What's biting in ED?

[first mate]

If you get a bite that is infected, easy to do if you don't normally get bitten and so merrily scratch away, you would need to visit the doctor for antibiotics. This may be a more sensible approach than letting the infection settle in to what could become a very much more costly and time-consuming emergency issue.

[bonniebird]

I didn't take any time off, but it made me feel rubbish

[Cassius]

stiffleruk22 Wrote:

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> some of you took days off work just from a mosquot

> bite??? yes thay swell up and itch...its a mosquot

> bite! went to the doctors as well!..no wonder my

> GP looks on edge when he has to deal with grown

> adults pi**ing about because thay got a itchy

> bite!...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7915695/Blandford-fly-surge-in-infected-insect-bites-blamed-on-new-superfly.html

Better safe than sorry

[LJ23]

woaah! My boyfriend had to take time off work because his bites developed into huge boils and there was a pretty high risk of infection, plus he could barely walk. This was definitely not just any old itchy bite my friend.

[Crystal Matt]

There are lots of Mosquitos in ED gardens.

So they are a prime suspect.

it's difficult to determine exaclty what bit/stung you, and the reaction is very variable between individuals.

I'd like to encourage people to ensure there are no resevoirs, however small, of water in their properties.

Turn over buckets, unused water butts, pots , anything that can contain water, and is unused.

[PN33]

stiffleruk22 Wrote:

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> some of you took days off work just from a mosquot

> bite??? yes thay swell up and itch...its a mosquot

> bite! went to the doctors as well!..no wonder my

> GP looks on edge when he has to deal with grown

> adults pi**ing about because thay got a itchy

> bite!...

Alright adolf! They werent mosquito bites, and as they'd turned into boils I was told to sit around in case they popped and got infected

[Eddleston]

Good recovery. Sounds a bit like the things that were troubling us all summer.

[toffeese15]

They sound like horsefly bites. They're like mosquito bites, but far worse and the more you scratch the bite the worse the infection becomes. They're particularly painful on knee and elbow joints.

[buddug]

stiffleruk22 Wrote:

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> some of you took days off work just from a mosquot

> bite??? yes thay swell up and itch...its a mosquot

> bite! went to the doctors as well!..no wonder my

> GP looks on edge when he has to deal with grown

> adults pi**ing about because thay got a itchy

> bite!...

Hello? If some bites to people who are allergic are not dealt with they can turn septic, followed by gangrene, followed by amputation. Don't be so blase(my computer doesn't do French accents,sorry). And they can be very debilitating and extremely painful, leading to an actual inability to walk, hence the days off.