urgh...

[unixronin]

I suspect I've gotten bitten enough by the local mosquitoes to become sensitized to them.  I got bitten on my right thigh two days ago; now I have a red swelling there almost three inches across that I'm having to use xylocaine jelly on to control the itching, and I feel like hell.  (Last night it was two inches.)

What the hell beneficial purpose do mosquitoes serve, anyway, other than food for their predators?

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[meglimir.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, I've not been bit yet this year, even though I'm eating a lot of carbs (i.e. not on the edge of ketosis, which the bugs seem to hate). Either all the B vitamins are doing it ... or this is one of the few nice side effects of chemo!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should double up my B-complex ... I've already doubled up my calcium-magnesium because I've been having a fair few chest pains lately.
(Before you ask, no, no other cardiac symptoms, and I have a history of non-cardiac chest-wall pain which magnesium supplements seem to control.)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Making a few animals sick enough that other predators can bring them down?

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

They're pretty useful from the point of view of various bacteria and virii. Just not from the point of view of the human virus :)