Is cutting open mosquito bites effective? Thread

I wanna know this...aside from getting scars, I wanna know if cutting open my mosuquito bites with an exacto blade will stop them from itching. I got fucking ravaged today walking to high school. Damn mosquitoes...

- Edited By Sticky On Fri 27th, Aug 2004 @ 11:37:11pm

i think it'd hurt?

well....of course it'd hurt.....but a quick, superficial slash is what i'm thinkin of...

EDIT: think that would mean the saliva from the mosquitoes, (which, for all you uneducated people out there, is a moderate irritant, causing MIND NUMBING ITCHINESS!!!!AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!) after i deliver some quick cuts, would drain?

- Edited By Sticky On Fri 27th, Aug 2004 @ 11:48:53pm

Uh, *cough*WestNile*cough* Good luck!!

I know. I got at least a solid 5 bites today....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

i'm thinking of cutting them open tonight....who wants play by play?

- Edited By Sticky On Fri 27th, Aug 2004 @ 11:54:31pm

found the exacto knife!

- Edited By Sticky On Fri 27th, Aug 2004 @ 11:57:23pm

ME OH GOD YES ME

you got it! just lemme sterilize the blade with some alchol...or something

found the peroxide...

i'm just kinda poking at it......i'm hoping i'll just be able to puncture it...

went through skin....just the top layer....no blood, yet

we got blood......but no free flow....i want free flow

fuck exacto. I'm going to use mah razor blade

the edge of the razor works great!

it's done with minimal blood loss....but a drop or two comes out. i got the worst one. no other ones should bother me.
- Edited By Sticky On Sat 28th, Aug 2004 @ 12:08:10am

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- Edited By Sticky On Sat 28th, Aug 2004 @ 12:14:23am

this can go to topic hell now

- Edited By Sticky On Sat 28th, Aug 2004 @ 12:17:30am
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- Edited By pr0stsh0cker On Sat 28th, Aug 2004 @ 12:34:17am

owned.
so ya remove the deadly toxins?

Dude, that's just disgusting. If it bothers you so much, just rub some ointment or whatever on it, and that will stop the itching. You don't have to use a razor blad to use self-inflicting damage, not to mention it's not really a method you use to stop the itching in a mosquito bite. If that was true, every doctor in the world would be using a blade to lop off mosq bites

i agree shut up about your stupid bug bites why the heck do we have to find out about them ne way

Sticky wrote: I know. I got at least a solid 5 bites today....
i'm thinking of cutting them open tonight....who wants play by play?

5? Your lucky. Here, during the summer, you can't stay outside very long
for fear of being eaten by the mosquitos.

Cutting them open is stupid. Not only will you be using an unsterile instrument
but it will take much longer for them to go away. Don't scratch, just rub the
bites. Has the same effect and it wont get infected.

- Edited By Dr_Zoidberg On Sat 28th, Aug 2004 @ 1:56:50pm

Its interesting though because somepeople they stay while others they'll disappear pretty fast. And their a lot worse in northern minesota or canada, as in really bad.

I haven't gotten any mosquito bites here in Kansas this year except when I slept outside on the ground ( and that was probably chigers)

Sticky = Mosquito Magent

oh ya canada=misqitoe heaven and americans hell..... ah fear the canadians!!!! and misqitoes

misqites...hehe I never get bit by them little buggers...because there too stupid, last time any misqite came close to bittin me, I smashed it, and it was bloody all over my leg, and that was in 5th grade, about 7 years ago, and I live in Az, I got worse things to worry about, like melting!

Dr_Zoidberg wrote:
Cutting them open is stupid. Not only will you be using an unsterile instrument
but it will take much longer for them to go away.

- Edited By Dr_Zoidberg On Sat 28th, Aug 2004 @ 1:56:50pm

Um.....I'm not that stupid to use an unsterile blade, ....I soaked that bastard in hydrogen peroxide.

t3h wrote: not to mention it's not really a method you use to stop the itching in a mosquito bite. If that was true, every doctor in the world would be using a blade to lop off mosq bites

I didn't lop them off. I cut them open with the corner of a straightedge razor blade, and it worked spectacularly. 3 or 4 superficial (but still able to bleed) cuts worked great. If you can take pain like I can, you would realize that it's a very effective method that stops the itch. So long as you sterilize the blade, (done easily with isopropyl alcohol or hydrogen peroxide) and make sure you only deliver light (but bleeding) cuts, the mosquito saliva drains out with the drop or two (if you did it right) of blood.

I don't condemn this method, and I don't condone it. Give it a shot if you want, just be careful. Sterilize the object being used to cut/pierce, and use the very edge with quick, light strokes. And the cuts don't need to be gargantuan either. The biggest cut I delivered to myself if less than 1/2 an inch. Jeez people. Loosen up.

EDIT: now i'm going to do it to two other bite things! HAHAHAHAHAH!!

- Edited By Sticky On Sat 28th, Aug 2004 @ 11:26:13pm

Ive heard spitting on them makes the itch go away.

But remeber kids prevention is the key wear bug replent.

- Edited By Pengus On Sun 29th, Aug 2004 @ 12:08:05am

lavender oil works perfectly stops irritations instantly

well, i already cut one open. the other one doesn't really bother me...

i want pictures

no digital camera. and i dun wanna waste film. trust me, if I was able to post pics, i would post before, during (bleeding) and after.

I GOTZ TEH WEST NIEL

I don't really see why this deserved a thread, though. It's just disgusting

Is cutting open mosquito bites effective?

No, they'll get infected and just itch more.

my dad likes to scratch em off, always worked for him.. Not cut em, but scratch em so hard, they rip open and bleed out.. He scratches them OFF.. lol Works for him, but i enver thought to try it.. Mosquito bites never botheres me enuff to cut or scratch em off, i just let em sit.. And sides, i very rarley get bitten.. they dont like my blood.. lol