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Insect bites: Appearance, Complications, Prevention, Inflammation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Insect bites<\/strong><\/span><\/a> you get mainly in the summer half of the year (Source<\/a>). They are usually only unpleasant but can be life-threatening for people with an allergy to insect venom (Source)<\/a>. What happens in the body? What causes the swelling at the injection site? Why do mosquito bites itch? And what is the best way to treat insect bites? You can find answers to these and other questions here!<\/p>\n

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ICD codes for this disease: T63<\/span><\/p>\n

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Description <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Insect bites occur mainly in the summer segment of the year when people spend a lot of time outside and it is warm enough for the insects (Source<\/a>). However, you can also get itchy mosquito bites in the winter, when the weather is very mild so that mosquitoes hatch out of their eggs (Source<\/a>). By the way, mosquitoes usually prefer twilight or the night, while many other insects such as wasps and bees are mainly active during the day (Source<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Insect bites: Importance for medicine<\/h3>\n

In medicine, insect bites are important because they can transmit diseases or toxins and trigger<\/a> allergic reactions. In most western countries, however, insect bites do not usually transmit diseases. Exceptions we found, are Paraguay, southern Brazil, and northern Argentina with the dengue disease in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

Wasp stings, bee stings, and hornet stings can be very dangerous and even fatal in the case of an insect poison allergy or a sting in the mouth and throat. Mosquito bites and horsefly bites, on the other hand, are considered harmless, even if annoying.<\/p>\n

The transmission of disease through insect bites is primarily due to mosquitoes worldwide. There are different types of mosquitoes in which different pathogens survive. In the tropics, for example, these include the pathogens of malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever. In addition, bites of the tsetse fly or sand fly can cause sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis in the tropics.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Symptoms Of <\/strong>Insect Bites<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Wasp stings, bee bites, and hornet bites often cause pain<\/a>, while mosquito bites are itchy. In general, three stages of an insect bite reaction can be distinguished:<\/p>\n