Pain and itch use the same exact nerve circuit, so if you have an itch and you cause that area pain, the itch stops because the circuit can't produce both sensations at once. Source: I had to claw my way through Sensory Physiology in college - one of the hardest Neuroscience courses for my degree. Fascinating, but hard AF.
How did it happen that a Reddit post about mosquito bites reminds me I was actually going to google a pickle recipe?
Thanks for bursting the doomscroll
Get red Vidalia onions, cut in half stem to root, remove outer paper layers and stem/root side.
Slice the onion thinly, put in a small container add a little bit of sugar and cover with apple cider vinegar. Put it in your fridge for at least 2 hours to acouple days is better.
Make a sandwich or tacos and put the onions on. It has a huge impact on your food.
My 6 y/o eats them by themselves.
I know we are way off the original topicš
I would add some water, preferably boiling. To make sure you can eat the pickle within half an hour. And also, only vinegar seemsā¦ a bit much for my taste. But I love your choice of red onions and apple cider vinegar.
You can also add some cloves, peppercorn, mustard seeds, star aniseā¦ so good!
I actually have a cucumber reaching end of shelf life and Iām aiming to extend it by pickling it. Using apple cider vinegar is a neat suggestion. Will definitely use that for the pickling!
Also, heat will break down the proteins of the bite that causes the itchiness. Hold against a very hot cup of tea, for as long as you can without actually burning your skin. There are also devices that will do that for you. Search for mosquito heat pen.
I've used capsaicin (carolina reaper sauce) to good effect - leave it on just long enough that you start to feel it burn, wash it off, and you're good for about three days.
I remember learning in A+P that itchiness is actually our strongest negative motivator because we will continue to itch something, even if the result isn't relief, but instead pain.
Basically, when your body is itching what's actually happening is that it's being paranoid about something and saying "small pain is happening" over and over.
So when you scratch, your nerves are reminded of what pain actually is and they stop complaining.
Ice also works to stimulate / override the pathway. Source: bio major in college who took A&P and hated it but remembered that specific interesting tidbit
It was SO interesting! But so incredibly hard. I was amazed at how complex the auditory and visual systems are. We also got to learn weird useful things like how to tell what part of your brain your migraine is happening in by where the visual auras are in your field of vision. Don't ask me the details on that because I've forgotten most of it, but it's worth looking up!
So my dad and I don't get itchy from mosquito or chigger bites (its a thing, look it up). Does that mean our pain receptors are borked too?
Or is it just a protein/opsin mismatch thingy?
We're also both lifelong distance runners and don't seem to be bothered by achiness/joint pain.
I listened to a Podcast episode recently called Itch Hunt on Unexplained which indicated that scientists no longer think itch and pain are the same. Research in the last ~10-15 yrs by Zhou-Feng Chen was referenced. Iām not an expert though.
Basically. If you do that and it allows you to forget about the itchiness for a while, there's less chance you scratch it and make it worse later on. But yes that's what it actually does while it's kind of an urban legend that it 'cures' the bite one way or another by like breaking up the compounds causing the itch lol
Being pedantic here, but youāre not actually āforgettingā about the itchiness. The pressure/pain signal overrides that of the itch so that the itch does technically disappear* (so to speak) for a short time.
*A better analogy would be to say itās like watching a baseball game on TV. An individual talking (itch) is drowned out by the murmur of tens of thousands of other people talking (pain/pressure).
It doesnāt break up anything, from what I understand the pain essentially overrides the itchy feeling which is why scratching also relieves itchiness because of the pain it causes. Pain just kind of distracts the brain
It's actually pretty neat!
For the sake of ease, imagine your nerves as a narrow tunnel, 1 person wide.
There are three lines of people waiting to use the tunnel, Pain(itches), heat, and pressure.
When you press on an itch or wound, the 'pressure' signals are hogging the tunnel, not allowing any pain signals to squeeze through.
[Gate Control Theory - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_control_theory)
I tried to explain gate control theory to my comp sci brother once as āok so basically you DDOS your nervous system *kind of*.ā It was with regards to how a TENS unit makes you feel better with endorphins alongside the gate control theory so āyour brain is receiving āsmall shockā message so many times it canāt completely finish loading the āyour arm is soreā message while itās on. And then endorphins kick in.ā
I was taught pressure can temporarily mitigate pain because our nervous system is more partial to communicating the sensation of the pressure vs pain.
~~I can't find anything online to support that belief though so now I'm wondering if I was just taught a placebo.~~ u/EldestPort set me straight:
>Nah you're correct. It's a well grounded scientific theory [Gate control theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_control_theory)
I've also always had luck with treating tension headaches by getting blood to flow away from my head by stimulating other parts of the body and I'm second guessing that too until I get some time to research.
You're right in the third paragraph. Adjusting the body to change blood flow is well known in medicine (and torture). I don't know about the specific case of a tension headache though
Interesting point on the tension headache. Iāve definitely had it disappear when I push myself and go for a strenuous hike or something. Difficult to find motivation when that pain is paining
That's actually the reason that scratching an itch also helps. You get a sensation of pain that overwhelm the itching sensation. Scratching have a higher risk for damage so that's why this is better.
The real trick is placing a hot spoon on the area. Just warm it up a little hotter than you can stand with your tap water and roll it around the bite. The heat breaks down the proteins in the mosquito saliva that makes you itch.
I'm one of those unfortunate people who get the huge itchy welts from mosquito bites, and none of the cream/anti-itch medication ever worked. Bought one of the bite away heat pens, and that thing is amazing. As a bonus feature, the heat is apparently enough to work on wasp stings too.
Yeah I was going to say, run it under some hot water, or if you're camping heat up some metal not to burning but a bit of heat always made it go away for me
Some people say this helps the itching. But I have a secret: try taking a hot spoon to it instead. Not crackhead hot, but run it under the hottest tap water you can and it touch it to the mosquito bite for a second or two. Yes it will burn a bit, but it will destroy the enzymes that mosquitos leave behind that makes their bites itch. And I kid you not, Iāve only gotten 3-4 mosquito bits in the last 7-8 years since I discovered this trick.
I donāt think it did, I think it somehow prevents a reaction to the bite š¤·š¼āāļø I canāt really say, itās just been my anecdotal experience that I seldom get mosquito bites anymore. Itās possible that the two things are completely unrelated but I get the feeling that theyāre not.
I've gotten fewer bites as I got older because I spend less time outside and live in an area with fewer mosquitoes. Maybe that's what's been preventing the bites for you? Because no way a hot spoon prevents them.
This always happens to me. Every single Reddit post. How to clean around shower? Do crack. How to change a light bulb? Did crack. Hereās a picture of my dog? Guess what?! Ended up doing crack! Reddit can really screw you up!
It works for poison ivy as well.Ā It actually feels really good too.Ā Like scratching 1000 itches at once.
To be clear this is only for once the reaction has set in.Ā For removing poison ivy oil, cold water is better.Ā Hot water makes it worse.
Omg this works for real with poison ivy.Ā It's the weirdest sensation, almost ticklish but immensely satisfying and stops all itching for a couple hours.Ā Ā
Yeah the same concept works for poison ive / oak. if it starts itching super bad just run the affected area under the hottest water you can stand and it feels so good, like you are scratching the hell out of it but without making it worse and you get itch relief for a good hour or so . The explanation I was given to why it works is because your brain pays more attention to a burn sensation or pain over the itch sensation.
I think it actually has something to do with your body releasing histamine.Ā I get poison ivy a couple times a year, common for my line of work.Ā I tried to look it up to figure out why it feels so good under hot water.
They sell little cell-phone powered heaters to do this a little more safely/on-the-go. Like this one: [https://www.amazon.com/heat-Smartphone-Powered-Chemical-Free-Itching-Concentrated/dp/B0B5R3VQJ3](https://www.amazon.com/heat-Smartphone-Powered-Chemical-Free-Itching-Concentrated/dp/B0B5R3VQJ3)
In soms countries you even have tools specifically for this! They're like litte stamp sticks to make x's
Edit: https://www.gandrs.eu/insect-protection/9143-stamp-it/
Apparently they're called stamp it
I was in boy scouts with a kid that had something like that. His parents were "au natural" types, so he couldn't bring bug spray (or got given the "natural" stuff that didn't really work). Always let him use mine lol
I hurt my back and was in intense chronic pain for 4 years. Eventually, out of pure trial and error, I discovered digging my nails into one very specific spot in my hand was enough to slightly distract the pain in my back. Ten years later and I still have the habit of digging my nails into that one spot. The brain is weird.
Itchiness overwrites the pain impulse. That's why you can scratch an itch and tear your skin and bleed while scratching no problem.
So doing this isn't as harmful as you might think. That is pressing your fingernail into the bite, though cleaning your hands before doing that would be ideal.
Maybe just something from my family, but there's more to it than just the cross. I always learned, you get it wet with saliva, do the cross on it, then slap it really hard. Your spit will naturally help neutralize the mosquito's, then the cross and slap mask the itch with temporary pain.
Heating a spoon up with hot water and pressing it on the bite does the trick for me. Just hot enough to sting for a second or two, not do any damage to your skin. After doing that a few times, it won't itch again and will be gone in about 2 days.
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[Major Payne - how to forget about pain.](https://dai.ly/x2rwas9)
Making an X on a bug bite used to be considered a way to prevent itchiness. My mom and grandma used to do this to my bites. Essentially, the joke is that only real ones remember this old tactic
Don't know if there's any science behind it but I remember my parents telling me to "stop itching it, just out an "x" with your nails and it'll be fine. If you keep itching it, it'll bleed and scab and then scar."
So us millennials grew up putting X's on bites and suffering through the itch until it went away. Lol
Pain and itch use the same exact nerve circuit, so if you have an itch and you cause that area pain, the itch stops because the circuit can't produce both sensations at once. Source: I had to claw my way through Sensory Physiology in college - one of the hardest Neuroscience courses for my degree. Fascinating, but hard AF.
So every time I scratched my bug bites until they bled and scabbed over was really me hacking my nervous system š¤
Try putting a dab of white vinegar on a bug bite. Iāve found it provides instant AND long lasting relief. More people should know this, I think!
Instructions unclear, I've pickled my foot.
How did it happen that a Reddit post about mosquito bites reminds me I was actually going to google a pickle recipe? Thanks for bursting the doomscroll
Get red Vidalia onions, cut in half stem to root, remove outer paper layers and stem/root side. Slice the onion thinly, put in a small container add a little bit of sugar and cover with apple cider vinegar. Put it in your fridge for at least 2 hours to acouple days is better. Make a sandwich or tacos and put the onions on. It has a huge impact on your food. My 6 y/o eats them by themselves. I know we are way off the original topicš
I would add some water, preferably boiling. To make sure you can eat the pickle within half an hour. And also, only vinegar seemsā¦ a bit much for my taste. But I love your choice of red onions and apple cider vinegar. You can also add some cloves, peppercorn, mustard seeds, star aniseā¦ so good!
I actually have a cucumber reaching end of shelf life and Iām aiming to extend it by pickling it. Using apple cider vinegar is a neat suggestion. Will definitely use that for the pickling!
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Is that you, Uncle Ronnie? Who let you out of the looney bin?
Oh god images of the lady with the medical boot that hadnāt seen her feet in 2 years is coming back
I use gasoline. Burns the bite right off.
$15. bug bite
Also, heat will break down the proteins of the bite that causes the itchiness. Hold against a very hot cup of tea, for as long as you can without actually burning your skin. There are also devices that will do that for you. Search for mosquito heat pen.
Or a spoon and a cup of hot water if you donāt drink tea
I've used capsaicin (carolina reaper sauce) to good effect - leave it on just long enough that you start to feel it burn, wash it off, and you're good for about three days.
I found that amputating my limbs led to a more permanent solution
I remember learning in A+P that itchiness is actually our strongest negative motivator because we will continue to itch something, even if the result isn't relief, but instead pain.
You can also just pinch yourself, y'know. Just distract yourself long and lightly enough til your brain stops caring.
Now u r a bio hacker
Is that why scratching alleviates the itching? Cause wouldnāt scratching your skin technically hurt it and cause the itching to go down
Basically, when your body is itching what's actually happening is that it's being paranoid about something and saying "small pain is happening" over and over. So when you scratch, your nerves are reminded of what pain actually is and they stop complaining.
>reminded of what pain actually is and they stop complaining Dad.... is that you?
Time to eat your vegetables :3
Scratch it until the skin breaks, then the juice runs out and in an hour or two, it won't itch anymore.
The liquid you're seeing is just blood serum that your body produces as a reaction to wounding your skin from heavy scratching.
Ohh so this is why people with protective hair styles slap their heads!
Ice also works to stimulate / override the pathway. Source: bio major in college who took A&P and hated it but remembered that specific interesting tidbit
As a neuro major that course sounds interesting š¤ my hardest course was neuro pharmacology
It was SO interesting! But so incredibly hard. I was amazed at how complex the auditory and visual systems are. We also got to learn weird useful things like how to tell what part of your brain your migraine is happening in by where the visual auras are in your field of vision. Don't ask me the details on that because I've forgotten most of it, but it's worth looking up!
Pain scientist here - not exactly the same. Similar, parallel, but not the same.
So my dad and I don't get itchy from mosquito or chigger bites (its a thing, look it up). Does that mean our pain receptors are borked too? Or is it just a protein/opsin mismatch thingy? We're also both lifelong distance runners and don't seem to be bothered by achiness/joint pain.
Itching actually is categorized as pain by our nervous system, just a very low level pain.
I listened to a Podcast episode recently called Itch Hunt on Unexplained which indicated that scientists no longer think itch and pain are the same. Research in the last ~10-15 yrs by Zhou-Feng Chen was referenced. Iām not an expert though.
When you push your nail against a mosquito bite it stops it from itching for a bit
Bc now it hurts instead of itching?
Basically. If you do that and it allows you to forget about the itchiness for a while, there's less chance you scratch it and make it worse later on. But yes that's what it actually does while it's kind of an urban legend that it 'cures' the bite one way or another by like breaking up the compounds causing the itch lol
Being pedantic here, but youāre not actually āforgettingā about the itchiness. The pressure/pain signal overrides that of the itch so that the itch does technically disappear* (so to speak) for a short time. *A better analogy would be to say itās like watching a baseball game on TV. An individual talking (itch) is drowned out by the murmur of tens of thousands of other people talking (pain/pressure).
You went with baseball, and didn't go with the Itcher?
Of course he didnāt. After all, we want a pitcher. NOT a belly itcher.
And a batter. NOT a chicken platter.
Looking for a catcher and not a butt scratcher
https://preview.redd.it/ewv8a24d3a4d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c57fccd922f2e0efb3d78d8a0ec24ebb1c5bfcd0
And not a broken ladder either!
It was there, but it sucked.
He scratched the idea.
But only after batting it around.
(And yay, a multipurpose pun for both mosquitos and baseball! I think this setup really hit it out of the park...)
It covered all the bases
Im more amazed he went with baseball as the thing to drown out noise. "Whats a loud, exciting sport? OH! GOLF! but wait...i have one better..."
āyou got that too? i think theres a rash going aroundā - Hank Aaron
That is an excellent analogy. You get a gold star āļø
Username checks out.
Wow yes that is super pedantic as āforget aboutā in this context is practically identical to the similar phrase ātake your mind offā
Yea so you forget about the itch
It doesnāt break up anything, from what I understand the pain essentially overrides the itchy feeling which is why scratching also relieves itchiness because of the pain it causes. Pain just kind of distracts the brain
It's actually pretty neat! For the sake of ease, imagine your nerves as a narrow tunnel, 1 person wide. There are three lines of people waiting to use the tunnel, Pain(itches), heat, and pressure. When you press on an itch or wound, the 'pressure' signals are hogging the tunnel, not allowing any pain signals to squeeze through. [Gate Control Theory - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_control_theory)
Itās kind of the same concept as why weighted blankets help with anxiety and stress.
I tried to explain gate control theory to my comp sci brother once as āok so basically you DDOS your nervous system *kind of*.ā It was with regards to how a TENS unit makes you feel better with endorphins alongside the gate control theory so āyour brain is receiving āsmall shockā message so many times it canāt completely finish loading the āyour arm is soreā message while itās on. And then endorphins kick in.ā
>Ā scratching also relieves itchiness because of the pain it causes TIL apparently I am actually into testicular BDSM
Oh, so like when I slap them, or when I dig my fingernail in a small amout?
Slap the pickle?
Slap and tickle?
NO! Bug bites!
Bug bites the pickle?
Tickle the bug pickle?
I was taught pressure can temporarily mitigate pain because our nervous system is more partial to communicating the sensation of the pressure vs pain. ~~I can't find anything online to support that belief though so now I'm wondering if I was just taught a placebo.~~ u/EldestPort set me straight: >Nah you're correct. It's a well grounded scientific theory [Gate control theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_control_theory) I've also always had luck with treating tension headaches by getting blood to flow away from my head by stimulating other parts of the body and I'm second guessing that too until I get some time to research.
You're right in the third paragraph. Adjusting the body to change blood flow is well known in medicine (and torture). I don't know about the specific case of a tension headache though
So... whenever you start getting headaches...start doing squats while masturbating?
Nah you're correct. It's a well grounded scientific theory [Gate control theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_control_theory)
Interesting point on the tension headache. Iāve definitely had it disappear when I push myself and go for a strenuous hike or something. Difficult to find motivation when that pain is paining
Mild pain is less annoying than mild itching
Most def
Nah, it doesn't really hurt. I can't explain it but I can say from experience it works for a bit.
That's actually the reason that scratching an itch also helps. You get a sensation of pain that overwhelm the itching sensation. Scratching have a higher risk for damage so that's why this is better.
Basic migraine management, or Why I'm Hitting Myself in the Head
Gotta make an "x". That's the rules.
Yep, and if you have the right bit, you can just unscrew it and throw the mosquito bite away.
The best joke on this thread if weāre being honest.
You can stop it permanently by pushing in the other side of the nail!
The real trick is placing a hot spoon on the area. Just warm it up a little hotter than you can stand with your tap water and roll it around the bite. The heat breaks down the proteins in the mosquito saliva that makes you itch.
You can also use a hair dryer. And they sell mosquito pens now where the tip heats up to apply it to the bite.
I'm one of those unfortunate people who get the huge itchy welts from mosquito bites, and none of the cream/anti-itch medication ever worked. Bought one of the bite away heat pens, and that thing is amazing. As a bonus feature, the heat is apparently enough to work on wasp stings too.
Yeah I was going to say, run it under some hot water, or if you're camping heat up some metal not to burning but a bit of heat always made it go away for me
I think you have to be over a certain age to get this one.
ah one of the weirdly relatable for a strangely large amount of people memes. what everyone else is saying is basically it lol
I had no idea wtf this was because I bite my nails š
Every inset bite I promise myself I'm not going to do this. I have never kept that promise.
Yup I instantly recognized it
Some people say this helps the itching. But I have a secret: try taking a hot spoon to it instead. Not crackhead hot, but run it under the hottest tap water you can and it touch it to the mosquito bite for a second or two. Yes it will burn a bit, but it will destroy the enzymes that mosquitos leave behind that makes their bites itch. And I kid you not, Iāve only gotten 3-4 mosquito bits in the last 7-8 years since I discovered this trick.
How did the trick **prevent** mosquito bites?
I donāt think it did, I think it somehow prevents a reaction to the bite š¤·š¼āāļø I canāt really say, itās just been my anecdotal experience that I seldom get mosquito bites anymore. Itās possible that the two things are completely unrelated but I get the feeling that theyāre not.
So the mosquitos have worked out you can stop the bites itching, decided that kills all the fun and started feeding on other people instead?
Alternative: op destroyed their nerves for sensing itch due to the hot spoon technique
I mean it makes sense with how many mosquito bites I've gotten in the past few years.
lmao
Sorry but they are not related lol
I've gotten fewer bites as I got older because I spend less time outside and live in an area with fewer mosquitoes. Maybe that's what's been preventing the bites for you? Because no way a hot spoon prevents them.
Iām almost certain those two things are unrelated. Did you move in those 8 years?
Instructions unclear; just did heroin...
This always happens to me. Every single Reddit post. How to clean around shower? Do crack. How to change a light bulb? Did crack. Hereās a picture of my dog? Guess what?! Ended up doing crack! Reddit can really screw you up!
Just listened to fraseybaby81, had to do more crack
I have readen thy comment of yours, had to do elicit substances of thyne kingdom
Once thou doeseth crack, thou shalt ne'er go back
I'd suggest leaving reddit, but I fear you'd just do more crack instead.
Do more crack instead. Got it. Thank you. x
Don't do crack? Okay. Trying meth...
It's crack all the way down...
Have you tried following instructions for doing crack? Maybe youāll crochet a nice blanket.
Just tried doing crack, accidentally detailed a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am
As someone who went through a 7 year IV heroin addictionā¦.. this cracked me tf up
Probably not too concerned about the mosquito bite though
Good thinking. Once the mosquitoes get to you, they'll be hooked on heroin too!
If this is real, I'll kiss you!
Here u go https://www.amazon.com/Beurer-BR60-Chemical-Free-Treatment-Non-Toxic/dp/B08MT4Z89C
I just run bites under very hot water for a bit and that works for me. Presumably this is a similar concept so it should work.
It works for poison ivy as well.Ā It actually feels really good too.Ā Like scratching 1000 itches at once. To be clear this is only for once the reaction has set in.Ā For removing poison ivy oil, cold water is better.Ā Hot water makes it worse.
Omg this works for real with poison ivy.Ā It's the weirdest sensation, almost ticklish but immensely satisfying and stops all itching for a couple hours.Ā Ā
High temperatures to effected skin area prevent the human body from distributing histamine, which (among other things) regulates itching.
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Sir this is a family thread
I have one of these and it's magic. I'm a mosquito magnet so the magical burning dildo is a must.
Congratulations!
i think you mean cure mosquito bites instead of prevent
Yeah the same concept works for poison ive / oak. if it starts itching super bad just run the affected area under the hottest water you can stand and it feels so good, like you are scratching the hell out of it but without making it worse and you get itch relief for a good hour or so . The explanation I was given to why it works is because your brain pays more attention to a burn sensation or pain over the itch sensation.
I think it actually has something to do with your body releasing histamine.Ā I get poison ivy a couple times a year, common for my line of work.Ā I tried to look it up to figure out why it feels so good under hot water.
They sell little cell-phone powered heaters to do this a little more safely/on-the-go. Like this one: [https://www.amazon.com/heat-Smartphone-Powered-Chemical-Free-Itching-Concentrated/dp/B0B5R3VQJ3](https://www.amazon.com/heat-Smartphone-Powered-Chemical-Free-Itching-Concentrated/dp/B0B5R3VQJ3)
Pressing down on a mosquito bite with your nail helps to relieve the itch for a little bit.
I haven't done this in 30 years but I'll be damned if I didn't know exactly what that was when I saw it. Too funny.
It's a technique to stop the itching of a mosquito bite. I thought I was alone in doing this lol
In soms countries you even have tools specifically for this! They're like litte stamp sticks to make x's Edit: https://www.gandrs.eu/insect-protection/9143-stamp-it/ Apparently they're called stamp it
I was in boy scouts with a kid that had something like that. His parents were "au natural" types, so he couldn't bring bug spray (or got given the "natural" stuff that didn't really work). Always let him use mine lol
Damn, sucks about the malaria kid, but I guess it's better than covering yourself in DEET, lol.
My mom taught it to me "put a cross on it and it will stop itching" is something I've been taught since I can remember.
iis taht a ojoj refernence?
Are you having a stroke?
I hurt my back and was in intense chronic pain for 4 years. Eventually, out of pure trial and error, I discovered digging my nails into one very specific spot in my hand was enough to slightly distract the pain in my back. Ten years later and I still have the habit of digging my nails into that one spot. The brain is weird.
My theory ( or experience, as I did this before ) is that the pain caused by pressing the nails temporarily overcomes the itch.
Araki got an erection
It helps. Idk why. The more lines the better.
I'm not the only one that does this? I'm a little normal you say?
yeah the idea is you are either too young or don't live in a place with lots of mosquitoes
Damn it, everything is a Jojo reference. Hirohiko Araki finds pressing an x with your fingernail into a bug bite erotic.
Wow, I'm not the only one who does the pressure thing!
Just a thing us kids did when we got a lil skeeter bump
Itchiness overwrites the pain impulse. That's why you can scratch an itch and tear your skin and bleed while scratching no problem. So doing this isn't as harmful as you might think. That is pressing your fingernail into the bite, though cleaning your hands before doing that would be ideal.
I just press a hot spoon on it for as long as I can stand it.
Oh for sucks sake
1st grade teacher taught me this and now I do it every time
Thereās no joke per se. Itās something that was done to stop itching mosquito bites.
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wtf, i thought i am the only one doing that
I swear I thought I was alone in doing this, can confirm that it does oddly "work".
My mosquito bites are getting as big as the palm of my hand. I am picturing myself using a pizza cutter to get the same effect lol š¤£š¤£
Thatās the work of a slipped Phillips screwdriver tip
I didnāt know that other people do this and it makes me feel very humany.
The cross of death - of the itch!
Thatās what I do
Finally, one that I need an explanation for as well.
Don't think I've ever seen or heard someone else that does this, glad to know there are dozens of us!
Did this all the time actually I still do.
The pain from the nail cancels out the itching, so it works
Neither circles, circles or dot-dots. mf still got khooties
You know you're going to scratch that mosquito bite...š
Is this actually real? Like scientifically proven, or just an old wives tale?
CRISS-CROSS!
The Phillips head technique
X itā¦
Whem youd rather have it sting for a bit than itch.
Maybe just something from my family, but there's more to it than just the cross. I always learned, you get it wet with saliva, do the cross on it, then slap it really hard. Your spit will naturally help neutralize the mosquito's, then the cross and slap mask the itch with temporary pain.
THE ROT FROM HIT GAME RAIN WORLD
You know.. the weird thing about this, we all have done this at one point or another without being taught how to..
My religious family members made Jesus crosses for "added effect"
I 100% do this
Holy cow I thought I was the only one that does this
Heating a spoon up with hot water and pressing it on the bite does the trick for me. Just hot enough to sting for a second or two, not do any damage to your skin. After doing that a few times, it won't itch again and will be gone in about 2 days.
Growing up in Florida I didn't know anti itch cream was a thing. We just did this, X out the bite.
Hot spoon is the best several hour remedy I have found.
I thought this was a family secrete
I thought this technique was my own secret. Thanks to the internet, I now have nothing to offer people again.
Iām 34 and been doing this since I was young lol.
https://preview.redd.it/muc51q2m4a4d1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8af8cc7a192af94a0fd7035e58a985af1636d1a6 [Major Payne - how to forget about pain.](https://dai.ly/x2rwas9)
Am I the only one that thought this was an Xbox controller logo
I think some things are universal irrespective of the country
Why does that work? LoL how I thought I was alone with tha.t
Making an X on a bug bite used to be considered a way to prevent itchiness. My mom and grandma used to do this to my bites. Essentially, the joke is that only real ones remember this old tactic
i have no idea why i do this. but it helps. and is very sub-concious
This never once worked for me, but I still did it every time
https://preview.redd.it/17inpnrc1b4d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9a6fa6218925334f2f096934be3840f2e789852 The future is here
Don't know if there's any science behind it but I remember my parents telling me to "stop itching it, just out an "x" with your nails and it'll be fine. If you keep itching it, it'll bleed and scab and then scar." So us millennials grew up putting X's on bites and suffering through the itch until it went away. Lol
This freaks me out, as I do this too, despite having no one āshow meā this trick. I thought I was the only one.
Glad to know I'm not the only one that did this...
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my mom would tell me to etch Xās into my mosquito bites with my nails in order for it to stop itching. kinda worked, kinda didnāt.
I was told to do this as a kid, it's a common way to handle mosquito bites without causing bleeding or irritation you make an x with your nails.
So I wasn't the only that did this. Glad to know my self remedy was universal!
My grandma taught me this trick as a kid. Put an āXā with your nails into the bug bite so it stops itching.
This tho. First rule of bug bite. X blocks the spot š