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was just reading about these in real simple magazine

http://dontbugmepatch.com/

I prefer to apply a different product over my entire body: http://www.saranbrands.com/. It's non-toxic and effective.

Cheers, RickG

Hey MB,
Wouldn't sublingual vitamin B work the same? It is absorbed under the tongue right into the bloodstream.

no clue how it works just passing it along.

Website said it is better than ingesting vit B because Vit B gets broken down in stomach before being sweated out through pores. The patch they sell and sublingual vit B go into the bloodstream directly. I only know this about Vit B because I thought I was anemic and looking at the treatment methods. Hey, you can also get Vit B shot

Interesting - vitamin B1 is utilized by the liver in processing alcohol. These patches might help with those hangovers. All malt lightly filtered craft-brewed beers are also a good source of vitamin B1.

I think most sublinguial vitamin B supplements are B12. B12 does not make it past the stomach before being broken down. Alcohol is a strong B12 antagonist and B12 deficiencies can worsen hangovers.

Cheers, RickG

RickG wrote:Interesting - vitamin B1 is utilized by the liver in processing alcohol. These patches might help with those hangovers. All malt lightly filtered craft-brewed beers are also a good source of vitamin B1.

I think most sublinguial vitamin B supplements are B12. B12 does not make it past the stomach before being broken down. Alcohol is a strong B12 antagonist and B12 deficiencies can worsen hangovers.

Cheers, RickG

you're a chemist, too???

I was getting ready to buy Vit B1 before our trip at Wal-Mart. My pharmacist saw me and I asked him about the repellant properties of Vit B1. First he said the Vit B1 would make me stink like sulphur and in order for it to work as a repellant, I'd have to ingest way more than what was in that bottle---and then be even stinkier.

Rick- I checked my bottle. It is all the B's except B1. But... they do sell just sublingual B1.

MaryBeth- Rick is a fermentation specialist I used to work in fermentation and cell culture dept and that was the big thing the guys were into-brewing beer,how the lab equipment makes such great brewing equipment, etc.

Kellyanna- I think I will try the B1 anyway and see if I do indeed stink Will let you know.

Nevermind....
http://www.uspharmacist.com/index.asp?s ... 8_1768.htm

Yah, you got me. I'm a yeasty boy - one of the best sources of Vitamin B. I used to take brewer's yeast tablets as a vitamin supplement. Then I found out that the efficacious amount of brewer's yeast as a vitamin B supplement has enough uric acid to cause certain problems - at 27 I go gout in my big toe. I switched to a more standard multi-vitamin (still smells of brewers yeast) and the gout never came back.

A vitamin does help a nasty hangover. It doesn't take much for me to get hungover. That's my natural drinking curb. I know that I will feel 3 drinks in the morning.

Balance in all things, including vitamins and sobriety.

Cheers, RickG

Thought I'd revive this old thread and see if anyone order/used it? Is this similiar to the patches Ruth sells at St. John Spice?

RickG wrote:Interesting - vitamin B1 is utilized by the liver in processing alcohol. These patches might help with those hangovers. All malt lightly filtered craft-brewed beers are also a good source of vitamin B1.

I think most sublinguial vitamin B supplements are B12. B12 does not make it past the stomach before being broken down. Alcohol is a strong B12 antagonist and B12 deficiencies can worsen hangovers.

Cheers, RickG

WOW! You are just an encyclopedia. great info we get to beat bugs and hangovers in one fell swoop.

cherie

RickG wrote:I prefer to apply a different product over my entire body: http://www.saranbrands.com/. It's non-toxic and effective.

Cheers, RickG

Um, doesn't it make you just a little sweaty and do you use a chipotle "rub" before applying?

cherie

Rick G. wrote:
Saran wrap, it's non-toxic and effective.


With all this talk of the powers of Vitamin B in insect repellancy (among other things), I think someone should email Mythbusters, sounds like a good episode!

Bryon is a bug magnet, and always gets eaten alive! I'm just wanting to do anything reasonably safe to keep him itch free!