Mosquito nets

Keshava · Oct 25th, 2009, 20:08

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Originally Posted by camelgirl

Don't you love google

I suppose not knowing is always an option.....let me put my hand in that fan Ooops, didn't know it would cut it off my fingers

OR I can actually know and bring alot of mosquito repellant!

Infectious Disease Information
Mosquito-Borne Diseases(partial list)

Arboviral Encephalitides
Mosquito-transmitted viral diseases causing brain inflammation/encephalitis. Includes information on the diseases and their mosquito vector species

Eastern equine encephalitis
Japanese encephalitis
La Crosse encephalitis
St. Louis encephalitis
West Nile virus
Western equine encephalitis
Dengue Fever

Malaria

Elephantiasis is also called FILARIASIS

Rift Valley

About those bednets for travel: check out this website www.longroad.com They do ship to Canada.

Don't be obtuse and snarky. Didn't mean it's better not to use a spray; rather it's better not to be constantly harried by anxiety over extra details when - in the end - it will get you if it's going to. There are always going to be those unguarded moments. The only 100% effective prophalactic against all these diseases - is to not go to India.

palerider · Oct 30th, 2009, 13:09

I tried my best to use a mosquito net in Puri, a mosquito infested area. It made the fan not work, so as well as feeling like I'd been put under a funeral shroud, I had to try and sleep with no breeze in an appallingly hot room.
After the first night of trying to accept this horror, I figured I'd try without it.
NO MOSQUITO can fly through the breeze of a fan , so I never got bitten except in the street, and slept with the gentle breeze of the fan, and no shroud. Mosquito nets were used before fans were invented. There will always be people who insist they work, but you have to sacrifice the fan to use them, not a good swap, IMHO.
You could, perhaps, smear mud all over your body, but the hotel people get really snippy when they have to clean the sheets.

Nick-H · Oct 30th, 2009, 16:22

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NO MOSQUITO can fly through the breeze of a fan , so I never got bitten except in the street, and slept with the gentle breeze of the fan

Maybe not, if fan is on full blast (then how will you sleep?) but any gentle setting is no deterrent to a hungry mossie. I've seen them sitting in the draft from AC or fan.

One has to decide between net and fan only if one has a fan that hsa to be hung from a point above the bed. --- but then, I guess, any other hanging may so so difficult as not to be worth it.

The pop-up, tent type would seem to be the answer!

Keshava · Nov 2nd, 2009, 01:04

I never have a problem with using a net. On the other hand - I hate sleeping with an overhead fan blowing on me all night, keeps me awake and seems to cause "fan colds". Each to his own.

Golden Chapati · Nov 2nd, 2009, 02:21

Do they make nets for two?

Nick-H · Nov 2nd, 2009, 02:42

They make nets in all sizes.

I too hate sleeping (or sitting) under a fan. Even if there is no AC I'd much rather the fan was not blowing on me.

camelgirl · Nov 2nd, 2009, 03:17

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Originally Posted by Golden Chapati

Do they make nets for two?

from the website above (www.longroad.com) they do make double size freestanding bednets. http://216.166.86.104/cgi-local/Soft...460+1257135584 They have other models (like the tent) that also come double size.

However, I wouldn't get one for traveling because there will be many times you will not be able to use such a big bed tent. Many rooms push together single beds but sometimes they don't. It would limit your use of it. My husband and I each have the single size skeeter defeater.

Golden Chapati · Nov 2nd, 2009, 04:23

Thanks. I've only travelled the north during in the summer and never the south. Do hostels/hotels in the south generally not have their own nets?

wonderwomanusa · Nov 2nd, 2009, 09:13

I stayed at Tina Blue in Mamalapuram, and they had nets -- but I don't recall seeing other nets when visiting friends... I only saw a couple of hotels that way.

camelgirl · Nov 2nd, 2009, 10:07

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Originally Posted by Golden Chapati

Thanks. I've only travelled the north during in the summer and never the south. Do hostels/hotels in the south generally not have their own nets?

I can't remember ever seeing nets provided, except once a million years ago in Colva Beach Goa when it was still an untouristed empty beach town. (not now, tens of thousands are there over the winter!).

Anyway, very few nets provided, north or south in my personal experience--which is why we bought the skeeter defeater! Other's may have had other experiences. I've never stayed in a hostel.

ickle1981 · Nov 19th, 2009, 18:58

Dr Kat. Could u let me know where in london the shop is for nets? Im off to India in Jan so getting prepared. Thanks!

Oct 30th, 2009, 13:09	#62
palerider this is Brad. He's cute Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Armidale, N.S.W., Australia Posts: 2,226	I tried my best to use a mosquito net in Puri, a mosquito infested area. It made the fan not work, so as well as feeling like I'd been put under a funeral shroud, I had to try and sleep with no breeze in an appallingly hot room. After the first night of trying to accept this horror, I figured I'd try without it. NO MOSQUITO can fly through the breeze of a fan , so I never got bitten except in the street, and slept with the gentle breeze of the fan, and no shroud. Mosquito nets were used before fans were invented. There will always be people who insist they work, but you have to sacrifice the fan to use them, not a good swap, IMHO. You could, perhaps, smear mud all over your body, but the hotel people get really snippy when they have to clean the sheets. __________________ I always wanted to be someone when I grew up, I realise now that I should have been more specific.

Nov 2nd, 2009, 09:13	#69
wonderwomanusa Maha Guru Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Northern California Posts: 4,261	I stayed at Tina Blue in Mamalapuram, and they had nets -- but I don't recall seeing other nets when visiting friends... I only saw a couple of hotels that way. __________________ The map is not the territory. --Alfred Korzybski

Nov 19th, 2009, 18:58	#71
ickle1981 Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: London Posts: 2	Mosquito nets Dr Kat. Could u let me know where in london the shop is for nets? Im off to India in Jan so getting prepared. Thanks!

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