Chiggers.........

warddog · Post by **warddog** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:14 pm

Folks, here's my remedy for stopping the itching and killing chiggers. I draw me a good hot bath tub full of water as hot as I can stand it. I then add SALT to make a very heavy salt concentration in the tub of water. This next step is the most important so listen carefully. While the tub is filling with the HOT, SALT water mixture I sit butt naked on the toilet and scratch all bites until they bleed. After I've got them oozing pretty good I soak in the HOT, SALT water. WOW, does that hurt so good and with all that pain you'll forget about the itch. This seems to stop the itching and appears to kill the chiggers as I start to heal up without much itch there after. Of course the sores will scab over and look pitiful but at least I'm not going crazy scratching. I ain't no doctor so don't ask for pain remedies you just gotta determine which is worse the menacing itching or the pain that only hurts so good for a short time.

danny vansickle · Post by **danny vansickle** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:56 am

i dug them till they bled then put clear nail polish on them and wow!!!!!!!

that hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but it don't itch no more

Chaffin Crank · Post by **Chaffin Crank** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:03 am

I don't have them all over me just in 2 spots...I have been putting some benadryl gel stuff on them and that has controled the itching but when I start working man do they start burning......especially the one on my armpit......I've had them going on a week now and they are still as bad as they were last week.....

mdbeagler · Post by **mdbeagler** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:42 am

Contrary to popular belief chiggers do not burrow under
the skin, they attach to the skin and inject an enzyme.
Usually by the time you notice the bite the chigger has already
fed and dropped off, or has been killed by you scratching because
they have very delicate bodies. They leave behind a kind of feeding
tube in the skin that with the enzyme causes the horrible itching.
I never run dogs, or enter the field without using some kind of bug
repellent. I treat my clothes with permanone spray from Wal-Mart,
I haven't had a problem out of ticks or chiggers, using this stuff.

Check out this link

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question488.htm

Mapel Valley Kennels LLC. · Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:43 am

Buy a box of fabric softener, rub a sheet up and down legs and arms , no chiggers ... Garlic also works. Just taste so freaking bad.Fabric softner works the best for me......I aint never understood why chiggers were ever invented anyway.....

Chain rock · Post by **Chain rock** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:32 am

Clear nail polish is what I always use, I have heard of people rubbing a wash cloth soaked in clorox.

ANTHONY KERR · Post by **ANTHONY KERR** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:03 am

The larval chigger is an active creature that moves to the tip of grasses and fallen leaves to wait for and grab onto a passing meal. Rodents are a common host but chiggers can attack a variety of other animals and humans. Chiggers move to a feeding spot (ears of rodents, around the eyes of birds, or where clothing is tight on humans) and attach themselves tightly to the skin. After secreting digestive enzymes, they suck up liquefied host tissues. They neither suck blood nor burrow into the skin. The rash and intense itching associated with chiggers is an allergic reaction to the mite's salivary secretions.
Chiggers most frequently occur in overgrown brush or grassy areas, especially where small rodents are abundant. Females lay eggs on the ground in groups of up to 400, picking damp but well drained sites. They may be particularly abundant near stream banks, under trees, orchards, or berry thickets. There is one generation each year with chiggers most abundant during July, August, and early September.

Keep putting an oily antibiotic spray on the areas and it will ease the itching. Wally world sells a hydrocortisone spray that helps alot. Nail polish or remover make the rash worse because of the solvents used. Acetone, toluene, or benzene dry out the rash and make the itching worse.

danny vansickle · Post by **danny vansickle** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:49 am

i got some chigger x plus from cvs,6 bucks for a lil tub but it helps,some.

Joeyman · Post by **Joeyman** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:30 pm

I took a look last night at what I was use and it is Clear Finger Nail Hardener.

dannycrlsn · Post by **dannycrlsn** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:21 pm

To help with the itching and getting to sleep take 2 benadryl tablets before you go to bed. Benadryl will stop the itching and will also make you drowsy and you'll sleep all night

SAWBRIAR · Post by **SAWBRIAR** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:07 am

scratch'em till they bleed spray either(starting fluid) on them or rub pipe cleaner on them when i use to trim tree's we would gett'em so bad they looked like they would be making bumps on top of bumps they would cover your body and they ant no place you want treat because the itch is so intence i've even rubed pipe cleaner on my privates to get releif, man it make's you jump higher and run faster than you've ever ran before ha! ha! lol but it will make the itch go away.

danny vansickle · Post by **danny vansickle** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:59 am

SAWBRIAR wrote:scratch'em till they bleed spray either(starting fluid) on them or rub pipe cleaner on them when i use to trim tree's we would gett'em so bad they looked like they would be making bumps on top of bumps they would cover your body and they ant no place you want treat because the itch is so intence i've even rubed pipe cleaner on my privates to get releif, man it make's you jump higher and run faster than you've ever ran before ha! ha! lol but it will make the itch go away.

GOODNESS GRACIOUS GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wilson · Post by **Wilson** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:00 pm

Here is what helped me. A few weeks ago I got ate up by them darn things. I have had them before but never like this. I was about to go CRAZY. The chiggerex the nail polish and the bleech bath had never worked for me. I usually just suffer for a few days, but I was looking through the cabinet for anything that might give me some relief,and I found a bottle of Healer Hand Lotion that I bought from Walgreens. It has a stong mixture of ammonia in it. Let me tell you up front it burns like FIRE for about 10 seconds and relieves the itching for several hours. I could take the pain better than the itching. If you try it let me know how it works for you.

danny vansickle · Post by **danny vansickle** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:37 pm

Wilson wrote:Here is what helped me. A few weeks ago I got ate up by them darn things. I have had them before but never like this. I was about to go CRAZY. The chiggerex the nail polish and the bleech bath had never worked for me. I usually just suffer for a few days, but I was looking through the cabinet for anything that might give me some relief,and I found a bottle of Healer Hand Lotion that I bought from Walgreens. It has a stong mixture of ammonia in it. Let me tell you up front it burns like FIRE for about 10 seconds and relieves the itching for several hours. I could take the pain better than the itching. If you try it let me know how it works for you.

did you get them when you and kevin ran out at belleville?

they are viscious out there,always have been.

windy hollow · Post by **windy hollow** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:02 pm

I got chiggers so bad and on sunday I got a good hot shower in the morning and put that skin so soft on my legs and arms and all over my body, went running hounds all day, and didnt get any ticks or any more chiggers and the ones I already had quit itching. I'm a believer !