mosquitos are attracted to me

[onetrumpeter]

Just was reading the pinworm thread - - not sure we're dealing w/ that (though I wonder if I did a while back), but I ran across someone saying how some people are more prone to mosquito bites than others. I've definitely noticed that to be true of myself, my paternal grandmother, and now DD (we're heading into the season, so we'll see if DS joins us w/ the itchy welts ). So I thought it was genetic since others in my family don't get the bites like we do.

Someone, maybe Panserbjorne? mentioned nutritional deficiencies as part of why mosquitos would bite some people more. I actually used to think they were after something "good" in my blood, lol. I'm wondering what my deficiencies might be.

Has anyone been very prone to bug bites then changed your nutrition in a specific way, then noticed less bugs being attracted to you?

[AFWife]

I'll be watching this thread. Mosquitos LOVE me. I can go for a walk with DH and get bitten a dozen times and he'll have zero...

[staceychev]

MIL swears that keeping her vitamin B levels optimal (she tends to be deficient in that vitamin and a mosquito attractor) keeps the mosquitos at bay.

[tanyalynn]

Somewhere I heard it was B1, but I heard it over the winter, so we were mosquito-free then, and they haven't picked up enough yet to try to play with it.

I've seen differences between people in my family, and it seems to go along with who'd I'd say is overall more rundown, nutritionally.

I wonder if homeopathic ledum would help the itchiness go away faster? It helped with DS's fire ant bites a couple years ago, that plus vitamin C and an assortment of vits/mins that help with detoxification. Fire ant bites clearly seem like injected toxins, not sure if mosquito bites would fall into the same category though.