Hi steemian ...
Mosquito bites cause itchy bumps on the skin. The sound of mosquitoes will be disturbing, especially at bedtime. When gathered together, maybe you've seen mosquitoes just targeting a certain person. At that time, you would have thought the others were using anti-mosquito lotion.
There are five reasons why mosquitoes target only certain people.
1. Blood type
Based on the blood group that humans have, mosquitoes prefer blood type O among other blood groups, because blood type O does not have antigen. The antigen serves to ward off blood substances that enter the body. So the absence of this substance makes mosquitoes more freely suck blood.
2. Carbon dioxide levels
Known, mosquitoes will get its target on the help of carbon dioxide released by humans. Thus, when a person releases more carbohydrates than others, the mosquitoes will become stronger to attack the person. In fact, mosquitoes also tend to be more pursuit of pregnant women because it is very much releasing carbon dioxide.
3. Body heat and sweat
It should be noted that mosquitoes are also very sensitive to lactic acid. The sweat released by the human body is found to contain this substance. In addition, ammonia and residue compounds in human sweat become the penchant for this blood-sucking animal.
4. Alcoholic Beverages
Ethanol content in beer drinks can attract mosquitoes to be more intense attack. Known, people who after drinking alcohol will release ethanol liquid on sweat.
5. Steroids and cholesterol
Someone who has steroids and high cholesterol is more likely to be the target of mosquitoes. Because, a layer of skin that is indicated steroid and high cholesterol is very thin so as to facilitate mosquitoes suck blood.
