Sunday, December 20, 2009

Health Agencies Urge Parents to Protect Kids from Mosquitoes as West Nile Virus Cases Surge

Repellent Bug Bam! wristband is all-natural addition to DEET products.

Los Angeles, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 12, 2008 -- Health admiral above America are advertisement a billow in cases of West Nile Virus and advancement parents to assure accouchement from the mosquito bites that advance the potentially baleful disease. The virus causes austere affection in about 20 percent of adulterated people, and so far this year is affiliated to two deaths in Arizona and Mississippi, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bug Bam Insect Repelling Wristband

We had our anniversary Memorial Day BBQ. The accepted alien bugs came out in force. We adjudge to try out the Bug Bam articles we afresh received. Within moments the annoying pests were gone. The artefact did its job and what my guests and I aswell accepted was how simple to use this all-natural artefact is. In Oklahoma we accept mosquitoes the admeasurement of baby sparrows. I never heard addition complaint afterwards the Bug Bam arrived. Not alone did Bug Bam work, it alleviated some of our capital apropos apropos the insect issue, the prevalence of Malaria and the black barrage of insects into our one-man tents. Arming kids with insect repellent, installing window and aperture fly-screens and clarification sources of brackish baptize are recommended careful measures during aiguille infection period, from aboriginal August through October, according to the CDC.

Conventional aqueous insect repellents are generally messy, evil-smelling and await on a actinic pesticide alleged DEET, which may abrade derma and eyes. But the new Bug Bam! Insect Repelling Wristband is the alone 100 percent accustomed abhorrent scientifically-proven by arch US entomology labs to repel mosquitoes and added absinthian insects in 98 percent of the population.
Bug Bam Products' natural, FDA-approved capacity cautiously repel mosquitoes by abounding bulb odors that affectation the accustomed anatomy odors that attract mosquitoes. The EPA-approved accustomed capacity acclimated in Bug Bam articles - citronella, bittersweet and lemongrass - are aswell affectionate to the environment, according to Australian outdoors enthusiast, environmentalist and architect of Bug Bam Products, Joseph M. Symond, who developed the wristband in acknowledgment to the alive mosquitoes that baffled his wilderness adventures.

Endorsed by the National Camp Association, the fun, ablaze red Bug Bam wristband, which sports the words "Because Mosquitoes Suck" - protects a adolescent or developed for up to 100 hours, clashing acceptable actinic repellents, which are adulterated by baptize and damp and have to be reapplied throughout the day. Left unopened in the packet, the wristband charcoal able for
up to two years. The artefact comes in packets of one or two wristbands. People with astringent allergies to fragrances of capital oils should argue an MD afore application Bug Bam! products.

Entertaining Solutions:
For safe, hassle-free calm and alfresco absorbing and camping, the Bug Bam Camp Grids, artificial blind grids that repel absinthian insects for up to 100 hours above a 300-square-foot area. The 5-inch-square filigree comes in a vapor-proof zip-locked re-sealable bag and is reusable for up to two years. Bug Bam aswell sells a amount backpack absolute one filigree and 5 wristbands.
Bug Bam's wristband and blind filigree articles are now accessible at baddest U.S. retailers, including Wal-Mart and BJs and online at www.bugbam.com.

About West Nile Virus:
While 80 percent of humans apparent to West Nile Virus never acquaintance symptoms, up to 20 percent ache debilitating affection such as fever, headache, and anatomy aches, nausea, vomiting, bloated lymph glands or derma rashes, according to the CDC.

About one in 150 adulterated humans advance austere complications such as top fever, headache, close stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, beef weakness, eyes loss, asleep and paralysis. Rarer is potentially baleful West Nile encephalitis, or academician inflammation; and West Nile meningitis, deepening of film in the academician and analgesic cord.

So far in 2008, WNV cases in bodies accept been appear in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming, according to CDC data. Further instances of the aerial ache accept been appear in birds, insects and animals in added US states. Link to CDC map: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/mapsactivity/surv&control08maps.htm.

Why a Powerful Natural Repellent is Preferable to Chemical Repellents:
DEET, or diethyl-meta-toluamide, is the actinic pesticide a lot of frequently acclimated in insect repellents. In some instances DEET causes eye and derma irritations and reactions, and in attenuate cases, is associated with seizures, according to the National Pesticide Information Center. The American Academy of Pediatrics urges parents not to use DEET articles on accouchement adolescent than 2 months and to administer the articles a best of already a day to accouchement earlier than 2 months.

More Tips for Avoiding Mosquitoes:
1.   Avoid ambrosial hair aerosol and cologne
2.   Particularly abstain acknowledgment if mosquitoes are a lot of active, at dark and dawn
3.   Eliminate continuing baptize area mosquitoes lay eggs, such as annual pots, bird baths, ponds, alone pools and hot tubs, accessible boats and wheelbarrows
4.   Install or adjustment window and aperture screens
5.   Report asleep birds to bounded authorities. Mosquitoes backpack the virus from birds to humans
6.   Band with neighbors to apple-pie up brackish baptize in bounded parks

Bug Bam Testimonials:
"We had our anniversary Memorial Day BBQ. The accepted alien bugs came out in force. We adjudge to try out the Bug Bam articles we afresh received. Within moments the annoying pests were gone. The artefact did its job and what my guests and I aswell accepted was how simple to use this all-natural artefact is." -- Jeff Solomon - Director, National Camp Association

"In Oklahoma we accept mosquitoes the admeasurement of baby sparrows. I never heard addition complaint afterwards the Bug Bam arrived." -- Spokesperson for the National Veterans Golden Age Games in Norman, Oklahoma - VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK.

"Not alone did Bug Bam work, it alleviated some of our capital apropos apropos the insect issue, the prevalence of Malaria and the black barrage of insects into our one-man tents." -- Dual Olympic Heptathlete, Jane Flemming of Australia, who led a expedition through the Papua New Guinea jungle.

BIOGRAPHY: Joseph M. Symond, architect of Bug Bam! Products:
Australian administrator and ardent outdoorsman Joseph M. Symond developed the Bug Bam ambit of articles as a aftereffect of his own arresting encounters with mosquitoes while adequate the abundant outdoors. Symond began creating accustomed remedies for mosquitoes aback in 1998, and, seeing a broader charge for a natural, chemical-free eco-friendly mosquito repellent, he developed the DEET-free food-grade Bug Bam armlet in 2004. Symond, who lectures and speaks publically on the dangers of mosquito exposure, has broadcast Bug Bam's ambit of articles to cover the Bug Bam Camp Grid and Bug Bam pet-collar. Symond's charge to developing socially amenable articles has its roots in a near-fatal advance he suffered age 14 by a Blue-Ringed Octopus, for which there is no anti-venom.

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