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Ant bites
pumkinlover:
Looking forward to a good day on the allotment this morning and the garden this afternoon.
Having a tidy up on the plot, when I felt the tell tale sharp pain, three bites on my arm. Decided to go home and take a antihistamine because I always react quite badly. One piriton later and I slept all afternoon, woke up for tea and fell asleep again, total wuss when it comes to medication!
Just annoyed that I wasted half a day.
Borlotti:
Poor you, was it red ants, hope you get better soon.
Palustris:
If it helps, the ants use acid (Formic acid to be exact) so rubbing Bicarb of soda on the bites does help a little. It neutralises the acid.
gray1720:
You have my sympathy re the piriton - it has a similar efect on me to drinking on an empty stomach, except I talk less balls before I fall over.
Adrian
Digeroo:
I hate ant bites too, they blow up into a huge itchy lump six inches across. My biggest dread is getting a stray one in the bed. Once ended up with eight bites and only one the one ant.
I also crash out with antihistamine. I had the most expensive one on prescription which was guaranteed not to make you dozy and I slept like a baby. In fact it was worse than the cheapest one.
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