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I hate mosquitoes. I'm one of the people that feel them bite nearly every time, it is painful and the bite they leave behind swells and itches. I've clawed skin off because of how irritating it feels. I'll go outside and they naturally gravitate towards me versus others. Existence is pain.
I am the same, blood brother. ✊
Hell yeah ✊
Vitamin B-2 in high doses is your friend! You literally cannot overdose on the stuff, and you'll start sweating it out. You'll know it is working when your skin smells faintly like the B-12 tablets. At that point all the mosquitos, ticks, fleas, and chiggers can smell is the riboflavin seeping out your pores. Since the biting insects can't smell your blood, they don't bite! They will still crawl on you, so check each other for ticks, fleas, etc. when you come out of tall grass/ wooded areas.
I take a multivitamin with B-12 (folate) that also has riboflavin (B-2) in them. I also eat fortified cereal (has a bunch of folate in it too btw) with fortified soy milk since I've always had anemia and need all the vitamins I can get. My doctor has looked over my levels before and said it was all normal but I can look into it again. Thanks for the tip.
B-2 then not B-12. You want riboflavin. I always mix those two up.
O blood eh?
It's not O. I keep forgetting which one I am but I know it is not O.
I have type -O and have never experienced the itching the previous commenter indicated. I also rarely get bitten, thanks to vitamin B-2