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This article was medically reviewed by Shonda Hawkins, M. The mosquitoes are out and ready to chow down. When a mosquito lands on your skin, it will feed on your blood—but once it leaves, the proteins in its saliva stay behind. Your immune system sees this is a threat and pumps out histamine the same response it has to allergens to attack these proteins. The result? Those unbearably itchy, red welts you remember scratching at as a kid. Luckily, there are ways to get rid of a mosquito bite quickly, and the itching should go away within two to three days. Mosquitoes can carry all sorts of intense diseases, like the West Nile or Zika viruses, or even chikungunya and malaria which are risks if you travel to certain countries.
Begone, bugs! If only getting rid of mosquitoes were that easy. Although there are many anecdotes about things you can eat to repel mosquitoes, there’s no concrete, clinical evidence that any of them work. That doesn’t mean you can’t eat foods like garlic or onions in hopes of keeping the mosquitoes from biting. As long as you don’t have food allergies or sensitivities and are consuming those foods in reasonable quantities, go for it. Just be warned that such pungent foods may affect your friendships as much as, or more than, any insects in your vicinity.