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INSECT REPELLENTS
- When choosing a repellent remember that products with between 30 to 50% DEET (diethyltolumide) are the most effective. Higher
dosages of DEET are available. If preferred and non-DEET products can be used to protect children.
- Wash excess repellent of your skin before going to bed.
- Use a Mosquito net if sleeping outdoors or in a room without proper fly screening. Ensure that it is correctly fitted.
- Use Mosquito nets impregnated with permethrin to discourage insects from landing on the net and possibly biting its slumbering
occupant through the holes.
- Use sprays around dawn and dusk (mosquito's most active time of day).
- Mosquito coils and plug-in repellents are very effective, and should be used if available.
- High pitched buzzers are not effective.
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