Dear Lactnetters -
        A while back I was thumbing through one of my son's entomology
magazines (he is nine, so we are not talking scientific journal here.)
There was an article that explained how mosquitoes find their victims by
zeroing in on their prey's exhaled carbon dioxide.   Mouth breathers expel
exhaled carbon dioxide outward (like a beacon) while nose breathers exhale
downward and close to the body.
        Since breastfeeding reduces allergies then breastfed babies may be
less likely to be mouth breathers, right?  Could this account for what some
people noticed as a reduction of bites in a breastfed baby?
        Just a thought from a lurker.
WarmLLLy,
Elizabeth

Elizabeth Tencza in Durham, North Carolina (USA)
Wife to Michael, Mother to Christopher (9) Matthew (8) & Amanda-Eden (5)
and "YaYa" to Celia (9 months)