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Tea Tree Oil for Insect Bites

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Zark (Emerald City) on 09/26/2022:
5 out of 5 stars

Tea tree oil worked perfectly for a leech bite.

I had been bitten on the hand whilst gardening and the bite was still intensely itchy and inflamed after a week. The heat cure didn't work as I tried this first. Next day or so I tried tea tree oil and that provided permanent relief to the itch to the area it was applied. Later the periphery where I hadn't applied tea tree oil still itched, so I applied the oil more broadly this time and then no more itch at all. The next day the badly inflamed bite area had calmed down very noticeably.

Marsh57 (CO) on 06/09/2020:
5 out of 5 stars

Went to a new acupuncture office yesterday. By the time I got into the car my legs were madly itching. A little research discovered they were flea bites - ugh. Coconut oil and tea tree oil stops the itch.

Mama To Many (Tn) on 06/25/2018:
5 out of 5 stars

My family got into some tall grass a week ago. In the middle of the night, I woke up itching and learned that many in my family did. We each had multiple bites that were red, itchy and swollen. We finally realized it was chiggers. I tried many different remedies. My favorite turned out to be tea tree oil.

I put a drop of tea tree oil onto a pea-sized amount of plantain salve (which helped by itself, but not as much as with tea tree oil! ) and put this on bites 2-3 times a day. I think coconut oil with tea tree oil would work just about as well.

~Mama to Many~

Scorpio1 (Hollywood, Ca) on 03/18/2015:
5 out of 5 stars

California doesn't have many mosquitos, but when they find you, and you haven't had 1 for years, it's murder! I recently became the meal of mosquitos at a friends house in the hills and suffered a day before I found this and tried it. I just dabbed some tea tree oil on a q tip and applied. Ahhh relief

Lisa (Coto De Caza, Ca) on 10/12/2009:
5 out of 5 stars

My daughter woke up one morning with a few bug bits (most likely spider bites) that itched and were swollen. We put a little tea tree oil on it and the itching stopped very quickly. The next day the bites were completely gone. A few days later I had a bug bite that itched like crazy, so I tried the tea tree oil on it and it worked great.

Kathleen (Brisbane, Australia) on 01/03/2009:
5 out of 5 stars

Living in Australia, tea tree is readily available at supermarkets etc, and is great for taking away the itch from flea, mosquito, midgee bites (and lots more). It works by 1. taking away the itch - anaesthetic; 2. healing the infected area (antiseptic), and repels the other bugs hat might come near you.

I dip a cotton bud into the oil (100%, or even the dilluted version) and rub it onto the bite, sometimes I reapply it, and before you know it - its gone!

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