You can buy little tubes of bites and stings cream that contain 1% hydrocortisone (£1.50 Asda). It works until you can fall asleep but it's steroid, innit? Anthisan works for a bit longer but it stinks. I've tried taking a one-a-day antihistamine but, despite what they say on the pack, they all make me drowsy. The idea that I can't go anyone for several months a year unless I'm doused in DEET is depressing. It dissolves the colour out of plastic shopping bags which then stain yours skin and clothes. There is no God.