Why do you rub baking soda or calamine solution when an ant bites us?

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When an ant bites, it injects formic acid into our skin, which is painful and may be very harmful sometimes. The effect of the acid can be neutralised by rubbing moist baking soda, i.e., sodium hydrogen carbonate or calamine solution containing zinc carbonate.

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