summer means outdoor BBQs,sunsets,fireworks...and mosquitos ugh!The season is meant to be spent outside,but how annoying are these mosqutios.
suddenly realizing that you have 10 red ,puffy,itchy,bumps on your legs is the actual WOAT. Unforunately,mosquitos are kind of unavoidable during the summer.
so how can you make sure that your bites go away as far as possible?
Don't itchy them?you're kidding,right?Nope...if you can advoid your mosquito bites,they will be less itchy in the long run,and go away faster!why?Well basically,
once a mosquito bites you,it leaves behind its saliva which your body recognizes as a foreign substance.So, in response,your body's immune system produces antibodies
to fight invader,which results in the realease of histamine(the compound that makes things itch and swell).when you start itching a mosqutio bite, you give your immune system
anther wake-up call,and more antibodies and histamine are released,aka,more swelling,itching,and redness.
so next time you've been bitten by the bug, try holding off as long as you can to scratch.you'll be thanking us later
firework ['faiəwə:k] 煙火，激烈爭論
mosquito [məs'ki:təu] 蚊子
puffy ['pʌfi] 肥大的
itchy ['itʃi] 癢的
bump [bʌmp] 腫塊
saliva [sə'laivə] 唾液
immune [i'mju:n] 免疫
antibodies ['æntibɔdis] 抗體
invader[in'veidə] 侵略者
histamine ['histəmi:n] 組胺
compound [kɔm'paund] 符合，混合
swell [swel] 增大，膨脹
aka
=also known as 亦稱爲,又叫做
hold off 拖延,推遲
scratch [skrætʃ] 搔,抓