It Turns Out That This Is The Blood Group That Mosquitoes Like, Are You Included?

YOGYAKARTA - Have you ever felt that you are more often bitten by mosquitoes than other people? Apparently, this is not just a feeling. Based on research, there are blood types that mosquitoes like.

As we know, mosquitoes usually approach sweaty individuals. These insects love the smell of lactic acid and ammonia emitted by human sweat.

In addition to sweat, carbon dioxide exhaled by individuals can also attract mosquitoes. Mosquitoes will use an organ called maxillary palm to detect carbon dioxide from a distance of about 49 meters. A study even mentioned that mosquitoes will swarm people who emit a lot of carbon dioxide.

Furthermore, mosquitoes also like individuals with certain blood types. So, what blood types do mosquitoes like? Let's look at the full information here.

Adapting Healthline, a number of research conducted by experts stated that mosquitoes appear to be more interested in individual O-blood type owners than others.

A research conducted in 1974 with 102 participants investigating various factors that can make a person more frequently bitten by mosquitoes.

In the research, it was said that mosquitoes prefer to bite people with O blood type.

Another study conducted in 2004, experts examined mosquito preferences for blood types and the status of the secretor. As a result, mosquitoes prefer to surround people classified as O blood.

However, the results of this research are only statistically significant when compared to blood type A and not to other blood types.

When blood-class antigens are applied to the participants' arms, mosquitoes are significantly more attracted to people with antigen H (type O) than antigen A.

On the other hand, antigen A is significantly more attractive than antigen B.

Next, research conducted in 2019 also shows similar results.

When researchers provide samples of different types of blood in separate eating places, it is observed that mosquitoes prefer O-type evaporation to other feeders. Even so, further research is still needed to support this idea.

Quoting the Very Well Health page, another study also found that certain species of mosquitoes have the following preference:

After knowing the type of blood that mosquitoes like, here are some ways you can do to prevent mosquito bites:

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