Purpose for Everything

What Good Are Mosquito's???
They are huge food source for songbirds, bats and dragonflies..so I really don't hate them, we (me & Skylar) just have to learn to love bug dope on a daily basis....

Thank you for your concern over Tuki's reaction. I should clarify what I meant when I said that the Dr. said nothing could be done. He meant nothing, but daily application of bug dope, to prevent an allergic reaction in the future. I wanted a drug that would prevent any sort of reaction from occurring at all, ever again. I guess there is no such miracle drug. This current one, over the eye is about the fifth time she has had one since she came home last May. All the others have been behind her ears, or on her limbs. The first time I saw it happen was when she was 9 months old. My Ped recommended putting her on a low dose of Claratin to prevent it from occurring in the future, ever again. You see I wanted something easy. So since April she has been taking a low dose each morning. But as you can see it didn't help. So this time, a new Dr., also well respected and well liked switched her to Benadryl, 1 tsp four times daily while she is swollen and yes she is also on oral antibiotics three times each day. He also prescribed hydrocortizine to put on a new bite to hopefully prevent the swelling. But I can't use it now because the one over her eye is now an open wound that is oozing a little. Good thing, because it hasn't gotten any worse and her attitude is good which leads me to believe that she feels better.

This new Dr and I were talking and wondering why, with Owl being born in Guatemala, a tropical country, that her genes passed down from her ancestors haven't adapted to resist the bug bite toxin. It makes me think that her genes have adapted over time for the toxin in the bugs found in Guatemala, but the toxin in the bugs found in the northern Midwest must be different thereby causing this reaction. I can't help but think with these severe reactions that eventually her body will have the antibodies to resist the new strain of toxin. I hope my thinking is correct.

There were twin girls with sickle cell anemia needing a home from the same orphanage where Hawk resides. They have thankfully found a home, but their illness led me to research why sickle cell anemia was so prevalent in the black population but not in other ethnic populations. So this is what I found out..
Malaria, a deadly disease carried in mosquito's found in the tropics, kill millions of individuals each year. Well it has been discovered that over time the black (more melanin in the skin to protect from the direct sun rays) population which originated near the tropics, that had the disease sickle cell anemia, were more resistant to Malaria, thereby surviving to pass on those genes to their off-spring... and then of course through immigration and emigration, and also unfortunately slavery sickle cell anemia is now found through out the world where ever you find populations of black people. Interesting isn't it. It was once an advantage to have this illness, but now a great disadvantage.