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- DEET is a chemical used in many bug sprays. It's very good at repelling insects, but is it safe? Trace explains what DEET is, why we use it, and if it can actually be harmful.
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Ugh.. When a mosquito finds it's way into your room. And you're focused on something and then you hear that buzz near your ear. Or worse you get an itch. You have to interrupt whatever you're doing to go into "hunt mode". So annoying! I wish I could just... exterminate the mosquitos of the world.. It's not as if other species would die because of the missing link in the food chain.. right?
there are these mosquito magnet thingys. which generally clear roughly 1km radius area of em (by making the trap seem more delicious for em than you). very effective, my friend has one on his summer cabin (by the lake, used to have swarms of em buggers)
downside is, a good one will put you back around 1000 €
put out some old fruit, gnats will eat it replace the mosquitoes and problem solved.
What kinda mosquitoes get into your room??? Mosquitoes don't make any buzz sounds. They are the silent killers those annoying little suckers. I just battled one right now. I too can't go to sleep or continue doing anything until I destroy it once I know its in my room. They really have no purpose on this earth
Maria Rodriguez actually you are right but when they get right by your ear, you can hear the buzz.
Maria Rodriguez female mosquitos buzz and bite, males don't make noise or bite.
I hate mosquitoes more than any other animal in the world. 👿
***** mosquitos have killed more people than people. I think he is allowed to stick with it. Lol
***** humans don't bite as much.
imagine if mosquitoes were venomous. Now THAT would be scary.
Loys Eugene Carter well, like, there's malaria...
Jadden Norman that is a disease not a venom. Not all , really very few mosquitoes carry the disease malaria but if mosquitoes were venomous then every single one of them would be deadly.
I have practically bathed in DEET for more than 60 years. The only side effect I have noticed is it is extremely effective at keeping one from being eaten alive by mosquitoes. To me , DEET smells like summer!
Anything to get rid of mosquitos I don’t care
Once I put mosquito spray all over my body and then a stupid mosquito bit me right on the tip of my nose because I didn't put it on my face. Now I just don't even wear any. I just stay inside when there are a lot of them.
Danica DeCosto but they follow u
Cool thing about deet. Its insanely safe on humans skin daily all over and inhale it etc. Its safe and comfortable i and millions of diff types of workers and outdoor ppl used it daily for decades and decades. Ive. Used it thousands of times. Anyways cool thing is when need a powerful cleaner that regular cleaner spray is unable to clean you can add bug spray to that list of go to household safe super cleaners for certain things like some glues or really sticky stuff its case by case but its powerful like a degreaser used on car engines and wheels etc. Goo be gone.
The special one its perfect for and why we all should buy more is it cleans weed pipes like glass bongs bowls etc better than anything they sell or alcohol and salt etc. And it works on car glass tables and clear counters or whatever
Dude lmfao
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Protips for dealing with 'skeeters:
1) Keep moving. Even if it's just swinging your arms. The moment you stop moving it will get you.
2) Depending if you live by large bodies of standing water (i.e. swamps, standing puddles, ponds), you'll have more to deal with. Try leaving out mixture of cheap soda pop and disdetergent in a bowl. The soap prevents them from flying out and you WILL catch a ton. They make mosquito machines with an added fan, definitely worth a purchase.
3) When you feel them land, KILL THEM IMMEDIATELY! remember that you are human and these creatures shall not disrespect you.
4) Try not to catch malaria.
DEET... phhf i use a flamethrower, kills bugs and has a 100%success rate!
the only thing is make sure you follow the instructions of use:
- point away from face
- point away from people
- use far from other highly flammable sources (trees for example)
- others that dont need mention
L3gendaryLlama Or use deet spray as a flamethrower
@@tuongtran4862 holy shit yeah
I travel to a lot of high mosquito areas and find it hard to believe it makes us invisible to them. In many cases simply applying a small amount of a high DEET concentration insect repellant around the collar and cuffs is enough to scare the buggers off. The more likely alternative is that they can detect the chemical and do not like it; for whatever reason that may be and avoid it.
*Careful using DEET on pets!* As a former employee working on an information hotline for OFF and RAID products, it's always advised that DEET shouldn't be applied to areas where animals can lick themselves. As stated in the video, it's not wise to ingest DEET. If an animal scratches an itch on an applied area, the chemical can get onto paws and then licked. It's always best to check with your vet before using DEET on your pet.
I don't repell mosquitoes. I obliterate them.
There are 1000 different mosquito species.
And only about 100 of them go for human blood.
Meaning they can easily be made extinct without it having such a great impact on nature...
so someone go do it please.
Don't know if your channel is even active anymore but apparently scientists have thought about doing that
As someone who lives in the tropics bug repellents like DEET are part of our daily lives, specially during summer. If you don't have it on you will get swarmed by hundreds of mosquitoes a day.
One more of the big (and few) drawbacks of DEET is the damage it does to plastics. I'm a type one diabetic, and I use an insulin pump (its pretty much a mini iv), and can't use DEET bug sprays because it will ruin my pump. Also, it kind of seems like hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) attracts more mosquitoes. I've had many hundreds of bites happen in just a few hours.
Could you please do an episode on lyme desease? Friends and I go camping frequently, and we're really paranoid about ticks. Thanks!
i have given up. i have been placing a blood bag outside my door once a month as a sacrifice to the mosquitos and they have spared me the itchiness. its the itchiness that bothers you
Lemongrass is great. Scrunch a few leaves and rub it all over
Don't CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK!!!!!!!!!Or a SCARE!!!!DEET is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOD BLESS WHO EVER INVENTED IT
I live in Florida and we've been getting a ton of rain recently, which means swarms of mosquitoes, so I have my heavy duty bug spray that has 40% DEET. I'm watching as mosquitoes fly up to me, then just fly away. That's why I looked it up, wanted to know why it works so well.
How exactly do you spray it? Like perfume? or just go mad with it and cover every inch and crevice of your body?
Wait no. DDT is a performance in the World Wrestling entertainment/World Wrestling Federation !! the most famous shows watched by millions
and a pesticide
Waaaaa?! You don't know what noseeums are????! They are tiny hard to see mosquito that generally live in aquatic or semi aquatic places (basically everywhere I have ever lived ever). They are tiny, near invisible, and make you look like a jack ass trying to swat them all (they also travel in massive groups so if you go somewhere and see a small cloud like thing with little specks flying around, DONT GO NEAR IT! GO BACK INSIDE!).
But can you mix insect repellent and sunscreen at the same time?
I like how five people liked this comment but nobody answered.
7 years later I will finally answer. No
@@RE.MadStag and 8 months later, I'll disagree with you; yes.
Yes. There are sunscreens with insect repellent products available. Avon SkinSoSoft and Copperton, for example.
I'm glad you mentioned DDT because I never realized that I have been confusing the two my entire life. Thank you!
He did
In 1964 I was poisoned by DDT and spent 3 days in the hospital. Had to be carried in. Could no longer stand up and walk. Spraying chicken houses with it and the high pressure hose broke and I got drenched. Took a shower but it soaks in through skin. No, Deet is by far not the same chemical.
I've been deployed to Africa in the military, and 44% DEET insect repellent was issued. I still have some left over, and I use it when I go camping. My non-protected skin gets bites, but nowhere I've applied DEET ever does. I secretly like the smell :)
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I love that you called Wal-Mart "Wally World", Trace.
Welcome to DEET News!
I accidently sprayed this in my eyes. I was aiming for my legs & I didn't realise the lid was facing my way so when I pushed down on the pump it went in my eyes. I went to the hospital & had them rinsed out with a machine. My eyes have red lines in them & I'm so scared they are now going to have permanent red lines in them
Soooo you are saying not to drink 3 bottles of DEET everyday?? I dont get it. I am perfectly ill... I mean healthy! xD
The only thing I hate more than mosquitoes are cicadas, when those fuckers buzz and attack me, I literally shit myself.
In Brazil we use Citroanela Oil, idk if its the same as eucalyptus one but kinda works and smells good.
I have dealt with No see ums in the Florida Keys they are little tiny biting flies that are so small you can hardly see them (hence the name). However despite their small size their bites are very annoying and they attack you in little swarms flying around you like little gnats and that's what they will seem at first to be just gnats until they start biting you.
There is a rare allergy to a photodegradation product of DEET. So basically, you apply the stuff to your skin, go out in the sun for an hour, and you break out in a horrible rash. Not very fun for those who have it. I had a similar reaction to an unknown agent, and a colleague suggested it might be that. Turns out I'm not allergic to the DEET breakdown product, and we still don't know what caused the reaction, but it was three months of absolute torture. If I did find out it was DEET, I'd just give up on life and spend the rest of my days indoors like a hermit, or move to a colder climate.
There are other sprays out there.
Yeah, but for those of us not in that .001% of the population DEET is awesome, just like sunlight and peanuts.
i also had this happen when i was young. it was a sunscreen with deet added in. i had the worst rash all over my body for 2 or 3 weeks.
Its still a lot of musqoitous in Sweden for example.. Its always some inside.. We in Sweden think that 20 grader/celsius (if thats right) is very warm, and we want our windows and Doors open, on the evening, so that it gets cold inside, but the musquitos gets in and we always need to put DEET or as we call it "myggmedel" on us xD
or you could just go outside without bug spray..?
No see 'ums, from my experience, are about the same as chiggers, except smaller. I picked them up in the south, FL I believe, in grassy areas not around water but that could have been coinkidink. After the first exposure to them I had enough and always carried something with deet. They WILL drive you insane with itching and clear nail polish over the little bas...ds where they have embedded in your skin kicks their little 'no see 'um' butts.
Well that's good to know I suppose. I've been spraying myself down with 100% (98.11%) Deet whenever I go hiking late in the day.
Honestly, I'm allergic to deet. It causes my skin to itch and burn if i wear it for more than 10 minutes. there are other alternatives , but I'm pretty much allergic to everything. -.- my life kinda sucks.
I usually have a few beers or take a shot of some liiiiiiiquooor' and for some reason it propels all bugs, except this one time when a mosquito managed to get some blood, but he was drunk flying, I managed to kill him. TRY IT
I mix cinnamon with some olive oil and spread rub it on my skin, it keeps mosquitoes away and smell good.
maybe the mosquitoes were smart enough to realize that the stuff was toxic...
You said it, brother. Upvoted
DEET is a dog shampoo which is effective to get rid of ticks amd fleas.
I apply "vanilla extract" ( artificial or natural) on my skin for mosquitoes and it works. Good for people that are allergenic to deet.
Deet's the only thing I've found to keep the bugs off
Well I have used 100% DEET when I spent a month deep in the Adirondacks for Ranger School, in peak black fly season I might add. And it was just ... ok in the pestilent swarm of death. However, it was really good a melting my plastic mechanical pencil while I took notes. Yeah that's right ... the stuff melts plastic. They say its safe but you are putting stuff on your skin that MELTS PLASTIC. Just sayin.
That's so crazy! Thank you for sharing that! I have heard deet is horrible and am trying to find out why! I would call that a reason! Apparently deet and sunscreen together makes some chemical shit storm, so I will have to find more on that connection and why mixing the two is a terrible idea!
I never get mosquito bites (I'm apparently not that delicious ^^)
I've always used Deet. It works great. I've never had a problem with it and always told my friends to use it cause it was the best.
No see em's are absolutely vile creatures that should be eliminated from the earth, similar to mosquitoes.
They are extremely small and somewhat transparent. They swarm out around dusk and dawn and will make being anywhere outside far beyond unbearable. Just imagine thousands of tiny invisible little bugs biting you all over non stop for hours and you'll get an idea what they are like.
Perfect description! They really are worse than mosquito's! At least you can see mosquito's!
Little update on deets. Someone in princeton did research on deet and mosquitos. They actually found that deet doesnt affect the mosquito ability to find us. They can still sense us and land on us. The thing is mosquitos dont like the sensation of deet on their feet so as soon as they land they fly away.
You mean Deet is odourless?
What about Avon's Skin So Soft, for a mosquito repellant. It works for me.
I found out the other day that I am allergic to it. I accidentally breathed in bug repellent and I had muscle spasms, numbness in the upper chest and throat and my face. It dropped my blood pressure then cranked it up but then everything dropped off almost back to normal but they didn’t tell me that I would throw up for 20 hours straight and have brutal muscle aches 😮 I spent 4 hours in the hospital ER just for them to say yeah your liver will get it in hours. That stuff was scary 😨
No see ems are the worst, they live in Florida.
Definitely far worse than mosquitos. So many attack at a time that you can't even feel individual bites. It just feels like a burning all over your legs. Yellow flies (dear flies) have the worst individual bites though. I have quite a few yellow fly bites right now and one in particular has been itching for days, and forget scaring those guys off with deet.
Primalxbeast I've had the honor of trying to read a book alone in a park with an unlimited amount of no see ems, I killed them by the dozen and I still got bit non-stop. It was awful, itching everywhere and feeling like shit.
I actually left and biked back home.
noseeums suck. they are like mosquitos but tiny and there is a ton of them where they are
FORGET ABOUT DEET. DON'T USE DEET. DO NOT USE DEET.
No-see-ems are vicious little impossible to spot annoyances that are the reason my lower arms and legs appear permanently goosebumped after a vacation to the Florida keys.
He has clearly never spent time in Florida! lol! I was camping in the keys and my pop up camper was infested with them! I have no idea how they got in! We were being eaten alive while trying to sleep and we were so desperate we literally lit one of those green mosquito coils inside the camper! They all died within a few minutes and we were finally able to air it out and sleep! Probably not the best thing to breathe, but we were desperate! I highly recommend those green mosquito coils for no-see-ums if you are ever attacked! I keep a pack with me now whenever I go camping! They also work spectacular for mosquito's! I really hate spraying any kind of chemical on me, so they are a great option as long as you are not breathing it in!
I'm a graduate student currently writing my thesis on DEET and DEET analogues that I've synthesized, and it's pretty cool that this has been getting some attention lately. Unfortunately I think somebody just discovered at least 10 natural compounds that are 1000x more effective that DEET, so we may be shifting away from this finally! I guess that could also be fortunate depending on your viewpoint.
@DanOfTheWild trees have been making pest repellants a lot longer than we have. Thank them for all that THC and caffeine you ingest too, those are pest repellents made by plants.
what are the 10 natural compounds 1000x more effective than deet? i've looked at a number of research articles and all of them suggest deet is the gold standard
Nicotine as well! Just because plants make something doesn’t make it better. Our version of aspirin is an improvement on the willow trees take.
@DanOfTheWild you use medicine though I bet, so in other words, you use drugs like everyone.
@@kainibus are you intentionally dodging my question about what's more effective than d
I wonder if DEET is paying Dnews to say that
Possible that some company that manufactures DEET is.
DEET can melt certain plastics, I've experienced it. Can't be good for your skin to absorb.
Dnews has a well earned reputation. Stop defaming science channels with conspiracy theories
Help will I be ok
I was in the car with my brother waiting at the pharmacy with the widow rolled half way there were mosquitoes so he sprayed some spray on himself....later on in the day to go home I guess there was still spray in the air of the car or something because my throat got irritated.. I keep trying to cough it out will that help at all? and now my stomach is upset and I have a small headache I nothing else though.
during the ride home the windows where up for 15min maybe....after that I rolled them down.
Should I be worried. Well I already am.
I'm not confused I remember everything about it other than what's mentioned above I feel fine.
Doing my best not to freak out it's been 6 hours since it's happened.
Advice?
Help.
Should I call poison control?
I'm really anxious about this.😖
They got this man doing this video and aint ever been around nah-sea-umms!!!!
Your joking right!!!!!
I dont even bat an eye at mosquitos anymore until ive got 50 on my arm then do the good old shmear technique and get back to fishing(mosquito lagoon)
Those nah-sea-umms though.... Ive literally seen people leave there boat at the ramp and just get in there truck and leave because there having a panic attack from them biting the inside of there eyelids ears and nose.
I mainly use deet for ticks so my lovly woman doeant have to help my pull them out from my unmentionable regains.
After you experiance someone have a full blown crying cant catch there breath panic attack from them things you simply wont understand.
Legand has it if you need a man dead tie him to a chair at low tide and sunset and hell have cardiac arrest while yall were "fishing"
I hate Mosquitos I have repelent and they still get me :P
Try Lavender soap or body wash, it should help.
I'm more interested in what you said about DEET being "a tiny bit toxic to birds, fish, and aquatic invertebrates." To what extent does humans' use of DEET affect these organisms?
go spend some time in the woods, you'll forgot all about that rather quickly
@@robertstan2349 or in a tropic jungle, even faster. Trust me :)
Brand name is not important, its' the % of deet that's important. 98% deet will stop mosquitos and black flies no matter how bad they are. Mosquitos vary from place to place and those natural products don't work everywhere.
Noseeums are a gnats that are so small they can fly throw screens, in my home town during the summer they are a pain. Good news is it only take 3-4 day of over 100 degrees heat to kill them off. Which is pretty come where I am from, but the summer were we didn't get that heat were really bad.
Well I'm going to Guatemala for a charity mission and DEET is literally the only thing that will be standing between me and the swarm of blood trusty assholes known as mosquitoes... so yeah it's hard to complain about it :D
Would you please point me to one study that encompassed more than 1000 test subjects, followed the scientific method, published and peer reviewed not conducted by a government or corporate interest. Just one will do the trick.
i went to Yosemite national park on saturday and i got bit by a freakn mosquito on my right temple! i mean i put the spray all over my body except my face. Now i have a puffy right eye and everything. -.-
I wouldn't care if DEET was dangerous, everything in moderation right, i'm only ever outside long enough to need bug spray like 5-10 times a year
It also ruins the s*** out of plastic so don't spray it on anything plastic or in the minimum it ruins the paint job on plastic
Wait.. isnt this guy who said being naked is good for you? pfhhh.. ill pass. on to the next video.
I.. HATE.. Mosquitoes.. They always seem to find me,, Eeeeven when I'm with my friend it seems that I am their number 1 target >.
Noseeums: A gnat sized fly that has a pitbulls bite.. Well, not really, but it is crazy how painful the bites are, it's just a damn Gnat but I swell up like a mosquito bit me..The worst, are Yellow fly /Deer fly, they will put a damn baseball on me.
deet is my saving grace! i HATE those buggy bugs.
I'd take cancer, elephantydis, and two broken legs in a flinch rather than mosquito bites. But yeah DEET is safe so no need for all that.
you should do a daily news about Nibiru/Planet X so we will know if the planet is doomed or not. I for one am trying to get as many people aware so please make a video about it DNews
I am so lucky living in Central America. From Austria I was used to really big mosquitos that would sting pretty bad if they got to you and in the masses they exist at lakes its no fun at all. Here the mosquitos for some reason are about a third of the ones I know. My friends always complain and I dont feel shit. :D
i have a mosquito net build into my legs and arms. plus i have gotten so used to them that i just ignore them
I hate having this oily product on my skin. In Canada, I would rater suffer the occasional mosquito bite than cover myself in this poison. Citronella works well and is halfway pleasant to use.
Icaridin (or picaridin) is equally effective at 20% concentration and does not have these unpleasant effects on plastic objects.
I get eaten alive by Mosquitos in the summer 😑 it's not even summer and I have close to 10 bites if not a few more just from this weekend alone.
little interested when the percentage application is 300% in indoor living quarters. What is the nuerological damage that will/does cause?
no-see-ums is a bug much like a misquote accept the bits burn a lot more, the reason 2 why they r called no-see-ums is because ushally u can't c the darn pests
At around 1: 07 I'm pretty sure that is a harmless velvet mite, not a bloodsucking flea.
I will take my chance with DEET over getting bit by a mosquito.
My theory is...don't put anything on your skin you won't eat!
You buy edible clothes!!!
I'm a nudist
This is why robots will replace us as workers.. time
Saved on swatting mosquitoes
Ford owners be like , just fix it before my friends find out!
put cow poop on your campfire, keeps away the mosquitoes. Doesn't terribly great but it is effective
A noseeum is an Australian chigger. They are just like the American variety except with a cooler accent.
Mosquitos here in Texas appear to have doubled in size I'm gonna go ahead and stock up on some DEET
I really hate mosquitos, I get bit almost every day and each bite has a chance if giving me malaria or dengue fearer
Noseeums are exactly what they sound like, no see ums, they're biting bugs that are small and hard to see.
Whoa. You said "Wallyworld". I never hear that on youtube! I mean I'm Canadian so I say it all the time... but still! at 2:39
If you have ever camped in Canada you would plutonium if it could keep the mosquitos away!
I had 100 DEET repellent before, I just put it on my clothes and not on my skin.
No-see-ems (I can't believe that's their actual name lol) are horrible. The tiny little bites bleed and swell up much much more then a mosquito bite. You usually don't notice until someone says "hey why are you bleeding? Hey why am I bleeding? Goddam no-see-ems!!!"
You may not feel the bites at first but they itch like crazy later. The flies are so small it's really hard to see them. I'm just glad they aren't as wide spread as mosquitoes! That would be hell.
You might got paid by DEET producers... I will stick to natural remedy.
So at about 1:00, he mentions that DEET is a "tiny bit toxic to fish, birds and aquatic invertebrates". Would a TH-camr who's more eggheaded than I be willing to elaborate on that? It's great that DEET is widely safe for humans, but due to the fact that this is what the public is most focused on when they do searches on the stuff, research on its effects (long and short-term) to the environment are harder to find. Thanks in advance!
When I was younger I had a big scare. I would put Off on every night because I was afraid of the West Nile Virus. Nothing happened until like two years ago when my anxiety started up. I'm still wary, but I'm in control. Still hate the bastards though
Ole oil of lemon eucalyptus is not the same as the Essential oil so thats not true that its sold at Walmart. They are different
No-see-um is a small little fly like thing that is really small and can bite sometimes but is mostly just annoying. It can go through window screens, so it is pretty small.
The only bad thing I know of about deet it is can break down synthetic cloth over time.
Awww ticks and misquitos are terrible, seems more so this year. I've been using nothing but 100% deet for two years now (and my dog.) We're both fine and virtually bite free on the trail in a tank....need the deet!!!
The main reason I avoid deet is if it gets on your hands, it can rub markings off of waterbottles, lost the measurements on my favorite water bottle that way
Ugh... audible here too? NOT INTERESTED. For fucks sake!@_@
I used DEET when I went to Africa, got fewer bites and didn't have to worry so much about malaria. I took the anti-malaria pills, but you want to be extra safe in a foreign place.