Insect Protection

Insect Protection - 5th May 2009 - 5:01pm

Trip - AYK - KENYA & TANZANIA ADVENTURE, Departure Date - Sunday 28th June 2009

Hi, I'm travelling to Kenya and Tanzania in June and I'm looking for some advice from Exodus staff or from experienced travellers. I tend to get badly bitten by insects so I'm looking for as much good advice as possible on how to prevent this on my trip. I beleive that mosquito nets are provided on the trip but I was hoping someone from Exodus could give me more information on this. Also, any help, tips and advice on clothing, sprays etc. would be very welcome from anyone as I don't want nasty insect bites to detract from my trip!

Thanks a lot

Gayle

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jdushe

Insect Repellent - 6th May 2009 - 11:45am

I use Bug-Geroff spray. They also make a wrist-band and soap. It is made in South Africa with all natural ingredients. DEET is an effective repellent but it is bad for the environment and destroys plastics and synthetic clothing. You can buy Bug-Geroff here:

http://www.salveo.co.uk/health/bug_geroff.asp?OVRAW=OFF%20%20mosquito%20spray&OVKEY=mosquito%20spray&OVMTC=advanced&OVADID=2650390031&OVKWID=21365008531

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GayleB

Thanks for the advice. - 7th May 2009 - 4:04pm

Thanks for the advice. That's very helpful. Do you think the wrist and ankle bands are worth buying, or just a gimmic?

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jdushe

Advice - 7th May 2009 - 5:01pm

I think you would probably be OK with just the spray but Salveo don't sell it separately it seems. Lifesystems also do an all natural repellent.

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jdushe

Advice - 7th May 2009 - 5:09pm

I forgot to mention about clothing, wear long trousers and long sleeve shirts. Rohan and Craghoppers do clothing with an insect repellent treatment, which stops them landing on you.

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GayleB

Thanks for all your advnice! - 17th May 2009 - 3:11pm

Thanks for all your advnice! Really appreciate it

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AVRIL

insect protection - 2nd Jun 2009 - 7:11pm

as well as all the sprays and stuff if you take Benerva tablets ( ask in a pharmacy) these are single vitamin B not multivits... they help with not getting bitten>>> inspects dont like the taste of you.... 25-50mg daily. As far as I know there are no side effects.. although they are used to help alcoholics get the mst out of thier food!! So it will be you and the alcohoicis taking them!!

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devaneyf

Thanks for all the great - 18th Jun 2009 - 6:08pm

Thanks for all the great advice passed on to Gayle. I found it very useful as I don't really like using Deet and have now received my delivery of Bug Geroff.

Francesca

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