Tip - Will B Vitamins Keep Mosquitoes From Biting? - The People's Pharmacy

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Q. Years ago my father heard that large doses of B vitamins (sorry, I don’t remember which ones) would repel mosquitoes. Apparently it changed the smell of his skin because my mother commented that he smelled so bad that she wouldn’t bite him either! A. Taking large doses of vitamin B1 (thiamin) has long been …

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