Living With No-See-Ums

For more than a year, John Whittington has been bitten — constantly — by gnats so small he can barely see them. This is his book about living with no-see-ums: what they are, why the standard advice didn’t work for him, and what actually helped.

It starts with his story — a hip infection, a medical spacer, and a year of being eaten alive by an insect most people never even notice — then it gets practical: how no-see-ums find you and where they breed, why ordinary screens, sprays, and traps underdeliver, and how to defend the house, the yard, and your own skin in layers. A full chapter covers the extra care that matters when you live with an open wound or medical hardware, and why protecting that site comes first.

The heart of the book is Chapter 7, in John’s own words: the homemade spray he mixes himself — exactly what goes in it, how he uses it, and where it doesn’t belong — plus the traps he builds for pennies, the products he wasted money on, and the small habits that finally let him get some sleep. The appendix holds his battle checklist — house, yard, person, wound — and simple trackers for logging bites and what actually worked.

This is one man’s experience, honestly told — not medical advice, and no promises that it will cure or prevent anything. Just what worked for the man who lived it, written down so somebody else being eaten alive can start fighting back tonight.

55 pages. Instant PDF download after checkout — yours to keep, read on any device.

By John Whittington.