Vampires Could Be Real and Here's Why

[@Red_3791]

I’m allergic to garlic and the sun. And so is my mom but she also has terrible insomnia. Her Romanian mother does not find it as funny as we do . . . 😅

[@thehomeschoolinglibrarian]

Yes I lived in Romania for two years and they really don't like the whole vampire thing.

[@Red_3791]

@@thehomeschoolinglibrarian that’s so awesome! I haven’t been in a while but would love to live there for a bit. I’m also born in October and just love all things spooky lol I mean. I even do SFX makeup for a living 😂

[@AramatiPaz]

@@thehomeschoolinglibrarian I though they liked it for bringing tourism.

[@hal9713]

hey, same! i also have been clinically diagnosed with "not enough blood"

[@nicolasgralewicz4727]

@@AramatiPaz People who benefit like it (government and people who work in the tourism industry) but just like anywhere else in the world views on tourists are varied. I guess it could be annoying for tourists - and even offensive in some cases - to be drawn to your country because of a character in a British novel though. I'd imagine most people don't mind s tourist who's interested in seeing Bran Castle and other "vampire attractions" but also wants to experience other more authentic aspects of their culture.

[@Essman614]

So you are saying the symptoms of being a vampire are similar, but we shouldn't be afraid of them due to modern medicine? That sounds like something a vampire would say

[@colinmaclaughlanweir9670]

No we would not, I mean there is no such thing !

[@OrangePiggy]

Nah, vampires are either really hot, or deformed. . . He's average looking at best

[@Essman614]

They have script writers and people who compile information for the videos.

[@Essman614]

@@OrangePiggy also things a vampire would say

[@OrangePiggy]

@@Essman614 you should wash your water before microwaving it

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

An additional fact about vampire bats is they have elongated stomachs to speed up water absorption, so that their excretory system can purge it quickly. Since they need to drink half their weight in blood every day, this is necessary to help keep their body weight low enough to fly off in a hurry. So when it comes to all those vampire romance stories, it's not all that romantic for a vampire to be biting into your neck if he's also going to be peeing down your leg the whole time.

[@taigapup72]

Says you 👀 But for real that's really cool. The differences in gut structure between species is fascinating

[@AramatiPaz]

Great time for who is necrophiliac and like golden shower.

[@SilverGreeneye]

You would think 😒

[@jordanwhite352]

So vore and watersports?

[@ElleriaZer]

@@jordanwhite352 I'm not sure how I feel for understanding these terms. I blame The Click.

[@paulmatulevich3623]

As I learn of Catalepsy in an episode about vampires, I am left to think "That's not a vampire, it's a were-possum"

[@Ivy99999]

Lmao it's perfect, because just like the person, there's nothing the opossum can do to initiate or exit the occurrence, and they're probably at least somewhat aware while it's happening

[@a_diamond]

As someone with narcolepsy, I support this 😂❤😊

[@CarolLynnWilliams]

Friend: is that a garlic necklace ??? Buddy: yes, it's to scare off vampires !!! Friend: there aren't any vampires !!!!! Buddy: see, it works !!!!!!!

[@emmmahezw]

BUFFY!

[@CarolLynnWilliams]

@Poor Quality Gameplay *"Baby, sometimes in this world, you see things you don't want to see.* (- - Neil, *Dirty Dancing*.)

[@semaj_5022]

I'm not your friend, buddy!

[@willrustad9217]

I'm not your buddy, pal!

[@iciclecold2991]

We all know someone this stupid...

[@colinburke8389]

1. the vampire myth and their association with bats came about LONG before the first European saw a vampire bat, as they're a new world creature. 2. So it's true, vampires don't suck blood, they scrape and lick.

[@musicgirl12357]

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[@alexisflory6496]

Strigoi!

[@TimmyTwo-Toes]

Pale, Afraid of sunlight, Thirsty? Are you sure that’s not just me hungover?

[@Lerrae1908]

I have PMLE but exposure makes it start to get worse over time, not better, and repeated exposures make it behave more like solar urticaria (throat can close up, flu like symptoms, etc.). It's really miserable. I loved being outside all the time as a kid and I wanted to do work in a zoo/outdoors. Myriad other health issues have hampered all of that over time, but the sun thing was the first major problem I had and it's heartbreaking to realize what's going on.

[@iciclecold2991]

Bro, that sucks. Luckily, you can still work at a zoo! Night shift is a thing and they really need people for that.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

That's super rough. Wonder if specialized clothing helps.

[@Quickbite2]

hey i was scrolling threw comments and saw urs . you are actually like me then mine gets worse too and as a kid i also wanted to work outside with animals as a conservationist. it sucks .

[@Zuraneve]

The whole sensitization/desensitization to different populations of mosquitoes makes a lot of sense. I just figured I wasn't allergic to New England mosquitoes...turns out, I just haven't been bitten enough. I was definitely sensitized to Texas mosquitoes when I lived there. Those little buggers would give me welts with 2-3 inch streaks radiating off them.

[@sophiejune4515]

Drain you life away. Sounds like nearly everyone I work with. Vampire Bats so cute 🦇

[@Anuchan]

I especially like how they mimic a baby chick to get a mother hen to let it drink its blood. I'll try that one with my wife tonight.

[@rivergreen1727]

There are other symptoms of porphyria that relate to the vampire myth, that weren't mentioned in this video. The changes in the gums can cause them to recede, making the teeth look longer, and consuming iron-rich food was a common treatment for porphyria a few hundred years ago. They mentioned that it's hereditary, but not that it's recessive, so it was much more common in the heavily inbred royals and nobles, who already inspired fear and awe. So when medieval folk saw their pale, crazed, sun-avoidant lord chowing down on bloody liver with his long teeth and red mouth, it's no wonder they thought something supernatural was going on!

[@gacorley]

"Local mosquitoes" is an important qualifier. When my wife first moved to the US, she had huge reactions to American mosquito bites, much more than she ever experienced in China. Over time, it reduced to a normal reaction, but she is still extremely wary of mosquitoes because of this.

[@-Slinger-]

Citronella has never worked for me, but since mosquitos really like my blood I can say that after 35y I've finally become immune-ish to the local bastards. I get an itchy bump for ~10mins and that's it.

[@PadanGedowitch]

It's a head thing. If you don't pay much attention to the bites the body will stop carring about them as well. My bumps never itch and go away quickly.

[@kassywilson7292]

unfortunately, I never stayed in the same neighborhood long enough to get cozy and friendly with the local bloodsuckers.

[@poweredbymoonlight9869]

Mosqitos hate the smell of lavendel as well.

[@christineday5233]

The aluminum salts in your normal deodorant will take the swelling and itching out of mosquito and fire ant bites. Pass it along. Super helpful!

[@Anuchan]

So mosquitoes and ticks are competing for the title vampire insect.

[@jannetteberends8730]

Nice to learn the name of something I had years ago. PMLE, never heard of it, but suffered from it for a decade. It suddenly started in the year I got my bachelor. Probably the stress triggered it. After some years the inflicted area became smaller and smaller. The last year it was a tiny spot. And then it was gone. Now I’m intolerant for alcohol. And doesn’t go away. That really sucks. On sunny days I miss a glass of white beer so much.

[@michaelajia6435]

I have severe PMLE and found this video very interesting! So many people think sun allergy is just a rash but it is so much more. Not only is the rash extremely painful, but when I am exposed to a lot of sun I also struggle to breath, feel dizzy and have heavy flu symptoms. It can also trigger other allergies that I don’t normally have. For example on days where I went outside I can’t eat seafood or fish. The worst thing is my body don’t get exposed to enough sunlight to have a normal sleep cycle, I sleep once every two days and the sleep last for 10 hours or more. It puts enormous pressure on my social life, work life and love life. I haven’t slept normally for 10 years, haven’t been to a beach in 10 years, have to skip on events if its a sunny day, and can never visit Spain or Italy again. Cloth wise its just a lot of boring black long sleeves, no cute skirts or tops or anything summery. Hopefully one day there will be treatment or cure for people like us.

[@Ge_sus]

Hah, my mom used to call me a vampire when i was around 13/14. I developed a sun allergy at that age (my mother and grandma both had this too around the same age) I couldn't even sit on the window side at school, and even with long clothes i still had horrible rashes when i went outside. It went away after about 2 years, now i'm just overly sensetive to sunlight and burn fast, but no more rashes. That plus my natrual paleness and insomnia at that age earned me my special nickname.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

Some knew of that catalepsy so some graves were equipped with an alerting bell system for if the body "revived" or woke up, they'd ring the bell.

[@Dragonbleps]

Becoming desensitized to mosquito bites sounds nice, but I've already gotten Encephalitis from a mosquito once and would not like to repeat that ordeal xD Unfortunately I live in Florida and the suckers are everywhere........

[@dragoness48]

Mosquitos are not the worst blood sucking insect out there as far as itching is concerned. No see ums are much worse. The itch is terribly difficult to calm. I have found a combination of a heat device applied to each itchy bump several times a day and then applying a home made salve from the plantain plant that grows in your yard infused in olive oil, chickweed infused in olive oil and calendula essential oil added to a carrier oil (I like a little almond oil and some olive oil) and melted beeswax to stiffen it up to a salve consistency as well as using an oral antihistamine. That works the best for me.

[@RocketJo86]

As someone who was highl allergic to sunlight as a child (PMLE, most likely) and still is - albeit not as heavy -, I have grown to my own theory about at least my cause. It looks like it has a lot to do with either clacium or Vitamin D. When I was a child I comsumed lots and lots of ice cream, chocolate and milk in the summer, when my skin was exposed more to the sunlight. I cut back on almost all of it as a teenager, when my allergy suddenly healed completly. Now, as an adult, I consume more diary again which leads to rashes on exposed parts of my arms especially in summer. I don't experience those as long as I consume only small amounts of milk and diary over the course of a week or two. And even if the rashes started, I can still managed to put a stop on them by not consuming any milk for some days. So I highly suspect that there is something going on with the combination of (probably) the calcium and sunlight.

[@iamthemachinedd]

Today I learned that bats treat their neighbors better than humans do.

[@Backinblackbunny009]

No capitalism in batworld. No feudalism or monarchy either. That helps a lot

[@something-from-elsewhere]

@@Backinblackbunny009 Ye generally when we don't have competition and selfishness heavily incentivized people act a lot more like the bats

[@LordofDarknessX]

You no longer have to wait for life lets take it on together.....

[@amateruss]

Not true... I lived in Gotham for a couple of years.

[@illiengalene2285]

Hi, I actually got sunlight allergy, in a sub form called polymorph photodermatosis. My hair follicle inflame and I'm terribly itchy and sometimes I get big patches of bleeding skin. Possibly it could also be MCAS, a condition, where the immunsystem is a totally loose gun.. I actually got a misshapen jaw, containing 4 long canines . It is comorbidit with ADHD and over that DSPS, delayed sleepphase syndrome.

[@semaj_5022]

"During epidemics like the *_plegh_* ..." Ahh, Midwesterners. y'all crack me up. But seriously I had missed a couple of these videos so I'm glad you did this compilation. Just in time for spooky season too!

[@1.4142]

There is a scary rare genetic disease called xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) in which the ability to repair DNA damage in the skin is impaired, so sun exposure causes deadly sunburn.

[@BrotherSkodidi]

Surprised y'all didn't bring up Xeroderma Pigmentosa in the segment with solar urticaria, etc.!

[@darkangelprincess101]

I worked with someone at my first job who was allergic to the sun. She always broke out in bad hives

[@isabellabihy8631]

When on a vacation in Florida in 1997 I had about 130 mosquito bites (yes, I did count them), took photographs of them, and went to a pharmacy to get some iodine based disinfectant. It helped. Why the photographs? I didn't want to dwell on the itch, pain, and discomfort, I wanted proof if I would have contracted a mosquito-bite related disease. I was lucky, no disease. Nonetheless, I had a fever for two days. I'm kind of tough, it didn't spoil my vacation. After feeling better, I moved on with my rented RV.

[@borttorbbq2556]

To my knowledge at least typically mosquitoes in America don't carry too many diseases they do carry some but yeah

[@veronicasponchia5838]

Walk your dog in Canada wearing a loose dress. More bites than you can count

[@fahimhasan22]

Hey sci show. I have some questions. 1. What do babies think. 2. Why do so many people believes in ghost. 3. What would happen if you could see the entire electromagnetic spectrum? 4. What would an 4 dimensional universe look like?

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Less thinking. More feeling. Why not? You would have very special eyes. That's actually covered in some places.

[@lestatsgames7426]

My mother-in-law was severely allergic to poison ivy. Her reaction to sunlight was much worse. You don’t think about it much, but cats can also love poison ivy and carry it back to their owners.

[@karunjaal5991]

As someone with solar urticaria, this video hits too close to home 😅 i definitely get a lot of flac for being a "vampire" because of that and because my stomach can't tolerate garlic...

[@Failedprodegy42]

That's why I get bumps that turn into little blisters on my forearms at the beginning of summer!!

[@businesszeus6864]

both my parents and my sister also have this problem! they’re also all redheds

[@Failedprodegy42]

It's weird because I'm African American.

[@VixenSaid]

@@businesszeus6864It is a well known fact that redheads are vampires. I can confirm because my sister is ginger.

[@jannesquivel]

Nowadays we'd have vampires microdosing garlic to get over it

[@tesseract_1982]

The vampires in Terry Pratchett's "Carpe Jugulum" did just that kind of thing, with garlic, exposure to sunlight, and drinking and eating other things than blood. It's a hilarious book. Much recommended. 😊👍

[@Hi_Im_Akward]

Considering mosquitoes carry some nasty things, its best to avoid getting bit. I have a slightly more severe reaction to their bites. I get really nasty welts. I'd love to have a reduced reaction to them. Worst part of summer is the mosquitoes.

[@izzycurer1260]

It's possible to become immune to mosquitoes. I grew up in the midwest, where we had both the big tiger mosquitoes and the smaller, regular kind (not sure exactly which species). A mosquito bite from either of these would give me a pretty normal, small, itchy red bump that lasted about a week. Then, I moved to the east coast. They also had tiger mosquitoes, but they must have been of slightly different stock than the ones I was used to. Their bites would give me giant, golf ball sized lumps that would last for about half an hour. During that time, my throat would swell, and the lump itself would be so intensely itchy I couldn't help but writhe a bit. This only happened to me a handful of times while I lived there, but most episodes involved at least a dozen bites all over my body. We can estimate I was maybe bitten by these 'extra allergic' mosquitoes about 100 times. After that, we moved again, this time to the southern Us, and I have also since been back to my original home state a few times. I am no longer allergic to any mosquitoes in either area. They bite me, and nothing happens. I still avoid them, obviously, because they spread disease, but I think it's interesting that only about 100 bites completely 'cured' me of having a reaction. (Fyi, the best thing for itchy mosquito bumps is cold water. The sooner you can cool down the site after being bitten, the quicker the bump will go away in the long run. Trust me.)

[@judetwee]

as someone who gets baseball-sized hives from mosquito bites (or silver dollar sized if I'm lucky) i think the desensitization regime discussed here would probably just erase me from existence

[@DemureDelight8055]

I appreciate this episode on and deep level. 🎃

[@twocvbloke]

As a Solar Urticaria suffererer, I do indeed spend a lot of time awake at night, cos itchy, blotchy skin sucks, though antihistamines help, so long as my derpy brain remembers to pop one before spending time in the sun... :P

[@ApAcVideoWatcher]

As someone who also used to burn or break out into hives as soon as I got in the sun, even with antihistamines, I can now do so and only sometimes break out into hives. I can even stand in the sun without burning immediately. I'll still turn pink in the Summer in 15 minutes or so, even with sunblock, but nothing like it used to be. I do have to wear sunglasses because "Bright light! Ouch!" I went Carnivore and I take a supplement called "Blood Vitality". It's basically a combo of freezedried bovine blood, liver, and spleen. My sun and temperature tolerance has improved like 1000 fold. I'm no longer anemic. Not to mention other aspects of life. Just sharing because when I started having those issues in my early adult years, it drastically changed my life. Having them decrease to such a degree has been amazing. I'm still taking antihistamines. Though it varies. Some days I don't take any. Other days they really just keep things from getting dangerous, but those days are not the norm. Please don't think I'm trying to push anything, I'd just feel guilty not sharing in case you wished to look into it.🦇

[@Josh-fo5fd]

@Scishow Would like to recommend y'all spend a night camping in the northern midwest sometime in the summer. You'll quickly come to realize 1-2000 bites in a summer means you got off really easy. I can also confirm that you eventually stop reacting to mosquito bites. The only annoyance is the little prick of the bite, and that you only feel once in a while.

[@ConstantChaos1]

Are we forgetting about plant vampires?

[@sussekind9717]

Vegetarian vampires? So, tomatoes and red beats? Wash it down with some sour cherry juice?

[@tomtheplummer7322]

Um Feed me Seymore 🤫🤭🤓🍄

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

@@sussekind9717 No, like vampire gourds - vegetables "infected" with vampirism, giving it to you if you eat them. There also used to be mythology in America about gourds grown on low ground by rivers giving you "fevers" (unspecified debilitating illness with fever as a symptom). It's basically a variation on folk wisdom about when a plant is or is not safe to eat - some of which are reality based and some of which are not. For instance, watermelon grown in low ground by rivers may not give you "fever" but you can get malaria from the mosquitos that lurk in those areas, which may have lead to the association.

[@sussekind9717]

@@EmilySmirleGURPS Cool, I appreciate the info. Vegetarian vampires still sound hilarious, though. Maybe somebody should make a movie...

[@LibertyMonk]

You know, when I used to work as a summer camp counselor, I used to always be covered in huge bumps week 2, but they stopped bothering me by the end of the summer. I assumed I just mentally ignored them, or got used to not scratching. It makes sense that getting a dozen bites per day over the course of 2 months would desensitize the immune response. It happened like every year, so it doesn't seem to last.

[@1959Edsel]

Vampire bats are surprisingly adorable.

[@Emiko0807]

I do wonder why you didn't mention rabies and TB as the possible origin of vampirism. Bats carry rabies so if you get bitten or scratched so they get rabies and showing all vampire sign.

[@laureldugan4065]

Actually, bats do not 'often' carry Rabies. Don't sully what you clearly have not researched. 🦇🖤

[@Emiko0807]

@@laureldugan4065 May I have any sources for bats not being a carrier of rabies? If you attack people, you should show proof to be taken seriously.

[@lrmackmcbride7498]

​@@laureldugan4065 the key word is carrier. Bats can be carriers, other animals just die. And in a bat colony it spreads quickly.

[@icarusbinns3156]

@@laureldugan4065 I’d say 10% of an animal population counts as ‘often’. Bats are definitely more likely to carry rabies without symptoms than, say, skunks. Or raccoons. Or coyotes. Or a neighborhood dog. But! Bats are also less likely to bite people. We’re just too big and loud and stinky yo them. But not the fruit bat that decided she was done being in the spotlight of a Learn About Bats show. She climbed up my chest and shoved her head under my shirt, and went to sleep. Drew an “Awww” from the crowd. And a little squeal from me when she started snoring. Ever heard a snoring bat??

[@lumpsmagoo1570]

No way this video comes out as I started to rewatch the show!

[@FloozieOne]

I hope that poor 26 year old man got well paid for his participation in the study. Perhaps the reason they only had one subject was that no one else was willing to do it!

[@kurtsnyder4752]

There's another condition that makes hair come in really much all over the body, which led to the werewolf thing.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

@MLGTrueIncarnate And porphyria sufferers.

[@ConstantChaos1]

Despite how it looks I am not a vampire that being said I am so fair that I sunburn in as little as 2 min.... and I'm a severe insomniac..... and I have/had extremely overgrown canine teeth (which were ground down without consent by my orhtodontist).... and I am anemic... and love the taste of blood..... I swear it's a coincidence Edit: I forgot, while I love garlic I can't eat it too late in the day otherwise I vomit

[@alteria2714]

"Im not a vampire it's a coincidence" Sounds alot like a vampire.

[@LordOfElysium]

My mother is literally allergic to the sun, it’s taken many cream and meds to limit the affect-

[@Jaygandr]

I got Lyme Disease or a Very similar tickborne illness. After taking my dog for a hike, I noticed hours after coming home a small tiny tick attached to my leg I happened to scratch off my leg. A month (or longer) later I got violently ill and ran a fever of 107°f feeling tunnel vision and still landscaping for a day. After an emergency room visit and almost being sent home with no diagnosis I happened to remember the tick and was immediately sent home with the doxycycline they gave me to treat it and it burned my stomach like fire.

[@liliaaaaaaaa]

I'm surprised you didn't mention how prevalent actual blood drinking and cannibalism actually is throughout human history, let alone how there are people who are getting blood transfusions to prolong their life to this day. If you look at the Scythians for example in history, cannibalism of those that died was normal, drinking blood and eating those that they killed also, pretty standard... just history seems to have conveniently forgot..

[@TG.Rohrbacher]

Michaels hair dye makes it look like he has the ol’ Friar Tuck cut

[@rpancake5943]

I had bees sting my legs like 5 times over few years and every time it got less painful Is it possible that pool chemicals make the skin irritation phase a lot shorter ? Or if your not alergic to bees you just get used to the pain?

[@keirablack3051]

Erithropoietic porphyria is another sort of 'vampire'-looking condition. In that one there's severe sunlight sensitivity and reddish bodily fluids due to a congenital issue which leads to an accumulation of protoporphyrins in their blood and bodily fluids. It can also cause liver problems and sometimes due to frequent infections, deformities result. It's a sad condition, although advances in medicine have lead to various promising treatments, including recent successes with gene therapy.

[@Datharass]

The vampire is the hideousness of the nobility at it's base. There is your overlap.

[@Aliandrin]

The example I know of allergic desensitisation comes from being a cat breeder. The breed I work with is hypoallergenic, but they are not hairless and have some of the offending protein. One of my customers got an Oriental Shorthair and was very allergic to it as first, but stuck it out. She became less allergic to cats and is now able to have a normal cat also. She is however not 100% desensitised and cats with a lot of the protein still cause her to react. I guess it's harder to do this with mosquitos because we don't keep colonies of them as pets. So no constant exposure.

[@qdaniele97]

You forgot to mention that porphyrin builds-up in the lacrimal glands too, so blood-red tears

[@speakingwithoutnet]

I live in Northern Ontario, lots of mosquitoes, not many mosquito borne diseases. I hate bug spray so seldom use it. In my teens I stopped being allergic to mosquitos. Its great.

[@gerrimilner9448]

im ginger, i do not go out in the summer days if i can possibly avoid it; when i do go out i cover up as much as possible, sometimes i used to wear gloves and use as high a factor as i can find, exposed skin burns after 10mins still getting severe after 20, either way my skin itches, like it is being crawled all over, for around two weeks after exposure. i am good at shade hopping. i have very pale skin, which with the zinc looks a bit of an un-nateral white (i wear a factor 40 spf moisterizer all year round) Oh! my spouse died young, so ive worn lots of black for years- though not so much this summer

[@rhondahuggins9542]

In my childhood....really up into my 30's...tick bites (Arkansas Ozarks) and mosquito bites (South AR, MS, and a few Maine summers) always bombarded my pale self to the point of frantic itchiness!! No prevention method worked! In my 40's, I was diagnosed with an inflammatory arthritis and began a chemotherapy....I have rarely had a bite since! And I seem to have developed a Spidey-sense to mosquitoes landing on me. I know live in Arkansas's mosquito zone, so if anyone was watching, I would appear to be doing a very bad rendition of Popping & Locking while swatting away those blood-suckers!!❤

[@sriramramesh5318]

hey, I have a sunlight allergy! For me, antihistamines don't really seem to help at all, but somehow taking medium to high doses of calcium and vitamin b3 before sun exposure helps.

[@roseburleson9902]

Bruhhh..... that's kinda like my sle lupus. I am iron deficient and anemic and I get blisters and rashes in the sun and the more I'm outside the more fatigue I get and the more pain I'm in.. also I have always been drawn to the vampire lore for some reason it just seems like it could maybe exist.

[@mikevides4494]

So fun fact: the "myth" about vampires burning in or fearing sunlight comes from the 1922 silent film: Nosferatu. Prior to that, vampires did not fear the sun in either folklore or literature (go read Dracula... or Carmilla, or The Vampyre, or Varney the Vampire - they all walk in daylight without harm). So it's unlikely that porphyria's light-sensitivity aspect informed the vampire myth - and the theory about the disease has come under intense criticism for several years (either for misrepresenting the illness to better match vampire lore, or vice versa, making assumptions about vampire lore that confirm the bias - such as connecting porphyria to sun aversion)

[@borttorbbq2556]

I will say this as a homeless person towards the end of summer I do notice that the intensity of the itch usually decreases which now I have an itchy palm and back because I mentioned it

[@borttorbbq2556]

Psycho reactive or whatever the term is for it literally it's just a random itch for no parent reason

[@j.d.4697]

I have kind of become immune to the itching of mosquito bites. My body learned to tune them out so I only start feeling an itch when I continuously rube the bite. I think it's highly psychosomatic.

[@ShonjiPowerOf2]

I never knew that rashes due to intense UV was rare! My dad is most sensitive but in high elevations in Summer I get them mostly on my arms or when I drove down the Al-Can my driver's side arm freaked out amd I had to put a cloth over arm 😅

[@uplink-on-yt]

Science. Taking all the mystery out of the world. Yet some people are allergic to it, and we can't do much about it.

[@Bethlam]

18:27 I know the medical field would probably not recommend this method but the premise sound and does work for me. If you have a large mosquito bite try squeezing it. You should get a clear, sticky fluid that first comes out. After getting most of it out then cover the bump with antibacterial cream and a bandage. The cream is to keep the opening clean until it heals a bit. The itching should disappear within 15 minutes after doing this. I have a very high histamine reach to mosquitos so I rip my skin apart when this happens leaving me with huge open sores. Since I’ve started squeezing the gel out I have a pin hole opening which I keep covered for a day or two and it’s all healed by them.

[@FloatingSpark]

I would suspect the stuff being squeezed out is mostly the liquid that exists in our cells, a clearish sticky liquid comes out of any small skin damaged spot when squeezed, however it also seems likely that it would bring along with it a bunch of the irritants that cause the itching, which I think mosquitos inject so that their prey doesn't feel them biting initially.

[@Bethlam]

@@FloatingSpark mosquitoes inject an anticoagulant into the skin right before they begin drinking and that’s what usually causes the irritation. If they didn’t our blood would begin to clot as soon as they puncture the skin and they wouldn’t be able to drink the blood. If you get the anticoagulant out the irritation goes away.

[@AnnoyingNewslettersPage6]

Fleas and mosquitoes love my blood, but ticks rarely ever get on me, and none have latched on.

[@emilydavis162]

There is no way you’re ALL allergic to the sun, ominously pale, with pronounced canine teeth commenting on this comp.

[@unpunlievable]

Oh hey, I've got that milder sun allergy. I didn't know all that about the condition

[@Howler196]

i used to react to mosquito bites,but now i do the same as before, and i know there are mosquitos in my room because i leave the window at night and now i don't have reactions anymore, maybe thats what happened?

[@samuela-aegisdottir]

I used to have reactions on mosquito bites, but I don't have any more. I am probably desenstiized. There are not so many moquitos in our country as it used to be, probably due to several years of drought and intensive use of pesticides. I don't miss the terrible noise they make, but I think those animals who eat mosquitos must be very hungry now. I don't encouter mosquitos so often any more, but even when I do, I don't have any bumps. I am happy there is a scientific explanation for that, I am just so sorry for the poor rabbit.

[@glenndiddy]

mosquito bites no longer bother me. It itches for 10-15 minutes after I find out i have them and then I'm just good. The welts are gone within a day or even a nights sleep as well. Same goes for nettles. I get an itch for a bit then its just gone

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@globurim]

Now I'm interested about the many possible interesting myths we would have if the history had experienced a different disease compared to what happened.

[@teaonvenus8814]

lmfao the PMLE shoutout is so rare but appreciate it so much hahaha.

[@jackiechild9740]

I got Ross River from a mosquito bite and had symptoms for over 5 years!! It sucked big time! ☹️

[@thijsvankessel7459]

their is a tribe called the Masaai that lives in Kenya and northern Tanzania that are actually real life vampires. They live on a mixture of cow's milk with cow's blood with the occasional piece of meat on the side.

[@moonstonepearl21]

That guy in the mosquitoes study better have gotten ship loads of money for that.

[@stephenmadl5609]

It takes me about two weeks from only a couple hundred bites before I stop showing an allergic reaction to a new species of mosquito or flea. I guess I'm lucky there, but I prefer to just eat a lot of onion and garlic so they don't bite me in the first place.

[@Nick-qy3hu]

Mosquitoes are interesting. I grew up in the bush and I'm a lot more tolerant than most of my friend who grew up in the city. However even though I do get bitten and still feel the bites, out of my friends that also grew up in the bush for some reason I'm one of the least liked by mosquitoes. Some of my friends seem very tasty to them though. Mosquitoes are odd...

[@dannyobrian5957]

I knew a woman who gave her dog a cat wormer and the poor dog died I never knew that could happen always be aware of individual animal's needs

[@awethomical]

Im a sam stan now so thanks for the title!

[@mannywilliams1234]

My theory is that vampire say there allergic and a weakness to them but really there tricking us into seasonsing ourselves for a tasty treat

[@stevenwild39]

Thankyou for the interesting information. May I come in?

[@1kili2]

im a dutch person living in spain for roughly 16 years now, this summer i had to spent a couple months back in the netherlands and noticed that im way less affected by mosquito bites there than i am over in spain, like they will itch a little bit for maybe 10-20 minutes instead of potentially still itching after a day or two, however this never used to be the case when i lived in the netherlands, is there any explanation for this?

[@dawsie]

When my skin gets to a certain temp , I brake out in hives every time, if I sit out in the sun too long my skin started over heating, my skin then brakes out in hives🙄🙄, now living in Australian Outback where it gets blooming hot a lot can suck during summer time(pun intended), funny thing is it only started to get worse in the past few years as I get older. When you young it’s fine it’s easy to live with but as you get older it gets old fast. 😹😹at least I now know why it’s happening, it’s was never something I told the Drs about either never gave it a second thought, I knew that by morning it would be gone and the day would start all over again unless the temp stayed low that day. 😹😹ah that’s why I have trouble with misquotes bits, when we first moved to Australia a simple bit left me with bite marks as big as 8 inches, every night my room had to be sprayed and all gaps sealed up just to get through the night. I got tired of that very fast, so now I bury myself under my bedding at night and hope for the best, the one thing that does help is at least when there is a male buzzing around I know now there is a female very close by, so I have a spray can next to my chair and bed so I can give a quick spray around😹😹 See does not matter how old one gets we all learn something new each day😹😹😹

[@MrFmiller]

You mean vampire collars don’t work?

(For the average person) Just don't scratch mosquito bites for the first 20min and it will stop itching.

[@ralts6464]

“Doctor im allergic to something.” “What is it that you are allergic” “Mosquito bites”

[@rusnikfromtranscarpathia]

I'm fairly immune to Mosquis because of my blood and diet. I am AB-, and Mosquis don't like this type. As for dirt, I eat a lot of pickled/vinegary foods becos I'm Eastern European...so Mosqies don't like vinegars either! Lol

[@rusnikfromtranscarpathia]

@@michaelmurdock4607 eat them outside n in moderation, so not to stinky the inside for ur wife. Lol offer her some wen u go camping near the lake next summer, so not to be eaten alive! ! Lol

[@CrissyLee88]

I have this allergy. I get big red blotches that can be so dark they look purple. The doctors said I'm allergic to the sun.

[@conlon4332]

0:39 I think the word is vampiric.

[@melodyszadkowski5256]

Got my PI calender!

[@Best_Blake]

Mosquitos don't bite me nearly as much as other people. I have no idea why. Am I just not tasty enough for them???

[@loke6664]

Hmm, mosquito bites have been far less annoying for me the last few years, I wonder if that might be because of anti-histamine? I have been taking allergy medication the last few summers. I don't think it is because I gotten close to immune, I don't get that many bites (I hardly even seen any mosquitoes this year for some reason, maybe because May and June was so dry).

[@steveandthedogs]

Ah, you can't beat a good Bury black pudding.

[@thesatelliteslickers907]

clicking on this video: will this explain my inexplicable craving for blood?

[@shorunqualtec2070]

I got hives to, but it's because of the zerg.

[@mdansbyjr]

16:33: I would LOVE to know if this effect is a potential cause of ED in those who have a problem with it! #GovtGrantCash