Everything you need to know about bug spray ingredients
Nothing kills our chill-out-in-nature vibe faster than becoming an all-you-can-eat buffet for mosquitos, ticks and other bloodsuckers. And beyond the maddening itchiness, insect bites can pass along serious disease too?even if you?re not somewhere tropical.
?While Canada does not have local transmission of insect-borne killers like malaria and dengue, there are infectious diseases spread by insects here that can ruin your summer,? says Dr. David Fisman, professor of epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, pointing to West Nile virus (from infected mosquitoes) and Lyme disease (via deer ticks).
So how can you get bugs to buzz off without dousing your family’s skin in irritating chemicals" Here?s what you should know about insect repellents?the good, the bad and the useless. TRY MUSKOL INSECT REPELLENT PUMP SPRAY, $9, WELL.CA, OR OFF! FAMILYCARE INSECT REPELLENT SMOOTH & DRY, $9, WALMART.CA
DEET
Invented for the US military in the ’40s, DEET still ranks most effective. In a study testing 16 bug repellents on particularly game volunteers, published in 2002 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), DEET-based repellents fared best, giving ?complete protection for the longest duration.? DEET?s side effects?some minor (skin/eye irritation), others scary (seizures and other neurological symptoms)?make a lot of people leery. But serious reactions are very rare; they?re typically linked to repeatedly applying way ...
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