LAS CRUCES — Health officials offer their common-sense advice to avoid mosquito bites. Remove standing water around your house. Wear DEET-based repellent. Stay inside in the morning or evening. After all, West Nile virus is nothing to ignore, already infecting five people in Doña Ana County, and a 12 others statewide. It’s much worse in Texas.
Sun-News readers have their own, alternative means for protecting themselves, which they shared Sept. 7 via the Las Cruces Sun-News Facebook page.
Tanya Lilley: Tea Tree and Lavender oil. (not the fragrance but the actual pure oil)
Chuck McNally: Eat LOOOOOOOOOOTS of garlic!
Heather Kelly: I use Skin So Soft oil by Avon. Mixes with water in a apart bottle. Smells much better then Off! and works just as well.
Dru Herrera: Vitamin B supplements!
Michael Scanlon: Someone said to mix Listerine mouthwash with three parts water and spray it on the dog to keep mosquitoes off him. For human mosquito bites, we keep a small bottle of Campho-Phenique. www.campho-phenique.com
Christian Heller: I don’t get bit by them little vampires. My wife takes a garlic capsule daily, (and) has not been bitten by them little suckers in a long time.
Martin Oliver: Apple vinegar and water, in a spray bottle. It really works.
Natasha Fountain: There was a lady on (the)
Downtown Mall selling herbal repellent that I apply most nights and mornings. Bought it last year, and it only takes a single drop on a Q-tip to put on pulse points — around ankles, neck, waist, forehead and down arms.
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