How to Become Immune to Mosquito Bites

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Did you know there IS a way to become immune to mosquito bites? It sounds like a dream come true, but the price of immunity may not be worth it. Hosted by Hank Green.
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Комментарии : 3 тыс.

@Heartwing37 3 года назад

When I go outside, mosquitoes scream, “The Chosen One is now outdoors!”

@billewilde1 3 года назад

Change your diet if you spend a lot of time outdoors.

@billewilde1 3 года назад

@Lureeality Arts 2 strike anywhere matches, before you go out to the field chew the heads off. Ticks, mosquitos, chiggers won't like the way you tastes. Granddad, Dad did it... been doing it for years never had a problem.

@whiteviper1979 2 года назад

I f#cking HATE 😡 MOSQUITOES!!!

@avantesma1 2 года назад

I'm convinced my blood is the mosquito equivalent of Veuve Clicquot.

@nanaforchrist915 2 года назад

@@billewilde1 “Match heads contain sulfur which naturally repels mosquitoes and other insects. But, strike-anywhere matches also contain potassium chlorate and antimony trisulphide, which could be toxic. Safety match heads even contain grounding looked the great spun glass. Do not make a practice of eating match heads to repel mosquitoes.”

@jamesamann9745 4 года назад

A few years back, a friend of mine who has always spent a lot of time outdoors, was diagnosed with cancer. He was treated with chemotherapy. He noticed that during this treatment he could spend long periods of time outdoors and never suffered a single insect bite. He thought it was interesting that all biting insects were able to detect the chemicals in his body and they left him alone. Fortunately he was cured and is happy to be swatting mosquitoes once more.

@skay1992 2 года назад

Isnt it frightening that not even the bugs will go near the chemicals humans produce?

@C4rol5791 2 года назад

@@jsmit9161 I'm not a fluent English speaker but if "jabbed" means vaccinated, i am jabbed and i got like 20 mosquito bites on myself right now, all in one day. I even used a repellent. Chemotherapy uses very powerful agents and its nowhere comparable to vaccines, if you analysed the ingredients of them carefully, you'd see. But it's easier to believe facebook conspiracies for some of you

@eastsidemuu 2 года назад

Samething happened when I put McDonald's nuggets outside for a couple weeks not even the Flys touched them smh

@revinaque1342 2 года назад

I don't think the insects were leaving him alone... His immune system was just too compromised by chemotherapy to produce a reaction to the bites

@ldmcnutt Год назад

As another commenter suggested, during chemotherapy, your immune system is compromised and he wasn’t able to Mount an immune response to any bites he received.

@Hartofafool 4 года назад

anyone else hoping that this video was gonna be about perfectly repelling mosquitos?

@swifteh1780 4 года назад

Yup. Totally disappointed.

@bockjess 4 года назад

Uhh, ya. This was useless unless you live in a Florida swamp

@katieandkevinsears7724 4 года назад

I have traps on my property that take care of the skeeters. It's a mix of sugar, salt, yeast and water. So they make alcohol, the skeeters get drunk and then drown.

@vanniyo8988 4 года назад

Stop eating sweet foods

@lonestarr1490 4 года назад

@@vanniyo8988 Won't do anything. Mosquitos do not know what you've had for breakfast. They locate you via the differences in CO2 saturation around you. The only thing you can actually do is: walk away. Mosquitos have a top speed of around 2 km/h. Every granny walks faster than that.

@JohnFoley1701 4 года назад

The 580 dislikes are from people squishing a mosquito that landed on the dislike button.

@chloe3087 4 года назад

this comment is underrated and amazingly original😂

@JordanPeterson. 3 года назад

@@chloe3087 I agree

@christinajimenez2206 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@aed2318 2 года назад

Underated comedy 😂😂😂

@EmmaHopman Год назад

Aged poorly

@writeordie5452 5 лет назад

My parents' secret recipe was garlic, lots and lots of garlic. My secret recipe is never going outside.

@writeordie5452 5 лет назад

No, wait, that was against ticks. My recipe works for both, though.

@princessbinas 5 лет назад

Hey, at least garlic is good for your blood stream.

@Primalxbeast 5 лет назад

WriteorDie I use tons of garlic, but the mosquitoes here seem to have a taste for spicy food.

@TheRogueWolf 5 лет назад

I tried that against ticks. They bit me instead of the garlic.

@huntedghostsnero7035 5 лет назад

Try beer it attract slugs, it may work for tucks.

@ScrapPalletMan 5 лет назад

EVERY time I get bit by a mosquito, for the next 2 hours I have imaginary Phantom bites all over my body.... hate it!

@pultofcat8615 5 лет назад

Those are the ghosts of all the mosquitoes you’ve killed in your life.

@ScrapPalletMan 5 лет назад

@@pultofcat8615 I am totally itchy all over now LOL.

@Slymarauder 5 лет назад

Ahaha this was the best post for today :D

@erneizhyde2660 5 лет назад

I once lost a whole night's worth of sleep over this.

@udtheaesir 5 лет назад

Wait until you have flea bites. Have fun with the phantom flea bites!

@And3aPet 3 года назад

This is true! For about 17 years my husband and I lived in a very mosquito ridden area. We decided that dosing ourselves with bug repellent every day wasn’t a good idea. So we got bitten - maybe 50-100 bites per day. It didn’t take long to become immune. The only problem is at some point we both got West Nile! West Nile is bad but the upside is, we recovered and are now immune to that too.

@BantuAzania 2 года назад

You're so lucky.

@petedavis7970 2 года назад

Me too! I lived in Mexico about 30 years ago. After 6-8 months of being eaten alive, the welts and itching suddenly stopped. I assumed for a long time that they just stopped biting me, but realized eventually that they were still biting me, but I just wasn't reacting anymore. I think they were biting me less too. But here I am 30 years later and I'm still immune. I feel the initial poke from time to time of a mosquito biting me and I'll tell my wife and daughter so we can go inside or put on repellant. Fortunately never got dengue or west nile. Several of my friends got dengue and it sounded horrible. One of them almost killed himself while he was suffering from it, the pain was so bad. I consider it one of the greatest gifts I've ever received, because I used to really suffer from the bites.

@osncw2846 2 года назад

theres a bunch of misquitos outside and i have to take 4 dogs out in the morning afternoon and evening and they take long to go so i dont put on bug repelent

@GlorifiedGremlin Год назад

You are the chosen ones meant to defend mankind from mosquitoes

@osncw2846 Год назад

@@GlorifiedGremlin yes

@sysghost 4 года назад

I've discovered that being sweaty and stinky keeps the mosquitos away from me most of the times. Although while this work for me, a friend of mine who tried the same tactic had the total opposite effect. He attracted even more while being sweaty and stinky.

@MrDisgruntledGamer1 3 года назад

the CO2 we breath out and the body of heat attached to that breath is what they are attracted to. Maybe he breaths alot more than you making him stick out much more.

@dracoargentum9783 3 года назад

Also what you've been eating will come out in your sweat.

@adriansieja7377 3 года назад

It's your blood.

@barracuda6817 3 года назад

Sweat attracts mosquitoes.

@sasheenmalcolm4931 Год назад

🤣😅😅

@pooyafitness 5 лет назад

My problem isn't the bites. It is the noise of the mosquitos specially at the middle of the night.

@MsSilentH 5 лет назад

Its the worst! And since between me and my partner, I'm the mosquito magnet, I get them all near me.... as well, since moving to Europe, I've realized that I have to deal with NO screens on windows >.>

@eeveefennecfox 4 года назад

Paul Andarzgar the bites are the worst dumbass

@equinae6048 4 года назад

Paul Andarzgar yeah that my big problem to! My mind get triggered already if i hear a mosquito sound

@HotSauceBeatsFan 4 года назад

My problem is I scratch it till it bleeds then keep sctratching the scabs off and it forms a scar and the problem is mockitos love me

@pooyafitness 4 года назад

@@CommunistBot 😂😂😂

@MrEnky007 5 лет назад

The electric racket is more satisfying...

@udtheaesir 5 лет назад

Yeah, if you're not dealing with the evasive ones, those are annoying.

@MrEnky007 5 лет назад

@@udtheaesir When my target is locked, there's little chance of survival. I prefer a one swing execution for a cleaner death.

@faiqcreates 5 лет назад

@@MrEnky007 and then the racket hit the sofa

@allanjbara2382 5 лет назад

MrEnky007 ikr

@gaurav4725 5 лет назад

I like to kill lots of mosquitoes at once because of the crackling sound it makes.

@Patrick_Cooper 3 года назад

At some point in my life, I noticed that when everyone else around me is getting bit, I didn't. I can't remember the last time I was bitten, I spend fair amount of time outdoors. I guess being a mean, bitter old man, has its advantages...

@aaronmullenix5409 3 года назад

I've never been bitten by a mosquito. They land on me and fly away

@chuckinhouston9952 3 года назад

Same here. Garlic and jalapeños - they don’t like this stuff.

@salmaflores6928 3 года назад

@@aaronmullenix5409 same 🤷🏻‍♀️

@adriansieja7377 3 года назад

It's all out your blood type

@personapersonality8187 2 года назад

Donate your blood to researchers and help us please..lol

@UnOrigionalOne 4 года назад

I became immune to the mosquito bites in my home town. Three points: I am still immune today. I am not immune to other varieties of mosquitos. I am immune to this day 20 years later.

@lindanguyen5026 4 года назад

Mosquito: Sees me for .1 seconds The mosquito: hehe ye boi

@Ag3nt0fCha0s 4 года назад

If your profile pic is accurate I agree with the mosquitoes sentiment

@Sora-eo2er 3 года назад

@@Ag3nt0fCha0s simp

@Ag3nt0fCha0s 3 года назад

@@Sora-eo2er yeah ok u got me. Do me a favour tho; was that an ok comment or lecherous, rude and unfunnny? Because looking back I do not know if I crossed the line.

@Sora-eo2er 3 года назад

@@Ag3nt0fCha0s its a joke relax. xD

@Ag3nt0fCha0s 3 года назад

@@Sora-eo2er thx bro :-)

@A_Final_Hit 5 лет назад

Instructions unclear. Arm stuck in an alligator's mouth.

@stefanosgeorgiou8828 5 лет назад

Then how did you comment with one hand Being in aligator's mouth? Haha gottem

@yazz4350 5 лет назад

stefanos georgiou he can type wif one hand yo

@stefanosgeorgiou8828 5 лет назад

@@yazz4350 yea but can he when one hand is in aligator's mouth? Well I might Just ne stupid

@nicolemelgar5247 5 лет назад

@haironscreen2495 5 лет назад

stefanos georgiou r/ woosh

@steveseliger 3 года назад

I worked in the Adirondacks for several summers when I was in my 20’s. We were bitten by mosquitoes constantly all summer long. At first I had huge, severely uncomfortable reactions. Then, suddenly, after two summers of this, I stopped having any reaction at all. I’m now 60, and no matter where I go I am immune. No reaction at all. Several of my friends who worked with me have developed similar life long immunity.

@paul6925 3 года назад

That would explain why after years of playing outside in swampland, I didn’t get itchy welts anymore by the time I was a teen

@anyascelticcreations 3 года назад

Same. Only it was forest and river for me. We used to say that mosquitos were our state bird there. Lol.

@paul6925 3 года назад

@@anyascelticcreations lol we also got black flies for 2 weeks that make it impossible to go outside. I hate it so I moved to the city 😂

@freeeggs3811 3 года назад

@@paul6925 Same thing happened to me now after getting bit by a mosquito it would only swell up for around 1 minute before completely disappearing.

@anyascelticcreations 3 года назад

@@paul6925 Yeah, we had vicious deer flies another place that I lived. They were horrible! And chiggers. Hmm. I've been planning to move back out to the forest again. (In a different state) Maybe I should spend some time there to see what the bugs are like before I buy. Lol. 🤔

@Belboz99 5 лет назад

In the Scouts we had swarms of Mosquitoes at summer camp. Every year I got hundreds of bumps the first couple of days, nearly covered. But then by midweek the bumps subsided. I stopped noticing the mosquios as much, but I was still being bitten. I'd frequently only notice I was being bitten if I saw it, sometimes up to half a dozen on a single arm or leg. But these new bites never swelled. Every year there after, the initial phase grew less and less intense, and lasted shorter. After around 8 years I pretty much stopped having any reaction to them at all. Yesterday I went on a hike with the kids, got over a dozen bites, and not one bump... it's been 20 years since summer camp.

@shieh.4743 5 лет назад

Dan O'Connell This is basically my husband’s story also and he always tells me that I just have been bitten enough. 🙄 As if I missed out while marching through the woods as an army cadet. 😉

@erkdoc5 5 лет назад

Ok, so it isn't just me. I'll get bit a lot, but only one or two bites itch, and even then it's for a very short time.

@Hellefleur 5 лет назад

You attracted all the mosquitos? You must have been everyone's favorite person.

@sophiajune546 5 лет назад

Arent you worried about diseases spread by mosquito bites ?

@Belboz99 5 лет назад

Hellefleur, actually I don't attract them as much as others... I've got type B+ blood, mosquitoes don't like it as much as others.

@Master_Therion 5 лет назад

Well that sucks. And here I was hoping for a treatment that didn't totally bite.

@JamieJosef 5 лет назад

Master Therion was that pun intentional

@Master_Therion 5 лет назад

Jamie Josef 90% of the puns I make are intended. The ratio of which an accidental pun occurred, one pun... in ten did.

@william41017 5 лет назад

@@Master_Therion you were waiting for this question to use this pun, weren't you?

@larrysheklstien1010 5 лет назад

you absolute madman

@sapphirII 5 лет назад

So let's me make sure I understand the information. The secret to become immune to mosquito bites is for the immune system to not do its job?

@TonyaTko 3 года назад

🤔🙄 so basically, 6 months of extreme torture and malaria, only to go to a different area and start all over again

@thatryguy5474 3 года назад

Strongly scented plants help to keep mosquitoes away. Rosemary, lavender, Mint, Basil etc.

@driftingdruid 3 года назад

Cats hate the smells of those too, including Citrus fruits

@kathmandu2285 3 года назад

I have this stuff all over the deck. Multiple plants. It doesn't work.

@thatryguy5474 3 года назад

@@kathmandu2285 it well for me when I lived on the east coast.

@Asdfkalsdf 3 года назад

I have those mosquito (citronella) plants everywhere in my front and backyard and I still get bites every year.

@thatryguy5474 3 года назад

@@Asdfkalsdf You must be tasty. 😋

@electronicsNmore 5 лет назад

I'm a mosquito magnet. LOL

@royale.artist3197 5 лет назад

Me Three....

@marloncrespo9903 5 лет назад

Me Four....

@Bryan-Hensley 5 лет назад

Your breath gives off co2 more than others. Also you skin temperature may be higher than others. DEET isn't a posion either, it doesn't repel mosquitoes and it doesn't mess up their senses. They simply hate it. You stink to them

@electronicsNmore 5 лет назад

@@Bryan-Hensley Has nothing to do with breathing, I performed a test. Stood outside 2 minutes holding my breath and still got bites.

@Bryan-Hensley 5 лет назад

@@electronicsNmore I have studied these little bastards for decades to try to find a way to get rid of them. Yes they use c02 and thermal to find you. If you step outside in an area already plentiful with mosquitoes you will get bit even if you hold your breath. However if you happen to go to a really dry area where they aren't as plentiful, they will find you via c02. They are pretty complicated little bastards

@afiqzx 5 лет назад

Tried this. Got dengue. Noice

@neelav2394 5 лет назад

Why do you have a matrix as your profile picture though?

@Zoniuc 5 лет назад

N337av G#o5h Why do you have a dog as your picture?

@Ronan350z 5 лет назад

@@Zoniuc why do you have a s as a picture?

@LFTRnow 5 лет назад

Why do you have a chicken as yours?

@ag135i 5 лет назад

A picture speaks more than a thousand word's, period.

@jonascoelho 4 года назад

I knew it! In my parents' home there is this very annoying mosquito (Simuliidae) that leaves you with gigantic bumps on your skin (like 5~10cm wide). However, I noticed that after moving here I was no longer being bitten, while everytime there was a visitor they had this very intense reaction if they did not use repelent. So it was not that I was not being bitten, my body just got used to it. Funny thing is: if I leave home for a long period (a year or so) and then come back, it takes 1~2 weeks to go back to "numb" mode. This species in particular seems to be faster to desensitize, probably because the reaction to their toxicins (or whatever it is called) is so intense. That should be worth a paper to publish (anyone else reading this feel free to investigate, I'm not in the biology field)

@HannahIm 3 года назад

Interesting! When I first moved to South Korea from the US 16 years ago, I got horrible quartersized welts from the mosquito bites. My reactions gradually got milder, and in the past few years either I miraculously got no bites or I become totally desensitized.

@Im15cheese 4 года назад

It’s like 4am, and there’s a mosquito in my bedroom. I tried to kill it despite it being almost completely dark. But now it’s somewhere in my bedroom. Now I’m really paranoid, and here I am, doing research on mosquitos...

@sourgrapes2135 4 года назад

I'm allergic to their bites...

@thehonoredone8470 4 года назад

This is me right now

@enderlynxwilloze7935 4 года назад

【 Bøuncy 】 same. I’m scared because I have 100 bites.

@joemama7236 4 года назад

I killed one that bit me alot and there is a ton of blood on me

@yourmom4180 4 года назад

I know that feeling, sometimes I haven't slept at all because of mosquitoes...

@nothing2seehere.goaway 5 лет назад

Grew up in my grannie's house very close to the beach in the Caribbean. Her house had no window screens and the mosquitoes were on attack 24/7. By the time I went to Kindergarten, the bites no longer affected me at all. However, my cousins that lived in the States and came to visit each summer would get covered in bumps and boils. Curiously, I am still immune 35 years later even though I don't live in the Caribbean anymore.

@roku_nine 5 лет назад

is still itchy when they bite?

@nothing2seehere.goaway 5 лет назад

Not at all. Except on certain areas like around the ankles and the achilles tendon. But I suppose it is because the skin itself might be more sensitive in those spots.

@syedsnake9801 5 лет назад

@@nothing2seehere.goaway Damnn you are like a mosqitoe veteran huh.

@SoSickRick 3 года назад

How have I not become immune? I’ve been stung billions and billions of times

@freeeggs3811 3 года назад

I highly doubt that.

@thallescorti5636 2 месяца назад

yeah, me too. Many years getting bitted everyday, and i haven't become immune. For me it is " no see ums " and they bite me thousand times on a regular night.

@steliosliagkos 4 года назад

Me: goes to sleep Moscito in 12 am: wait 1 am: wait 3 am: wait 4 am: now go to his ear

@safir2241 5 лет назад

God I despise mosquitoes.

@Ganara426 5 лет назад

Cant be worse than wasps... Wait I need to rethink that...

@theboosted1369 5 лет назад

Don’t forget the bedbugs

@bravoalley228 5 лет назад

That is another reason to why I like bats

@bravoalley228 5 лет назад

Scientific Machine what? Do you know of the Abrahamaic faiths? Abraham did not exist when the flood happened. Therefore neither did Jesus

@billpetersen298 3 года назад

Mmmmmmm, maybe mosquitoes, are in the image of god?

@Quasardian 5 лет назад

The worst thing outdoors? They are the worst thing indoors! Hunting them takes ages.

@Ganara426 5 лет назад

Hah been there.... been there.......

@disruptivetimes8738 5 лет назад

One little bastard can ruin a whole night and only with luck he turns into a red spot on a white wall. No hunt can be so anoying and yet so satisfying if you get them. Kill them all.

@kme 5 лет назад

My husband hunts them with the vacuum cleaner. Gets most, if not all the little buggers.

@sogerc1 5 лет назад

I was gonna say the vacuum cleaner thing too. Of course only if you have the one with the long flexible tube. Besides being very effective, you won't put blood stains on your wall.

@tuckerkatze8309 3 года назад

It's that high-pitched buzzing in your ear that drove me insane. Not sure if it was that heinous high pitch or the fact that I REALLY did NOT want to get bitten AGAIN!

@Jeuro38 4 года назад

A 1000 bites over a summer is genuinely possible for me, without even trying

@CaptainOnePocket 3 года назад

That's only about 10 bites a day.

@deepwaters7242 3 года назад

Hmmm I learned on scishow that my sweat, Genes and blood type are all contributing to my delicious mosquito ambrosia.

@royale.artist3197 5 лет назад

Mosquitos LOVE me, and I MeAn They LOVE ME!

@arthas640 4 года назад

i read that in Fluttershy's voice from the famous "You're going to love me" Flutterrage meme

@JeantheSecond 4 года назад

Same.

@GrosvnerMcaffrey 3 года назад

@@arthas640 funny because I imagined pleakley's voice

@arthas640 3 года назад

@@GrosvnerMcaffrey now I cant unhear it!

@hotANIMEmanART 5 лет назад

I guess the 117 dislikes are from mosquitoes

@icejax 5 лет назад

Straight Logic

@SnowyZero 5 лет назад

Xileer Torias You’re a mosquito...

@hannah8672 5 лет назад

Rindle OMG U HAVE 117 LIKES WHATT

@_lynnloo9988 5 лет назад

177 like lMAO

@myview9923 5 лет назад

I think mosquitoes like it.. He is promoting hundreds of bites per month..

@irmaadyatnimawardi 4 года назад

when I was in elementary school I had severe allergic reaction to mosquito bites, I'm talking about whole body rash like if I fell into poison ivy bush, nowadays it's just a bit itchy, but yeah, it took decades to come to this point...

@Akira-jd2zr 3 года назад

When a mosquito bites me, it swells up to around the size of a nickel and is super itchy...

@freeeggs3811 3 года назад

Then you need to go outside more, I use to have the same reaction as you but after being out in the woods for a long time, it only swells up for around a minute before disappearing completely.

@richardo7791 5 лет назад

Become immune to mosquito bites! _Ok, I'm listening._

@nziom 5 лет назад

Among all creatures this one that I hope human's can one day erase it.

@nicodemus7774 5 лет назад

n ziom what about parasitic wasps? Their larvae will first eat the insides of their host, ( they take care not to kill it) for example a caterpillar, until they grow up enough so they can bite their way out, after that their actions affected the caterpillar mind so much that the caterpillar will start building cocoons around the larvae, and protect them from predators until the caterpillar dies from starvation.

@koolaid1646 5 лет назад

Nicodemus (눈▽눈)

@johnvarghese382 5 лет назад

And bed bugs

@xxXthekevXxx 5 лет назад

Nicodemus parasitic wasps are actually considered a hugely beneficial insect (good) for farmers. They will kill and eat the worms that infest our crops :D I grow a garden and I actually hope to start planting plants to attract more parasitic wasps.

@xxXthekevXxx 5 лет назад

John Varghese bed bugs, lice, fleas, etc, are absolutely useless ecologically and I hope they all die. Mosquitoes, on the other hand, serve a huge benefit to all the animals that eat them (birds, bats, other insects, etc) and could possibly cause a collapse in the food chain if they disappeared. We don’t know. It’s hard and dangerous to mess with the environment like this, which is why we haven’t killed them yet.

@billywong7775 3 года назад

The last statements deserves my like Here in Malaysia you will likely end up with some nasty severe dengue fever or dengue haemorrhagic fever if you allow yourself to be bitten that often 😝

@heavymeddle28 3 года назад

Yea, same here in Thailand 😊

@Neuralatrophy 3 года назад

I have almost no reaction to mosquito bites... LSS, don't move to northern Ontario unless you're ready for the bites, I've seen more mosquitoes in my house in one night than I've seen in 4 years of living in Calgary and where I am now !!

@ElectricHelloKitty 5 лет назад

Nevet clicked so fast

@SNBoomer4ever 5 лет назад

*Never

@Bee-bup 5 лет назад

Haha who's Nevet

@SilverCanary1 5 лет назад

me toot...

@ElectricHelloKitty 5 лет назад

Ярослав Абрамовиц “nevet” is how someone whos watching a video instead of their keyboard spells “never”

@thingswecarry7564 5 лет назад

I live in Florida and work outside, I passed this event horizon years ago.

@ronaldowens5025 3 года назад

But what about them big white and black stripped bastards.

@wendellwhite5797 3 года назад

When I was young, living in the tropics. It took two weeks and no more skeeter bites. Now, I never have any problem with them anymore. I've worked in the bayous in LA and never had any problems whilst my coworkers were ravaged by them.

@politicalcinnamon8839 3 года назад

I've been taking Turmeric for the last few years, for generalized inflammation issues ... side effect: fewer bites and when they do bite, less itching!

@SnowyZero 5 лет назад

Oh, I just figured out why my immune system overreacts to everything. It must have gotten it from my mother’s personality.

@notmeanttobe6940 5 лет назад

I had quite the histrionic mother myself lol!

@DoctorX17 4 года назад

Until I was nearing my 20s, I seemed to never get mosquito bites when everyone else was covered... I'm wondering now if I was getting bitten but just not having reactions

@mixtlillness9825 3 года назад

This gives me an idea on how to become immune to bullets!

@GrayShark09 3 года назад

Right! Start with the smallest calibers first.

@freeeggs3811 3 года назад

It doesn’t work like this dummy.

@bonnitaclaus2286 4 года назад

When I was living in Florida, I became immune to the local mosquitoes... no reaction. I had a little reaction also to mosquito bites in another area where I spent a lot of time. However, if I went fishing near turtle Beach, it was very different and painful. All other places I had some reaction. I captured mosquitoes and found they did not look the same. Interesting. The worst ones were black with white markings. The one at my house were smaller and more of a gray.

@themanatee9276 3 года назад

Same, I live in North Central FL and am not really bothered by the mosquitoes at all but outside of the range of my local mosquitoes I still get the reaction.

@UYLhealth 2 года назад

I read that there were companies gmo’ing mosquitos and wanting to release them in Florida claiming it would help decrease the population.

@xLKYBx Год назад

The black and white ones are the Asian tiger species. Those are KNARLY!

@proudindian2186 Год назад

I m loved by all mosquitos species. U r unfortunate.

@djssdns 5 лет назад

Oh my god Poor guy I feel like the dude should get a medal that says "Did It For Science!"

@Unyt 5 лет назад

I slapped a mosquito out of existence once

@thesfsguy6248 4 года назад

Wow your hand must be a black hole

@shelbywill8848 4 года назад

@buckets, just take a joke dude..

@unsuspiciouschair4501 4 года назад

Good

@nothingnothing635 4 года назад

I slapped a fly and some mosquitoes out into oblivion once

@DennisMartinezCalifornia 3 года назад

It woke up on a carriage in Skyrim 😂

@anomilumiimulimona2924 3 года назад

Problem is everytime you get bit, 1000's of new mosquitos are produced

@SagaciousEagle 4 года назад

I don't mind feeding the mosquitoes with my blood, but once upon a time a mosquito gave me a present, and it was dengue. Thank you very much.

@turtle4llama 5 лет назад

It's definitely a bad idea to do exposure therapy with bug bites. My husband is an entomologist and we have hand-raised mosquitoes for years. I had to stop working with him because I became so highly sensitized to bites. Neither of us can hand feed anymore because the bites swell to rapidly and don't allow for the bugs to feed properly. Though we may become desensitized in the future, it would likely be temporary before we quickly developed lethal reactions. It's not uncommon for bee specialists to become deathly allergic after years of exposure and its likely to work the same for us. The desensitization period is temporary, is all I'm saying... work with an allergist.

@FoxxElite1 5 лет назад

Bee Venom is not an allergy...

@turtle4llama 5 лет назад

@@FoxxElite1 it can be, like anything else. Bee specialists develop allergies just like most people do to being exposed to foreign bodies.

@celinak5062 5 лет назад

Well, that complicates things

@preciousvicious9025 5 лет назад

@@FoxxElite1 of course it can be. My grandma almost died from a venom that doesnt usually kill a human Cancer got to her tho

@123123boobies 5 лет назад

Why would you raise mosquitos? They all need to die

@checkmyplaylist6879 5 лет назад

But are they still going to do that annoying sound!?

@eyemann5706 5 лет назад

Be deaf. Boom, solved.

@MatthewSmith-sz1yq 5 лет назад

It’s just a really really tiny violin, don’t get mad at them for trying to aspire to greater things.

@Tsukiko.97 5 лет назад

Mosquitos buzz for love. So why don’t you buzz off instead Mr!

@TGNXAR 5 лет назад

Females don't make the noise. It's the males showing off for the females.

@zamundaaa776 5 лет назад

@@TGNXAR only the females hang around in houses to get our blood. After they've mated. So the males are pretty much never even there And it's their flight sound like from any other flee but more annoying

@tomm8025 3 года назад

I've noticed that after years away from mosquitos, then coming back, I had much less reaction to the bites and any reaction I did have went away quicker.

@esteemedmortal5917 3 года назад

*Sees the title* : IM LISTENING “Takes thousands of bites” IM OUT “But immunotherapy is effective!” IM BACK IN

@frostedmantis6414 5 лет назад

Make sure ur immune to mosquito transmitted parasites and diseases too

@RialuCaos 5 лет назад

Because they prefer to express their concurrence through means other than a thumbs-up.

@stillnotwoke 5 лет назад

@Human Cancerbag ... IKR?

@PugLifeJM 5 лет назад

It's 2018 and mosquitoes still exist. We could destroy the planet if we wanted, but not end these little buggers. Humanity disappoints me sometimes.

@Ganara426 5 лет назад

It sounds like you *want* to destroy the planet... Why, its already happening anyway...

@silverdeathgamer2907 5 лет назад

We can genetically engineer them to make them impotent.

@chrisbalfour466 5 лет назад

We can easily destroy all the insects, just not specifically mosquitoes. Broad spectrum insecticides also do bad things like causing cancer, persisting in the environment, and poisoning all the animals. So, people chose to error on the side of caution and not declare war on bugs.

@onesandzeroes 5 лет назад

It's 2018 and while we shouldn't destroy all mosquitos and the ecosystem, it's surprising there's no reliable device or substance on sale that would attract and zap them locally. All those insect lamps are a scam

@kyleellis9177 5 лет назад

They are our only competetion for creature that killed the most humans, we must eradicate them so we are uncontested

@petedavis7970 2 года назад

THANK YOU!!!! I've been waiting for an explanation to this for 30 years... I lived in Mexico a bit over 30 years ago. Before I moved down there, I was the kind of guy who, if there were 100 people hanging out outside and only one of them got a mosquito bite, I was the victim. When I moved to Mexico, man they ate me alive. I was eating garlic cloves every day (my girlfriend did not appreciate me sweating garlic) for long periods. I tried everything. My lower legs were just covered in welts for like 8 months. And then, all of a sudden, it stopped. I thought maybe they stopped biting me. In fact, for years, I just assumed that's what it was. But then I started paying a bit more attention and I noticed they were biting me. I just wasn't reacting to it anymore. I think of it as one of the greatest pleasures of my life, not having had to endure mosquitoes for the past 30 years. The itching could be horrible. Ever had a mosquito bite you through the thickest part of the sole of your foot? You need a serrated knife or a really rough rock, or cement, to scratch deep enough to get any relief. It's horrible. I don't miss it one bit. To answer your question about how long it lasts without maintenance doses? Well I've been going 30 years and I'm sure I've had some maintenance doses, but I don't go looking for them and frankly, I think they actually bite me less than they used to

@curiousfirely 4 года назад

Ah ha ha! As a Field Biologist, I suspected this effect. The first few weeks of field season I react to bites, but then I mostly stop reacting to mosquito bites. So, maintenance dose required annually, but I super appreciate fewer reactions!!

@melissaquinn1463 5 лет назад

I got chomped on this summer and the reaction was more like hives, with huge welts and extreme itching. It took about two weeks to heal, and there are still faint shadows on my skin where the bites were. I’m pretty sure those were mosquito bites. Apparently I am delicious because the spiders and fleas wouldn’t leave me alone either. Their bite marks stayed small, but itched like bejeezus. It’s seriously hard to be a sane human under that kind of provocation. My apologies to my family.

@NickoAle 5 лет назад

As soon as i saw the title i thought, "this is gonna involve me being a mosquito all you can eat buffet, isn't it?" 25sec in to the video... Jupp....

@blackenedmerlin2076 3 года назад

Methinks you have misunderstood our fundamental desires here... by "immune to mosquito bites", we want mosquitos to stop having any interest in us, no reactions because no bites.

@freeeggs3811 3 года назад

@Mei_mcz Год назад

Thanks Hank! I learned more about why my body reacts to mosquitoes and was always curious why I react. I think I’ll pass on your desensitization method. It was interesting to learn more though:). I wish you the best Hank and send support.🍀

@jared8515 5 лет назад

Wait.. there are actual sane human beings breeding *MOSQUITOES?!*

@RenshiErmine 5 лет назад

No. No sane person would do that. Only people who have lost their minds breed them.

@NTDang 5 лет назад

Keep your friends close and your enemy's even closer.

@tinaleeth2707 5 лет назад

The government breeds them. For real

@cocothedrcat9625 5 лет назад

They're bred for study

@VampageRampage 5 лет назад

CocoTheDrCat Study of what, what diseases we can’t create in them and spread?! Wipe me out for good!

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 лет назад

Benadryl is my friend against mosquito bites.

@rockets4kids 5 лет назад

Though mostly because you can't be annoyed by them when you are asleep.

@LMacNeill 5 лет назад

Because you can't scratch when you're in a coma.

@billybob-hv5hl 5 лет назад

I took 4 benadryl and woke up in another decade

@leahhatcher7423 5 лет назад

Benadryl and hydrocortisone don't work for me. Probably goging to have to get a prescirption next summer.

@LivvyBooks 5 лет назад

I wish but benadryl causes me to be horribly dizzy with a sense of vertigo.

@malcolmmcclintick6787 2 года назад

This guy is great! Informative, articulate, and entertaining, all at the same time. And especially interesting to me personally because, having just moved to Florida, I'm being constantly bitten by those little blankety-blank blood suckers.

@gchicklet 4 года назад

I've never really been bothered by mosquito bites. My gramps used to say it was because God didn't make sh*t eating mosquitoes. 😁😁

@victoriawilliams2786 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@parkermcbride8431 3 года назад

Same, was wondering if another immune person was in the comments section

@anyascelticcreations 3 года назад

@@parkermcbride8431 Also immune. I wasn't born immune, though. My grandma was. As far as she knew she was born that way. I had to earn my immunity the hard way. 🦟

@mayube9292 3 года назад

@@parkermcbride8431 I'm not immune in the sense that the bites don't bother me, I'm immune in the sense that I never get bit in the first place!

@jswhosoever4533 3 года назад

Grampas are great

@thestateofalaska 5 лет назад

Okay I have a weird story about this. I grew up in Michigan and mosquitos have always been a huge problem. I’m talking a leg full of bites anytime I went outside for more than a few minutes. Then a couple years ago I came to Florida for college. Not a single mosquito bite for the duration of the school year. I figured maybe I just wasn’t allergic to the mosquitos down here, but then when I go home over the summer: nothing. I went from having horrible reactions to mosquitos to no reaction in just a couple of days. It’s been two years now and I’m still bite free.

@drered7180 5 лет назад

Something about Florida skeeters...

@raylliej1 5 лет назад

I’m usually a mosquito magnet. We LOVE to go camping, unfortunately so do the mosquitoes. I accidentally found out, at least for myself, that Claritin & Zyrtec have both helped me. Didn’t completely stop them, but for the most part they do not hurt as much when they bite. I told my nephew on a camping trip once, same went for him. So it’s definitely worth a try.

@hoplage Год назад

Mad respect to the human who voluntarily chose to walk around with 150 itchy mosquito bites for half a year FOR SCIENCE.

@ypcomchic 4 года назад

Considering they just found mosquitoes that have dengue fever here in California I think I’ll pass trying to become immune!!

@jmvneto51 4 года назад

You got that right! My wife has chikungunya now and she had dengue twice, and that was a piece of cake in comparison. She was kind of proud that I was so sensitive to mosquito bites that I would get up from bed and go on a hunt just by listening any zzzzzzzyng close to my ears. No (edited: Now.. ) she is just suffering the worst illness that I've seen on her. It Is pain all over her body all day long and the prognostics for a complete cure are dim. No, I, do not want to be discencitized, Chikungunya arrived in Brasil around 2016 and I want to be complete aware that those suckers are around! Cheers!

@ypcomchic 4 года назад

@@jmvneto51 wow! So sorry to hear that. Praying for you and your family! All these doctors and scientists have known about these diseases for years yet nobody has made a vaccine! It's not right.

@jmvneto51 4 года назад

@@ypcomchic, thank you for the concern and be aware of the illnesses mosquitoes can be spreading in your region. They suck!

@mertgunes9854 5 лет назад

This video is like 3-4 months late ...

@TheFlubber33 5 лет назад

3 days ago the fuckers seemed to double

@voongnz 5 лет назад

Perfect timing for me though.

@Primalxbeast 5 лет назад

Not in Florida

@dickJohnsonpeter 5 лет назад

sketti boi yes they sure the hell did. Like every mosquito that was here all summer just showed back up all at once.

@mon6745 5 лет назад

Not really.. my ankles got tore up last night

@lyleblue6739 5 лет назад

A mosquito bite can be neutralized with a hot spoon. Run one under scalding hot water, and press it to the bite. The spoon has just enough energy to denature the enzymes of the bite without much(any?) skin damage. You'll feel something like a zap, and the itch is gone ✨

@ilavvex2823 5 лет назад

I guess that's why my parents mosquito bite treatment worked. They would peel some pieces of onion layers and heat them up on a pan. Once hot, the onion piece would then be applied directly to the bite and boom, problem solved!

@YouShotMyRobot 5 лет назад

I'm going to try this!

@CigsInABlanket 5 лет назад

I just scratch the skin off and let it scab over. Seems to be effective.

@Lisa-fy1vi 5 лет назад

I don't see how a hot spoon can stop an immune response as it is something that happens inside your body, not on the surface of your skin... If it was that simple allergies would not be as big of a deal as they are for many people. My guess is the heat from the spoon just reduces the itching, doesn't actually suppress the immune response.

@cheekypasta55 5 лет назад

thats......gross.

@samantharose6445 3 года назад

I knew this but didn't know it. I grew up in North Port, Florida, and as a kid (ages 6 to 12) I was outside year round playing in the woods and being a kid. My legs would always...and I mean always....be covered in mosquito bites. One year it was so bad I remember not being able to get into my neighbor's pool because the (what seemed like hundreds of) bites on my legs stung so badly. Fast forward to now, I'm 29 (but the bites stopped when I was a teenager), and I can sit outside at night in the Florida summer and my skin looks like it NEVER got touched by a single Mosquito. Everyone I know is jealous and nobody likes to sit outside at night with me. Thanks for this video! It confirmed my suspicions about my body building an immunity to them!

@DroneBeeStrike 3 года назад

I've lived in the same small town in FL for most of my life, there's quite a lot of swamp land and let's just say I've been bit A LOT. I noticed years ago that i just don't react to the bites anymore. When I was a kid I remember scratching for hours but now i don't even notice them.

@william2331 5 лет назад

I tried it and now I have the West Nile virus

@potatopotato4887 5 лет назад

You’re literally in all my science classes!!! And now your on trending! 😂

@kataseiko 4 года назад

When I was reading the title, I was somewhat hoping for a version of this where the mosquito will die even trying to get through the skin..

@broddr 3 года назад

I was hoping for a way to make our blood allergic _for_ mosquitoes. So they would get a bad reaction and learn to avoid humans.

@chloukscolor7905 3 года назад

This is interesting. You see, I have always been a mosquito magnet. I used to get bitten a lot, still kind of do. Once, I got bitten so much people thought my parents had beaten me up. Yeah, it was that bad. But in the last few years, I’ve realized that my body’s reaction to them has mellowed out. I’ll still get bitten, mind you, but the bite will only scratch for a short-ish period of time (1-2h maybe ?), and then the bump will sort of spread and flatten and disappear in 24h. Good to know that it is a phenomenon that is recorded to happen.

@chloukscolor7905 3 года назад

Also I forgot to add : once you’ve been bitten, apply very hot water on the bite. After that, it won’t scratch anymore. My guess is that the temperature destroys the proteins injected by the mosquito.

@chinoex 4 года назад

This is true. They've been biting me since covid and I was frustrated at how quick they are. Now I just don't bother attempting to swat them while I workout. There's a lesson in that. Stay focused and don't let the mosquitos of life distract you.

@uss_04 5 лет назад

RIP anyone who becomes “desensitized” to bedbug bites.

@geoffreyanderson4719 4 года назад

Is it merely a immune system overreaction, or is it a hard-won evolutionary defense against the single most dangerous killer of humans of all time?

@lindatullos9430 3 года назад

Yeah I's want to know if I was bit since there are so many diseases they inject with their needle. Better to avoid being bit, so itchy bumps might make you stay away. repellant, and cover up when they are active.(That seems to be different times and conditions for different species.).

@adriansieja7377 3 года назад

It's that person's immune system being compromised and them needing to fix it.

@robjeanbras1130 3 года назад

Good News: I'm immune. Bad News: I now have zika and insephylitis.

@PHAZER99 5 лет назад

I wouldn't care if it messed up the ecological system i'd be more than happy to see mosquitos gone from existence

@dylanbarkhuizen7227 5 лет назад

The cool thing is it wouldn't.

@maracachucho8701 5 лет назад

@@dylanbarkhuizen7227 Biologist here, this is a fact. Some mosquito species are important pollinators, but none of them are the kind that bites.

@jasminewood395 5 лет назад

@Dream Delirium I'm not sure that I believe it but at least one recent study, sorry I can't cite it, claims that if mosquitos were to become extinct it wouldn't really affect any thing in a negative way. They claim that all the niches they fill could be filled by other creatures. Like I said, not I believe it, a lot of things feed on mosquitoes, but I don't think anything exclusively feeds on them, and there are any number of other small creatures that live in very similar places and similar ways to mosquitoes. I don't think it really matters that much, we're pretty good at killing of small populations of unique things, but eliminating mass amounts of plants or animals, especially invasive species that we spread around ourselves, like the Asian tiger mosquitos that have invaded the east coast is A LOT harder.

@CeliaTyree 5 лет назад

@dynamicworlds1 5 лет назад

@Dream Delirium counterpoint: Smallpox. If we can just target the mosquito species we want, it shouldn't have a significant effect. We're still working on the tech for that (rather than our grossly heavy-handed past measures), but it should be something we can do before long.

@andresrebata1958 5 лет назад

Nice video! I have ulcerative colitis and am definitely interested in how the immune system works. My disease has held me back a lot but hopefully soon I'll graduate and will work on a cure!

@nomadtc 4 года назад

Vitamin B12 I think! Used to work at an outdoor store and we sold these patches you'd put on your arm... The body absorbs it through the skin AND IT WORKS. You sweat/ body odour changes and mosquitos don't touch you. Or else it's only the really brave ones.. So like 2/3 bites from a weekend camping instead of 50. Also we think you get drunker as well for some reason soooo bonus baby!

@drsuperhero 3 года назад

When camping stand in the smoke, don’t shower and keep getting yourself coated in camp Smoke and sweat. No mosquitoes after a couple days.

@KarlBunker 3 года назад

> "No mosquitoes after a couple days." No friends or intimate relationships either, I'll bet. 😁

@drsuperhero 3 года назад

@@KarlBunker yeah, you will get asked about when you might shower next! No skeeters though!

@wastyeasty8042 5 лет назад

Thanks for getting my hopes up, Hank :( I have super severe reactions to mosquitoes. My bites swell to at least the size of a half dollar.

@bumblingbears2933 5 лет назад

I was talking about bee allergies with my dentist when he relayed a story of a friend of his who went through a desensitization treatment for bee stings. He was severely allergic at the beginning, but by the end of the treatment had no reaction. Amazing! ...until a little while later he was on a boat, got stung, and went into anaphylactic shock. Since he no longer had an epipen, thinking he was "cured", he ultimately suffered long-term brain damage due to the lack of oxygen. So, uh- yeah. While cool on the surface level, be wary of the long-term repercussions?

@mitchelldavidson1821 3 года назад

I always found it odd but I barely get bitten by mosquitos much less have reactions to them. My dad says it's the same for him. Do mosquitos dislike certain blood types more or somthing?

@freeeggs3811 3 года назад

It is genetics.

@BunnyOfThunder 3 года назад

They did this to one guy? That's not a study that's just serious dedication to a practical joke.

@amberbydreamsart5467 5 лет назад

"the more you stay in one region, the less your reaction seems to be" THATS WHY MOSQUITO BITES WERE SO BAD WHEN I WAS STUDYING ABROAD

@arthas640 4 года назад

thats also why people in tropical reagions barely notice mosquitos

@EyeHeartThePanda 5 лет назад

My reaction to mosquitoes bites from the NW (mainly Oregon) is super minor. However, I was bitten by one while living in Austin Texas and my reaction was significantly worse. It is kind of crazy how different locations can affect the level of reaction. In contrast, I didn't have much of a reaction for the mosquitoes that bit me while living in Japan. Crazy XD

@6135minecraft 5 лет назад

that's probably because they are different species....

@turtle4llama 5 лет назад

It's because they're different species. I don't know why they didn't make that clear in the video.

@taradreams3 5 лет назад

Same, I never had much reaction living in New Mexico, then while moving to Florida I got bitten in Louisiana and I had a major reaction.

@sammjust2233 5 лет назад

I have the same thing, eastern United States I get nothing but in other places I react

@Primalxbeast 5 лет назад

Dream Delirium Your friends are my type of people, I like to have a tall person ride in front of me while bike riding on trails, because they catch all the spider webs.

@adriennefloreen 3 года назад

They didn't have the guy bitten by enough mosquitoes. I still reacted to bites after almost two months at a rainbow gathering where I got more than 100 bites per day on each square inch of exposed flesh. In my video they're joking saying I got the measles there because I'm so covered with bites it looks like I did.

@howdythere3121 3 года назад

This has happened to me! As a child I spent summers with my grandparents in Mississippi. I played outdoors in the woods and at the creek from sun up to dark most days. I was eaten up constantly! My ankles were scabbed over all the time. As an adult I hardly ever get a bite that causes a welt or itches. Now I am the only one in my family who can go out and not be bothered by them.

@0918168789 5 лет назад

I can tell you from experience I was immune for a while. I get almost no reaction from bites or they disappear within 15 mins. (I was living in a house with so many mosquitos and I got bited countless times daily) now how ever I live in mosquitos free house and when I go outside I no longer have that immunity. It's either that or i got bit by different species of mosquitos. 🤔 Thank you so much for this videos. I always thought I had built an immunity to the bites, but couldn't never confirm it. Now I know it isn't just some stupid stuff I made up😅.

@broddr 3 года назад

Here in Georgia I think a new species of mosquito has wondered in. Because while most of my bites just itch a little, some actually itch and burn. Like mosquito poison ivy.

@Sigita989 4 года назад

been living wth this alergy for 31 years. never got imune. have alergy to any bug bites or poisons.

@ErgonBill 3 года назад

That tiny little allergic reaction may prevent you from acquiring malaria, dengue fever and a host of other vector borne diseases.

@superxxamadeus4098 3 года назад

I’ve worked outside the last 4 summers (one almost entirely in the woods) I don’t like bug spray and i also don’t kill things including bugs for reasons related to spiritual convictions. I used to get really bad reactions and now i get almost no reaction and it disappears in a day unless i scratch the bite. When i was watching the video i was like “what? Only under 2 thousand bites?” I’m probably well on my way at this point lol