Nutrition Diet: What Vitamin Deters Midges? The Scientific Consensus
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Despite a folk remedy for preventing insect bites that has persisted since the 1940s, a comprehensive 2022 review of over 100 papers found that oral thiamine (vitamin B1) cannot repel arthropods in any dosage or route of administration. This widespread myth concerning what vitamin deters midges is scientifically unfounded.
