bites that just won't quit

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else have mysterious bug bites received at Baitcon that still haven't gone away?

I haven't been scratching them, and most of them have gone away but a few are still around, and one in particular took a turn for the worse today.

I *was* using hydrocortisone or lanacaine or after bite on it (depending on what was handy) and taking benadryl at night, but last night I didn't take any benadryl, and today I discovered that it had grown even larger than before! Not cool.

I can only assume that this one isn't a mosquito bite, since I've never had a mosquito bite that looked or behaved like this. :( What else was biting this summer at Baitcon?

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

possibly too late, but can't hurt: swab a cotton ball with ammonia, and apply, hold in place a few minutes. cover. wait.

get something like "clearly calagel" (3 in one: pain, antihistimine, antiseptic), and try that. keep an eye on it, keep it covered so you don't itch it. pat it. not better in 2-3 days on the magic gel? tell a doctor.

it might not hurt, depending, to take an oral anti-histimine.

things that were biting there for sure, none of this FUD stuff:

o black flies
o mosquitoes
o horse flies - the large black kind
o yellow/black biting fly - small, slow, stupid, but hurt
o gnats/noseeums - your general purpose hurt and swell dudes...

o "sweat bee" - a biting fly, don't know the proper name, but they can leave quarter sized welts from their anticoagulants. hates them the most. generally the worst of the bunch.

if you were unlucky enough to get visited by a spider, well, that would suck. keep especial close attention to it.

you probably weren't bit by anything else obvious like a bee, hornet, wasp, etc - you'd have noticed.

there are other cuplrits as well, some less obvious, but i'll guess you weren't swimming or ...

and of course, i'm not a doctor jim, but i'm old and gotten bit, and take care of my own self, so, just my thoughts. your doctor isn't your final word either ;) but legally, well, they have the powers ;)

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