Does Eating Garlic Reduce Mosquito Bites?

Garlic is put to the test as a repellent for mosquitoes and ticks.

I previously covered repellents in my videos Is DEET the Best Mosquito Repellent? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-deet-the-best-mosquito-repellent) and Natural Alternatives to DEET Mosquito Repellent (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/natural-alternatives-to-deet-mosquito-repellent).

What about other natural repellents? The next video covers beer, bananas, and B vitamins (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-beer-bananas-and-b-vitamins-mosquito-repellents).<br />
The video I mentioned on toxoplasma is Toxoplasmosis: A Manipulative Foodborne Brain Parasite (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/toxoplasmosis-a-manipulative-foodborne-brain-parasite/).

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47 Risposte a “Does Eating Garlic Reduce Mosquito Bites?”

  1. Sandflies and mosquitoes LOVE me. While working in the middle east I learned to wash with traditional olive oil soap ("Aleppo" soap). After 1 week of use the sandflies and mosquitoes left me alone! My rosacea, dry skin and psoriasis also greatly improved. You can buy it in the USA in most Muslim stores for about $2 a bar. The soap is greenish brown, ugly, not transparent and sometimes has bay laurel as a component. As you use it you can smell olive oil.

  2. I love these lighthearted little “bites” in addition to your usual excellent research. And I’m another garlic-lover who is also has sweet blood. Permethrin, it is!

  3. In Mexico, I lived near a salt water lagoon infested with mosquitos. I was being eaten alive until a neighbor advised me to drink 2 tbs of diluted vinegar daily. It worked. According to my neighbor, the acetic acid in the vinegar alters human blood chemistry such that it's no longer edible to mosquito larvae. I have no idea if any of that is true. I only know the little buggers left me alone.

  4. My personal research reveals: Rub fresh bay leaves on exposed skin before going out for a walk, and no 'sqeeters find me tasty.😊 I'm tickled to find out I eat garlic and maybe that's why ticks seem to love landing on a friend who rarely eats garic, and ticks don't land on me. (Knock wood.🤔) Thanks for your finding interesting research, Dr. Greger.

  5. I have scars on my legs from mosquito bites. I would have to eat a h*ell of a lot of garlic to make me stink. What I did find that helps is the eucalyptus lemon oil spray on my legs. I had only one or two mosquito bites after a week of vacationing in a mosquito region of Mexico. But that eucalyptus oil is nasty, it's oily and sticky and stinks.

  6. Just anecdotal but since I eat a whole food plant based diet (after a around 4 years in) European Mosquitoes don't like me anymore and they loved me. Asian Mosquitoes living in Europe though don't seem to care much

  7. My gf bought this essential oil bottle years ago. I put it on my legs and arms and started to notice that not one single mosquito would touch me. I srill have the bottle and its lasted years because I only use it a few months out of the year during summer.
    Nothing compares to it and you smell good.
    Its called "Pure Romance" Hydrating Body Oil.

    My whole family uses it too and same. Not one single mosquito bite.

  8. If you put vegetable oil over a mosquito bite within minutes after getting it, the mosquito bite will be gone in less than 30 minutes as long as you don't itch it. The longer you wait to put the vegetable oil on the mosquito bite, the longer it will take for it to go away. I've never run into anyone who knows this trick.

  9. Mosquito was eating me alive until I start taking garlic so I don’t know why everybody is so anti-garlic but it’s works for me and I live in Florida and get dead from head to toe but not after doing the garlic

  10. I never got bitten prior to being Vegan even when everyone around me was bitten. Now I’m getting bitten all the time. My sister says she has also started getting bitten by mosquitoes since becoming Vegan. Weird!

  11. Well Strange but maybe effective info at the very end to treat the clothes with the permethrin ( i have never head about ihis disinfectant before …. 🍀💚🐸

  12. In the military some special forces guys I was working with smelled like absolute dog crap. I asked them why they smelled so bad? They explained they did not shower for 7 days prior to heading out into the field. aparantly they seemed to think that stinky human was not appealing to bugs….. idk

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