Mozzie bite?

[kiethton]

Came up yesterday with a slightly painful but itchy area just under my left armpit.

Started itching again this evening and I found the below. Does it look like a bite?

Hot to touch, a lid of different raise pimples and both itchy and painful. Had some antihistamine but doesn't seem to be doing much with the red area growing 50% over the last hour or so...what is it?

[condor]

looks like a bug bite' of some sort' to me
A Basil leaf is supposed to give some relief if you don't have normal anti-bite relief

[Peanut Gallery]

kiethton said:

Hot to touch, a lid of different raise pimples and both itchy and painful.

I would say not mozzie, I have camped in the Zambezi valley - mozzie central.

Mozzie bites can be mega itchy, but with a single central pimple. Sometimes making an X in the middle of it helped a bit. Not hot, and did not last long.

(Now I am in Scotland, and react far worse the the midge...)

[Stickyfinger]

Looks more like a reaction to a bed bug bite to me.....

[Saleen836]

Stickyfinger said:

Looks more like a reaction to a bed bug bite to me.....

I thought the same..
http://www.healthline.com/health-slideshow/bed-bug...

[GCH]

Bed bug, spider, or tick.

[kiethton]

Ah st...

Hate the thought of bedbugs!

Sheets and bedding changed weekly, literally...not happened before now.

Hoping that it'll just go down a little more - still a little hot to touch and as was last night :/

[Topbuzz]

Looks exactly like the mosquito bites I had while in Vietnam.

[Peanut Gallery]

Only one bite?

(I had similar sort of patches when I changed washing machine powder)

[kiethton]

Yeah just the one bite.

Am erring toward it being a mozzie - I am generally quite allergic to them

Seems to have gone down a little now, less hot but still have a big old red/purple blotch on my upper arm

[grumpy52]

Been near the coast ?
I had similar a few years ago , turned out to be sandfly .
Went away as quick as it appeared but was a bit itchy then swollen and painful for 24hrs , one of the ladies at work gave me some alternative medicine type salve that seemed to do the job .

[kiethton]

I hadn't no, I did however use some cream my GF got a while ago for sandflies in Thailand and it seemed to go down a few days later, leaving a mighty bruise. Seems ok now though

[carinatauk]

Horsefly?

[Sheets Tabuer]

swerni said:

Topbuzz said:

Looks exactly like the mosquito bites I had while in Vietnam.

st,
Vietnam

You don't know man, you weren't there.

[Pica-Pica]

Go to a pharmacy and ask for the pharmacist. There seems no centre contact point, so; nettle sting? We get theminsect bites here (North Wales), I spray on 'Jungle Formula Insect bite relief', it does some good.