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Dr. Susan Jewell is a trained doctor and scientist in clinical research medicine, as well as a stem cell scientist in oncology and AIDS/HIV at the National Cancer Institute and UCLA...read more
"Hello, my name is Dr. Susan Jewell. Now in this clip I'm going to show you another way you can have to reduce the chance of being bitten and stung by insect and poison snakes and animals out there. You go out camping or just go out into the woods and it's been found that chlorine which I have here, I bought a nice big gallon of chlorine but you can buy smaller quantity of course. Chlorine has an insect repellent properties to it. And insects seem to, do not like the smell of chlorine so, you get less chance of being bitten actually if you have chlorine on you. The smell of chlorine too. So what you can do is of course, not pour chlorine over your skin, no no . Oh no what you can do is, you can add a little bit chlorine into your bath. When you wash your clothes, so that the chlorine smell and the odor and some of it in stays your wash, clothing or you can add a few drops into water before you go out camping or out into the woods. And you can just rub this into your skin. I know it doesn't smell good and there are other ways but this is if you know you?re in a rush and you don't have animals, insect repellent spray or cream. And you just don't want to get bitten. This is one way you when can actually you know avoid as a preventive more than anything else it kind of acts as a repellent. And make sure it's just only few drops of chlorine in the water because you don't want to you know affect your skin and if your sensitive, very sensitive skin, I don't advise you to do this or if your out there you don't have anything on hand , this is one way to try to get a repellent on you. So you just dab it on your skin. So like I said make it sure that it is very, very mild only one or two drops, you know in a big bowl of water. So this is one way to do it so to address the insect bites and the bee stings."
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