Is mosquito repellent harmful to people?
Normal use does not affect health.
The main components of mosquito repellent water are mosquito repellent amine and alcohol, which can repel mosquitoes as long as they are coated on the surface of human skin. Mosquito repellent amine is an insecticide. As long as it is produced by regular manufacturers, the proportion of ingredients is strictly controlled in the production process, which will not affect the daily life of consumers.
However, it should be noted that babies are sensitive to these ingredients and are not suitable for regular use. At the same time, pay attention to the dosage. Generally speaking, infants under 6 months are not allowed to use mosquito repellent, while children aged 6 months to 2 years can use products with mosquito repellent concentration below 10%, but only once a day. Don't touch mosquito repellent often, and don't use it for a long time, so as not to be harmful to health.
What should I do if mosquito repellent is sprayed into my child's eyes?
Don't worry too much if the mosquito repellent accidentally enters your baby's eyes. Under normal circumstances, people's eyes have a self-protective closing action. Even if mosquito repellent gets into their eyes, it won't be much. Take the following measures to deal with it.
1. You can wash your eyes with mineral water or pure water.
2. If you have an anti-inflammatory potion at home, you can drop it several times to play the role of washing and anti-inflammation.
3, if the baby's eye irritation symptoms are obvious, you need to go to the ophthalmology for further treatment.
What should I do if I am allergic to spraying mosquito repellent?
1. When it is confirmed that your body has allergic reaction due to spraying mosquito repellent, you should first stay away from allergens and stop spraying mosquito repellent.
2. Then clean the local skin exposed to allergens. When local itching occurs, ointment with antiallergic and antipruritic effects can be properly applied to local skin to prevent more serious allergic reactions. If the allergy is serious, you need to go to the hospital for treatment.
3. When allergic reaction occurs, scratch should be avoided as far as possible, otherwise secondary infection will easily occur after skin ulceration, which will aggravate allergic reaction.
4. During the allergic attack, you should avoid drinking, smoking, spicy food, or seafood, fish and shrimp and other foods that are easy to cause allergies.
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1. Pay attention to using mosquito repellent. It is best to apply a layer of skin cream first and then on the skin surface to avoid allergic problems caused by direct application of mosquito repellent.
2. Mosquito repellent water is not suitable for use with sunscreen. First, the mixture of the two will reduce or even completely offset the mosquito repellent effect of mosquito repellent water; Secondly, in hot weather, the two may also have a chemical reaction, causing skin inflammation.
Is mosquito repellent useful?
Qualified mosquito repellent water has good mosquito repellent effect.
The main components of mosquito repellent water are mosquito repellent amine and alcohol, which have a good repellent effect on mosquitoes, cockroaches and fleas. Qualified mosquito repellent can prevent 99% mosquitoes from biting within 6-8 hours. The principle of mosquito repellent water is to use drugs to directly act on the tactile organs and chemoreceptors of mosquitoes, thus achieving the purpose of mosquito repellent.
However, it should be noted that when buying mosquito repellent, we should pay special attention to the quality and try to buy brand products in big shopping malls, otherwise it is very likely to buy fake and shoddy products, which will greatly reduce the mosquito repellent effect or have no effect at all.
Which mosquito repellent method is the safest?
The most reliable way to prevent mosquitoes for babies in summer is to use mosquito nets, screens or electric mosquito swatter.
In addition, when the baby goes out to play, avoid going to the haystacks and sewage with many mosquitoes; When going out at night, it is best to put on light-colored long-sleeved trousers for your baby to avoid the chance of skin contact with mosquitoes.
Secondly, pay attention to indoor cleaning, clean regularly, and leave no hiding and breeding places for mosquitoes. When the baby goes out, he can regularly spray mosquito repellent spray on the bed bottom, ceiling, bathroom and kitchen, and pay attention to ventilation. When he comes back, the number of mosquitoes at home will be much reduced. These are relatively reliable and safe mosquito repellent methods.