Relieve Bug Bites To soothe the itch of a mosquito or flea bite, apply a wet wrung-out wash cloth or a paste of one teaspoon water and three teaspoons baking soda.

In order to attest to this use of salt, I were washing hair with salt water several times, as I expected, the scalp didn't itch and the hair hardly lost.

Side effects may include: dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, water retention, painful rectal itch, hallucination, dementia, psychosis, coma, death, and halitosis.