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When someone is bitten by mosquito, the affected place swells up and starts itching but most time the person does not understand the reason behind the swell and the itching around the affected area.

NOTE: Mosquitoes (male & female) feed on nectar. Only the female mosquito feed on blood for protein for her egg production.

Now the real reason for that is because while the mosquito draws blood with its proboscis, it also injects its own saliva, which contains an anticoagulant that prevents the blood from clotting around the proboscis after which the body sees the saliva as a foreign substance and thereafter create histamines (an organic nitrogenous compound involved
in local immune responses) which make the blood vessels around the affected area to enlarge and create an itchy wheal or itchy bump.

Culled:[url]ihealthng..com/2016/06/why-do-mosquito-bites-itch-ihealthng.html[/url]

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Die Die u tiny blood suckin demons!

uhiochris1:
When someone is bitten by mosquito, the affected place swells up and starts itching but most time the person does not understand the reason behind the swell and the itching around the affected area.

NOTE: Mosquitoes (male & female) feed on nectar. Only the female mosquito feed on blood for protein for her egg production.

Now the real reason for that is because while the mosquito draws blood with its proboscis, it also injects its own saliva, which contains an anticoagulant that prevents the blood from clotting around the proboscis after which the body sees the saliva as a foreign substance and thereafter create histamines (an organic nitrogenous compound involved
in local immune responses) which make the blood vessels around the affected area to enlarge and create an itchy wheal or itchy bump.

Culled:[url]ihealthng..com/2016/06/why-do-mosquito-bites-itch-ihealthng.html[/url]

Also attraction of macrophages and Ig E (allergens) to the site of puncture leads to inflammation to the site thereby creating a pruiritic lesion (itch) so as a response to that one just end up itching

nelszx:
Also attraction of macrophages and Ig E (allergens) to the site of puncture leads to inflammation to the site thereby creating a pruiritic lesion (itch) so as a response to that one just end up itching

Thanks for contributing..... I just learnt something new.

uhiochris1:
Thanks for contributing..... I just learnt something new.

Everyday is a learning process......That's basically the first pathophysiology of malaria (pruiritis)

nelszx:
Everyday is a learning process......That's basically the first pathophysiology of malaria (pruiritis)

Thanks.... Noted