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- dwise21
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Hello everyone...I have used the personal care store here and love everything...but I cant find any bug spray..like for mosquitos...I would like something for my kids..I can handle the bugs..I have tried a few things but I am so sensitive to chemicals that its unbelievable....please any ideas..organic and has fragrance free..even anything homeade as long as it works..
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Denise
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Denise
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- bolam56
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Hi Dwise,
Here's something you might try...
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Some studies suggest that taking thiamine (vitamin B1) 25mg to 50 mg three times per day is effective in reducing mosquito bites. This safe vitamin apparently produces a skin odor that is not detectable by humans, but is disagreeable to pregnant mosquitoes (Pediatric Clinics of North America, 16:191, 1969). It seems to be especially effective for those people with large allergic reactions. Thiamine takes about 2 weeks before the odor fully saturates the skin.
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I'd try thiamine \"hydrochloride\" (HCL) rather than thiamine \"mononitrate\"... It's harder to find, but the HCL form is better absorbed.
I'm taking thiamine HCL for my MCS. I developed a thiamine deficiency from drinking too much tea during the day, and a beer habit I used to have when I came down with MCS. It seems the polyphenols in tea prevent absorption of thiamine in the gut, and alcohol consumption both burns thiamine reserves, and also prevents absorption.
In lab tests, the first physical sign of thiamine deficiency is a breakdown of the blood brain barrier!
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\"In rodent TD (Thiamine deficiency), the earliest region-specific pathological change is breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB).
\"Within 2-3 weeks of decreased intake and thiamine depletion, areas of the brain with the highest thiamine content and turnover will demonstrate cellular impairment and injury. The main consequence of these metabolic changes is the loss of osmotic gradients across cell membranes. The earliest biochemical change is the decrease in a-ketoglutarate-dehydrogenase activity in astrocytes. Additional findings include increased astrocyte lactate and edema, increased extracellular glutamate concentrations, increased nitric oxide from endothelial cell dysfunction, DNA fragmentation in neurons, free radical production and increase in cytokines, and breakdown of the blood brain barrier\".
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Only a couple milligrams of thiamine can be absorbed at a time, so take several small doses per day rather than one big one.
Good luck!
Here's something you might try...
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Some studies suggest that taking thiamine (vitamin B1) 25mg to 50 mg three times per day is effective in reducing mosquito bites. This safe vitamin apparently produces a skin odor that is not detectable by humans, but is disagreeable to pregnant mosquitoes (Pediatric Clinics of North America, 16:191, 1969). It seems to be especially effective for those people with large allergic reactions. Thiamine takes about 2 weeks before the odor fully saturates the skin.
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I'd try thiamine \"hydrochloride\" (HCL) rather than thiamine \"mononitrate\"... It's harder to find, but the HCL form is better absorbed.
I'm taking thiamine HCL for my MCS. I developed a thiamine deficiency from drinking too much tea during the day, and a beer habit I used to have when I came down with MCS. It seems the polyphenols in tea prevent absorption of thiamine in the gut, and alcohol consumption both burns thiamine reserves, and also prevents absorption.
In lab tests, the first physical sign of thiamine deficiency is a breakdown of the blood brain barrier!
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\"In rodent TD (Thiamine deficiency), the earliest region-specific pathological change is breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB).
\"Within 2-3 weeks of decreased intake and thiamine depletion, areas of the brain with the highest thiamine content and turnover will demonstrate cellular impairment and injury. The main consequence of these metabolic changes is the loss of osmotic gradients across cell membranes. The earliest biochemical change is the decrease in a-ketoglutarate-dehydrogenase activity in astrocytes. Additional findings include increased astrocyte lactate and edema, increased extracellular glutamate concentrations, increased nitric oxide from endothelial cell dysfunction, DNA fragmentation in neurons, free radical production and increase in cytokines, and breakdown of the blood brain barrier\".
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Only a couple milligrams of thiamine can be absorbed at a time, so take several small doses per day rather than one big one.
Good luck!
