Are Those Musquito Repellent Machines Toxic (permethrin)?

[freal]

I couldnt find anybody on the internet talking about this. You have this musquito repellent machines that you plug in and the "burn" the liquid with permethrin and the permethrin goes into the air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin

Harmfull or harmless.

 

[LucyL]

Re: Are those musquito repellent machines toxic (permethrin)

Permethrin is extremely toxic to cats. So obviously if you have a cat, you might want to avoid that. Taken further, while cats certainly aren't humans, I view them as the canaries in the coal mine, anything that does them in easily I would pursue with caution unless abundantly proven otherwise.

 

[CellularIconoclast]

Re: Are those musquito repellent machines toxic (permethrin)

Slightly unrelated, but topical progest-e seems to speed up recovery of mosquito bites. I'm not sure if it's just the E or the progesterone.

 

[fyo]

Re: Are those musquito repellent machines toxic (permethrin)

There are some simple machines that use CO2 to attract and then trap mosquitos, fyi. Google/youtube 'CO2 mosquito machine' or something 'CO2 mosquito magnet', etc.

 

[Dan W]

Re: Are those musquito repellent machines toxic (permethrin)

I thought this was interesting, just using a fan as a mosquito-repellent:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/scien ... rrent.html

 

[4peatssake]

Re: Are those musquito repellent machines toxic (permethrin)

I thought this was interesting, just using a fan as a mosquito-repellent:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/scien ... rrent.html

Fan-tastic!