Why do mosquito bites itch instead of hurt?!


Question: Why do mosquito bites itch instead of hurt.?
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misquito bites occur this way;
-the misquito will land on you.
-the misquito will emit saliva on your skin
-the misquito penetrates skin and then sucks blood.
THE REASON it itches is because of the composition of the misquito's saliva.
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When a mosquito bites you, she injects her own saliva, because it contains anticoagulants which will keep your blood flowing instead of clotting. Unfortunately, along with those anticoagulants she also unavoidably injects some of her own body's proteins, and these happen to produce an allergic effect in us. A class of chemicals called histamines binds to these foreign proteins, which provokes an inflammatory and itchy response in the cells roundabout, until our own body's immune system can break up the proteins and clear them away.Health Question & Answer

When the mosquito bites her victim, she injects her saliva which is filled with digestive enzymes and anticoagulants. also, when biting the victim, some of the mosquito's own proteins enter under the skin causing a small allergic reaction to take place while our immune systems try to rid us of the foreign proteins.Health Question & Answer

Mosquitos will inject a substance that inhibits blood clotting into your skin before they start sucking. This ensures a free-flowing meal. Unfortunately, it triggers the histamine/inflammatory response, that causes itching and swelling. By the way, here's a neat trick. If you see a mosquito on your arm, tie off your arm (much like a junkie would do), then pump the arm muscles. The mosquito will explode.Health Question & Answer

because their saliva has some sort of poison in it, i forgot what it's called and it makes the skin irritated. Some people are allergic to mosquito saliva and when they get bitten by a mosquito they swell and when people scratch, it bleeds and scars... It sucks! It happens to my daughter during the summer.Health Question & Answer

Yeah that is weird. I get them on my leg in the summer time and I itch until it turns into a cut.
First they itch until they turn into cuts. Maybe it;'s the stuff the put inside of you that makes it itch. Health Question & Answer

it releases a acid into to ur skin to make the skin a thin layer and since it is a thin layer it doesn't hurt if it goes in fast
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the allergic reaction to hystamineHealth Question & Answer

it is something the mosquito releases to better drink your blood and i heard that it is only female mosquitos that get youHealth Question & Answer

The mosquitoes insert a small amount of weak poison into your skin when they bite. Then your skin has a kind of a toxic reaction.Health Question & Answer

Because they kind of inject a sort of substance that will not make you feel anything around that area. I think that is the reason.Health Question & Answer

They itch because when they bite, their saliva will enter your body.Health Question & Answer

Histamines! Fun things!Health Question & Answer

Because your body is having an allergic reaction to biteHealth Question & Answer

because they r sucking ur blood and glucose so ur hand performs a zit on ur hand so it itches.Health Question & Answer

thie needle is so samll in your arm you hardly notice it for awhile>>>only females biteHealth Question & Answer

they release an enzyme that starts to eat away at our skin causing an itch.Health Question & Answer

Your skin is irritated by the bite, hence it itchesHealth Question & Answer

Saliva the bug mixes in.Health Question & Answer

isn't that the same thing though. (they itch because they hurt). Health Question & Answer

its not odd...it makes perfect sense!
ur skin gets irrated duh!Health Question & Answer

because ur body saying there somthing in it and it tells u to scrach it off Health Question & Answer

it is odd...Health Question & Answer



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