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I have red marks with mosquito bites, but my friend has no misquote bites? Is this just my imagination?
If you also have this question then this is not an imagination. Mosquito do love some people more. Mosquito expert of University of Florida Dr. Johnathan Day sad, ‘Skin of some people secret special chemicals like lactic acid which tends to attract mosquito. It has also been proved that people with blood group O are bitten more compared to A and B. ‘
But unfortunately your blood group and skin secretion is hereditary. These genes determine many other things about you, which makes you more loves by mosquito. Maybe the most important factor is your metabolism rate, in other words rate of carbon dioxide produced by body to produce energy.
Yes, how much your body produces carbon dioxide also shows how much you are bitten by a mosquito. Carbon dioxide is the first way for mosquito to find it’s prey. Dr. Day says, ‘Vertebrates exhale carbon dioxide. And what might be the better medium for mosquito.’ You can actually control your metabolism rate through exercise and food but Dr. Day says that it is not that beneficial for mosquito.
Fat people and pregnant women have high metabolism rate so they get bitten more by mosquito. Similarly drinking alcohol and heavy exercise results in excess release of carbon dioxide, not only that mosquito also start to get more attracted towards you.
Carbon dioxide is the main medium for mosquito and other parasites to find their prey and they also detect a prey by finding animals which excrete carbon dioxide. Dr Day says, ‘This is the secondary method which can be controlled by ourselves.’
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