Damn horsefly bite!

When we went to Skye, all the midges in Scotland were waiting for me at Inverness. I came home looking as if I had chicken pox. Even DH's Germolene didn't help.

I came home looking as if I had chicken pox.
I agree, it looks horrible, especially if you're fair skinned the bites show up even more. I don't dare try rubbing concealer onto them.

If I knew the secret I would tell you: the midges, although they annoy me by getting into my eyes, my ears, my hair, my nose, my mouth, don't bite me. They do say that if you eat a lot of Marmite, it puts the insects off, but I don't like Marmite; I prefer the Aussie equivalent, Vegemite, though get through barely two small jars in a year. I once found a tick in an unmentionable place and the GP had a good laugh. The moral of that was, don't crouch down for a pee among head-high bracken.

MTW, I have found a small tube of 1% steroid cream sold for insect bite relief. Why? Anti-histamine cream is adequate for nettle stings, surely also for insect bites.

BTW

annodomini I also find they don't bite me, though they are annoying.

Anthisan first of all, followed by anti-histamine tablets (Clarityn is my choice) and Fucidin cream if the Anthisan doesn't work.
I shall be taking a suitcase full with me when I go overseas as everything in the insect world loves biting me!

Tried Marmight, Vitamin B tablets, garlic capsules, yeast tablets etc etc but none of them work, I still get attacked.

Me too Jalima*! I put it down to being succulent.

How's your bite phoenix? Has the swelling gone down?

Succulent is a much better word than 'juicy'!!

I always keep some chloramphenicol eye ointment in my fridge; mainly [obviously] for eye infections but, because it has some sort of antibiotic in it I apply it to insect bites etc [when I was younger and suffered from the occasional spot I used to use it for that, too]. Not sure that it works, but it doesn't do any harm.