It was announced on yesterday morning's news programme that there would be an item about mosquitoes at 8.50am. Accordingly I set my video recorder and got round to watching it this evening. Unfortunately the tape began in the middle of the interview but the interviewee essentially said that if you are attractive to mosquitoes use repellant :-) It is something in your perspiration which is attractive to them and so if you have a lot of the particular chemical in your perspiration altering your diet won't help. I kept the tape on till the end and an email message was read out. It came from a man who had suffered froma vitamin B12 deficiency (pernicious anaemia, I think) and didn't get bitten. When he started receiving injections for it he became attractive to mossies and got bitten.
I know this is a long time after our original discussion but I thought those concerned would be interested. it did confirm my experience - only repellant works to prevent bites. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
