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[Pearlee]

I got a mosquito bite tonight which made me think how my mother used to put calamine lotion
on my mosquito bites when I was a little girl. I played outside so much in summer that I got lots of mosquito bites and had that awful pink chalky stuff all over me. The lotion definitely helped the itching but I hated the stuff.

Does anyone still use that?

[EatWell]

No.

[red&curly]

Yes Pearley hello.Used it a month ago as I got poison ivy two different times.Cleaning out flower bed!
Not as I remember it.It was sooo runny .Kept running down my arms , legs, a big mess.Couldnt get it to stay on the areas affected.
Friend told me product to by for poison ivy.Still took forever to go away!
Have a good night

[dimin]

No but I've been thimking of it. I got a scar from a mosquito bite.

[Kachina624]

I think cortisone creams and ointments are the new calamine lotion.  They may or may not work better but at least they're not pink.

[Katcat1]

Yes, it is actually in a product I have by Mario Badescu.

[Pearlee]

Hi @red&Curley. As I remember it, it goes on as you described it as a runny lotion. But you then have to let it dry and it's more chalky after it dries.

[Dinaki]

In Greece, we used to have a pain medication sold in kiosks, called Kalmalini.

[Pook]

Hated tat stuff!  Now I just put a dab of tea tree oil on for things that Calamine was once used for.

[eadu4]

Yes we do at my house.  We use the clear version not the pink stuff.  My husband always gets poison ivy, poison oak or poison something each summer working in the yard.  This year he got it bad.  He usually winds up at the doctors (which he did this year) for a steroid shot and a weeks worth of steroids.  We use calamine or Tecnu.   It doesn't run down you or make a mess if you use some gauze and dab it on.