Nearly everyone is sensitive to mosquito bites.
But for those with severe allergies, symptoms can be more than just annoying: they can be downright serious. Most bites occur at either
dusk or dawn, when mosquitoes are most active. While male mosquitoes are harmless — feeding only on nectar and water — the females of the species are out for blood.
A female mosquito locks onto her victim using a combination of scent, exhaled carbondioxide, and chemicals in the person's sweat.
When she finds a suitable meal, she lands on an area of exposed skin and inserts her proboscis to draw the victim's blood.
The common symptoms
— a telltale red bump and
itching
— aren’t caused by the bite itself, but
by a reaction of the body's immune system to proteins in the mosquito's saliva.
Stay tuned to Learn more about mosquito bite allergies, and whether an encounter with mosquitoes might
be potentially harmful.
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