How did North American Indians deal with mosquitos? Are they immune to them?
With enough frequent contact, it is generally quite easy to become immune to the unpleasant effect of mosquito bites (despite what previous people here have said) What makes these bites so annoying is the inflammation and itching that occurs shortly afterwards. This is an immuno-response from your body due to certain chemicals and proteins that mosquitos inject you with when they bite, which stimulates the release of histamine stored in your cells — histamine causes the itching and such, and is *technically* an allergic reaction. So….. with regular, repeated, and somewhat heavy exposure to the chemo-saliva of mosquitos…and a small bit of luck… Bites will eventually no longer coax this histamine response from your body. Hence…. No red bumps – No itching – No nada! This is the same concept as immunization shots we all receive as small children; which are essentially traces of a pathogen intentionally injected into the body to compel our immune system to produce it’s own means o
