After I first was diagnosed, like may of you, I started reading everything I could about cancer and how to fight it. I have a library of about a dozen or more cancer books on my nightstand. Certainly, having a more alkaline ph level is something mentioned in a number of those books. But what I found interesting when I first read about body ph is that if you have an unhealthy ph ( too acidic ) you will most likely not get bug bites. Apparently, insects do not like acidic bodies. Like the fact that I had irregular pooping habits before cancer, reading about bug bites, or lack thereof, was another "aha" finding for me after diagnosis. In the few years before I was diagnosed, I used to laugh about not getting bug bites when everyone else around me was getting lots of them. After diagnosis and reading about body ph, I have changed my diet drastically to a more alkaline diet. I was very disappointed last summer when I still didn't seem to get bug bites, until a friend who is somewhat of a natural health expert told me that with me just coming off of chemo, bugs would be repelled by the chemo still going through my body. So I've continued on my plant-based diet. Well. last weekend I was outside quite a bit, and guess what ? I have about a half dozen mosquito bites all over my body. It may sound kooky, but I am so happy to have those skeeter bites ! I will gladly deal with the itchiness if it means I have improved my body's ph level. It is so funny when I think about the things I pay attention to now. I know this is long, but I just wanted to let you know that you should not be annoyed if you end up with bug bites - it is actually a good thing.
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Mosquito Bites - A sign of a healthy body ?
- By youngmom
- Posted July 16, 2009 at 6:16 pm · 10 replies
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- By Brown_Eyes
- Posted July 16, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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That's interesting :) I finished chemo about a month and a half ago in the end of May. Went camping in the middle of June and didn't get any mosquito bites-went outside this week and got a bunch.... I hope that's a good thing :) Thanks for sharing that info.
- By darlingclem
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 12:01 am
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That's so funny! I was just telling a friend that chemo was the best bug repellent around. Even the ones that would dare take a drink would fall off dead after drinking my rather chemo-saturated blood. I agree that I celebrated when I went camping 3 months later and was covered.
- By ConnieCrafton
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 8:06 am
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I was thrilled when I got a mosquito bite - Imagined that mosquito developing cancer - a sweet revenge, I thought.
- By lovemnms
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 8:08 am
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The mosquito connection never occured to me. I was bitten a few times last week!
- By FavoriteAunt
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 8:49 am
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No bug bites for me, but don't be too anxious to get them with West Nile Virus still around!
- By verlinda
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 11:40 am
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I had the same experience. Even more interesting, I had started visiting a naturopath and had been doing some detox supplements. We won't even talk about how much waste came out of my colon. I don't know where it all hid. Shortly after I started the supplements, the mosquitoes started biting again.
- By Dot
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing this. I stopped getting bug bites after my kidney-pancreas transplant in 1998. I've always thought it's because of the medications I take to avoid rejection. I'm still not getting bites, now that I have OVCA, whether on chemo or not, so I guess the transplant "repellent" is still working. :-) A mosquito (or other bug) will occasionally hover over my skin or even land, but they leave quickly and never bite. I'll take that as a side effect!
- By zircons
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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I don't know about that. Bugs have always loved me. So what does that say????
- By dwm26
- Posted July 17, 2009 at 6:26 pm
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I always got a lot of bug bites except while I was pregnant. Not sure what that says.
- By jethro
- Posted July 18, 2009 at 9:58 pm
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The bug question>>>>>I didn't get the bites while on chemo 1 and 2 but now on chemo 3 they love me. But here it is summer in Texas, they'll bite just about anything come evening. Chemos 1 and 2 were from October through May but we do have 'sketos pretty much year round.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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