Causes of Mosquito likes to bite us

Have found the reason why mosquitoes like to bite us. According to the researchers was that the mosquito is a delicious beverage drinkers. But female mosquitoes drink blood as a provider of energy and protein needed to develop her eggs. It also mediates a variety of deadly diseases such as yellow fever, dengue fever and malaria which can lead to death.

What makes mosquito bites we are interested in compounds called ketone compounds. "Mosquitoes can detect in a wide range of chemicals and to distinguish signals that could help the mosquito to identify something as a human being," said Dr. James Logan, a researcher from Rothamsted Research, as quoted by the Telegraph, Friday (09/25/2009).

People with high ketone levels will be more rare than being bitten by mosquitoes that have low ketone. This compound has been tested on human skin to see how effective ketone in rejecting mosquitoes. And it turned out very effective against three types of mosquitoes including Culex mosquitoes.

But for those of you who turned out to have low ketone aroma compounds that make a mosquito bite are interested in the skin, you can perform some of these anticipatory steps to avoid mosquito bites:

1. Strict diet
2. Do not drink beverages containing ethyl alcohol
3. Avoid the use of fragrances
4. Avoid using deodorant

The above meant that we have a natural body odor that makes your body become resistant to mosquito bites.

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