doing my head in and I'm afraid that I'm going to go into anaphylactic shock if I don't get this sorted...
TIA.
I've been in my new home in Cairns for a bit over a week now and it would appear I'm really allergic to midge bites and our house backs on to a tidal Mangrove swamp....
It factored into my thinking when we bought the place and I grew up with midges on the north coast of nsw with not too much of an issue with the bites but it would appear my years in Melbourne has meant I've lost my tolerance to them - if that's even possible. Without going into all the gory details I react pretty badly and it's not much fun.
I've done some research and tried a lot of different things but nothing seems to be really working. I've been taking high doses of B1 vitamins for the past week and a half, antihistamines which has taken the edge off, sleeping with a citronella candle by my bedside, one of those mortein wall plug in pest things, 80% deet bug repellant, mosquito coils, sleeping with the fan on.... and the list goes on. While some of these have worked a bit, I find I'm still being bitten. All this is happening inside as well as I'm fairly sure they can fit through the fly screen.
Does anyone have any ideas of anything else I can try? It's doing my head in and I'm afraid that I'm going to go into anaphylactic shock if I don't get this sorted...
TIA.