Mosquitos and Vitamin B

As an old myth would have it, started in the 60's, it was claimed that an increase in vitamin B would ward off mosquitoes. As researchers came to discover this clam was false. They set up a study that used people that increased their intake of vitamin B, another group who took vitamin C and another that had nothing. The subjects would take the vitamin everyday for eight weeks. Every two weeks the experimenters used a swarm of mosquitoes to see if there were any effects. The results concluded that their was no difference in the group.

I never heard of this wives tail before I read this article. I did know that vitamin B does help to promote cell growth particularly blood cells, I just don't see the relationship in repelling mosquitoes.

I have heard that garlic works.

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2008/sep/12/no-help-vitamin-b-doesnt-repel-mosquitoes-studies-/lifestyles/ article from The New York Times