Does Marmite prevents insets bites?
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Please be honest, I'll make sure I get in touch in case I eat the thing and still get bites...
Answers:
Yes
One of the trivia questions about mosquito/tick prevention is if high dose vitamin B works as some claim.
Well, scientific studies showed giving B complex helped, insects don't like the smell through your skin. There is an urban legend that feeding people Marmite stops mosquito bites.
* The root of this belief might have been its use during the 1934-5 Malaria Epidemic in Sri Lanka:
“ The two things given to each patient were a bottle of the standard quinine mixture and Marmite rolled into the form of vederala’s pills. The latter was said to have been the idea of the late Dr. Mary Ratnam and to have been more effective than the quinine itself, such was the degree of starvation among the peasantry. The Suriya Mal workers were amazed to see how this little Marmite revived them and put some life back into them.
Probably an old wives tale mate..
I know that vinegar helps sooth the gnat bites... but that's too little too late isn't it!
I wouldn't bother smearing yourself in Marmite. Unless your other half LOVES it!
I dont know. It might do, but even if it does, you'd have to smear it on yourself to stop the bites which just seems silly in comparison to insect spray.
According to my friend, eating garlic works though. But when you are on hols if you use spray you are to dab it on you rather than spray.
Hope this helps
Marmite contains meat stock which is more likely to attract flies and wasps than prevent bites from mozzies
I was told the same as you, and bought a large jar and eat it religiously but got bitten just the same as always. Get yourself a bottle of avon sss and spray that on, its what the marines use.
it should do yukkk
I would think that flies would love it.
What do you do with it, rub it all over?
I'VE LOVE MARMITE and yes it is a fact that it stops bites, when i moved out of my mums i started getting bit,( my mum always brought it, so it was always there) while sitting in the doctors after being bitten and getting anti-histemeans i read the same thing in a magazine, honestly it works, it give of some kinda chemichal out of your pores i have it 3-4 tines a week and have not ben bit in 7 years!!!
Smoking is more effective
if u dont like marmite u can buy vit B1 tabs (think its called benerva or something similar) from pharmacy. the smell that comes thru yr skin repels insects altho u cant smell it. ask pharmacist but think u need to start taking it a week or two before u go.
We are canal boaters and during the "gnagger" season , take a daily garlic capsule and a Vitamin B1 (thiamin) tablet; (both from Holland & Barratt, and seem to suffer far less from bites than friends who don't take these two.
I've not had a single bite this year and husband has only had one - the theory being that the smells coming through your skin deter to mozzies. It works for us.
It doesn't work, trust me.
Besides, I love Marmite, but its either you love it or hate. So if you hate it, why put yourself through the horrors for no reason.
It's be better just to get bitten
marmite does not pervent insect bites try takin some garlic pills as the garlic does prevent bites
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