It has to have DEET in to be effective, have you got the DEET plug ins in your appartment too? To catch the blighters that manage to slip past the door? Garlic and Vitamin B supplements are supposed to help but not too sure how efficient they are. Once you've been bitten stick a poultice on them to draw the beastie saliva out. Animalintex poultices are fantastic for this job but if you're over in the SUN ::::glares::: try soaking bread in cool boiled water and bandaging that down, probably best to do that overnight or you will just get weird looks! Magnesium sulphate works but not as well as a poultice. Try finding another beastie magnet in the hope they haven't got so much repellent on and feast on them instead.
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