Mosquito Repellents
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
If you are heading somewhere tropical this summer, or just want to protect yourself from bites in your own back garden, then which mosquito repellents can you trust?
Greg Foot gets up close and personal with a box full of hungry mosquitoes to find out.
Is it all about DEET or are there alternatives which are just as effective? What about citronella? And how well do bracelets, patches and candles perform?
And if you do get bitten, what is the best treatment for a mosquito bite?
Greg assesses the scientific evidence with Professor James Logan from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Dr Jane Wilcock, an indepedent researcher and GP.
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PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Jon Douglas
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder. |
| 0:22.6 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires. Live, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.4 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates your suggested wonder products. |
| 0:46.0 | This is the final episode of the current batch of sliced bread. |
| 0:49.4 | We're taking a little summer break, but I'll be back to run a whole load more promising |
| 0:53.3 | sounding products |
| 0:54.1 | through the evidence mill in September. And if you are off on holiday this summer, this week's |
| 0:59.3 | topic could be very helpful. To introduce it, here's Yasmin Alhamdani in London. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi Greg. I just got back from a family trip to Zambia and we sometimes visit regions |
| 1:10.4 | where malaria is a problem. |
| 1:12.6 | We try our best to avoid mosquito bites and I've noticed lots of different mosquito repellent options. |
| 1:17.6 | So I've been wondering which ones actually work. |
| 1:21.6 | I also want to know how safe deed actually is and whether the deed-free alternatives out there are any good. I see there's |
| 1:29.9 | armbands and bracelet-type things, patches, and I also keep hearing about citronella as a natural |
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