What this means is in Thailand you don't hear or see a Thai mosquito zoning in on your best bite spot. You, even you hairy legged men, won't feel them land. So what do you do to protect yourself against mosquito carried disease like malaria, treatment resistant malaria and dingy fever. Get a shot? or ....
There are simple ways to reduce your contact with these CO2 sniffing vampires. The most effective way to prevent being bitten is to simply stop breathing ... Not an acceptable option, well then ...
consider the following:
1) wear light colored clothing .. instinct tells a mosquito to avoid light colors as they are visible and they can be killed.
2) Do not put naked legs and feet under table top type surfaces as this is a favorite squito hide-out!
3) Do not sit next to the plants at the edge of a venue as this is their second hide-out from which they come to you from under the table.
4) Do avoid being outside during the squito hour 30 minute before and after sunset.
5) Do sleep inside a squito net made for these tiny squitos. In Canada we would ask for a no-se-em net!
6) Do carry some anti-itch cream (calamine lotion)
with you as you will get bitten (we're not promoting any specific brand).
You can try oil you squeeze from the skin of Kaffir lime fruit as an anti itch remedy and enjoy its aroma therapy at the same time.
Do not scratch them into an infectious state as then your vacation will be changed, but not only changed but rather changed by a mosquito and that would suck! No pun intended.
From all of us at Chef LeeZ Thai Cooking School BKK ... Have a safe and wondrous Thailand experience!
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