Dengue mosquito bites?

[kaydeegee]

Hey all!

Had dinner last night poolside at a resort in Punta Sam, Mexico. We’ve been here for several days and had only gotten a couple mosquito bites, but as the sun went down last eve we were essentially swarmed. We applied spray, but the bugs were quick and got us each a few times first.

I got a good look at one of the mosquitos I swatted and it definitely looked like an “Aedes aegypti,” aka the kind that carry dengue/malaria/etc.

From a Peaty perpective, is there anything we can do at this point to mitigate potential harm?

TIA

 

[Peatness]

Try B vitamins

In vitro activity of riboflavin against the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum - PubMed

The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum digests hemoglobin and polymerizes the released free heme into hemozoin. This activity occurs in an acidic organelle called the food vacuole and is essential for survival of the parasite in erythrocytes. Since acidic conditions are known to...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Photoinactivation of Aedes aegypti larvae using riboflavin as photosensitizer

More than half of the global population lives in areas where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is present. Efforts have been made to deal with the population…

www.sciencedirect.com

 

[kaydeegee]

Try B vitamins

In vitro activity of riboflavin against the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum - PubMed

The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum digests hemoglobin and polymerizes the released free heme into hemozoin. This activity occurs in an acidic organelle called the food vacuole and is essential for survival of the parasite in erythrocytes. Since acidic conditions are known to...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Photoinactivation of Aedes aegypti larvae using riboflavin as photosensitizer

More than half of the global population lives in areas where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is present. Efforts have been made to deal with the population…

www.sciencedirect.com

Nice! Thank you 🙏