2023-07-22 12:01:00
With the beautiful days, mosquitoes, tigers or not, invite themselves a little too often into our daily lives. All summer long, Midi Libre helps you better understand this “serial biter” to better protect you from it, thanks to the expertise of EID, the Interdepartmental Mosquito Control Agreement on the Mediterranean coast for more than 60 years.
Overall, we can answer yes to this question, even if we have to put it into perspective. Beyond the skin, there are people who attract mosquitoes more than others. And there, many factors come into play: in particular genetics. An article has just come out recently on the preference of mosquitoes for certain blood groups, in particular groups O and A.
According to studies, mosquitoes are attracted to specific smells, including the carbon dioxide we exhale, lactic acids, and bacteria on our skin. Mosquitoes are generally attracted to heat and perspiration. This makes a combination that will more or less attract mosquitoes.
Heat is one of the most important factors in terms of attractiveness. This is why a pregnant woman will attract more mosquitoes; alcohol consumption is also an important factor, it has been demonstrated… In reality, it is quite a cocktail. Since mosquitoes are very attracted to CO2 (carbon dioxide), it is also believed that smokers are bitten more. Then we come back to your smells which will be a factor of attractiveness or, on the contrary, a barrier.
Everybody gets stung
This is why it is fairly regularly said that in the same group, one person will attract more mosquitoes than others. Afterwards, we must also include in this category the people who say that they don’t get bitten. In reality, they are, but they do not react with an itch. They are stung as much as the others but do not realize it. Someone can be stung thirty times and only have a red dot, another can react by making an edema and needing cortisone, it varies greatly from one person to another.
This sensitivity can also vary over time and change suddenly. There is also the notion of biting too much, the one that tilts the individual from minimal inconvenience to significant nuisance. So we can answer that skins attract some mosquitoes more than others, but we must also add that almost everyone gets bitten.
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