{"id":19663,"date":"2025-09-16T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=19663"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:32:34","slug":"quick-fixes-for-mosquito-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/quick-fixes-for-mosquito-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Fixes for Mosquito Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><em>By Cait Johnson, Assistant Producer, Care2 Healthy Living Newsletters &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.care2.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, despite our best intentions, the little buzzers manage to sneak a snack\u2013on us! The next time you or your little ones get an itchy bug bite, try these quick and simple remedies. They are all kid-friendly and very effective, as well as being completely safe and natural.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite uses an ingredient you probably have sitting in a bowl on your kitchen countertop.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use banana peel to take the itch out of mosquito bites. Just rub the pulpy inside surface of the peel on the bite.<\/li>\n<li>Rub the bite with\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/scentual-moods.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soap<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Apply an ice pack to the bite.<\/li>\n<li>Mix baking soda with enough water to make a paste and apply to the bite.<\/li>\n<li>Apply\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lavender<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tea Tree<\/a>\u00a0oils with a swab.<\/li>\n<li>Rub a piece of freshly-cut onion on the bite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Quick Fixes for Mosquito Bites\" href=\"\/general\/first-aid-injuries-bites\/quick-fixes-for-mosquito-bites\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(234 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)<\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cait Johnson, Assistant Producer, Care2 Healthy Living Newsletters &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/www.care2.com\/ Sometimes, despite our best intentions, the little buzzers manage to sneak a snack\u2013on us! The next time you or your little ones get an itchy bug bite, try these quick and simple remedies. They are all kid-friendly and very effective, as well as being completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-aid-injuries-bites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}