You have severe itching problems when bitten by an insect. Your friend gives you an ointment to spread on your skin around the bite so that the redness and itching do not bother you. The likely mechanism of this medication would be

A. the inactivation of neutrophils.

B. the inhibition of lysozyme.

C. to act as an antagonist of histamine.

D. the destruction of phagocytic cells.