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Need some chigger relief
Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:50 am
Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:50 am
Was in the woods this weekend and the chiggers got me. Looked online for some remedies and have seen everything from fingernail polish remover to hydrogen peroxide. A bath in Epsom salt helped a little. Most of the bites are on my legs but a few on my waist and one on my chode. 
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:55 am to deaconjones35
Rubbing Alcohol
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:14 am to deaconjones35
nail polish remover for sure. The one time I picked those up, I used it.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:15 am to deaconjones35
I hate chiggers
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:20 am to deaconjones35
ALWAYS, if there is a possibility of bugs and ticks, take a bleach bath. Always..
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:28 am to deaconjones35
I had some chiggers get me bad once when squirrel hunting. Did the alcohol thing and soaking in hot bath. Took benydril and that realy helped me with the itching.
On a side note, I was squirrel hunting in southern Indiana. The locals I was hunting with called them deer lice, I told them it was chiggers( red bugs), not deer lice.
On a side note, I was squirrel hunting in southern Indiana. The locals I was hunting with called them deer lice, I told them it was chiggers( red bugs), not deer lice.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:37 am to doublecutter
Just used an alcohol pad...helped a little. First time I got bit in over 20 years. I forgot to put spray on before I started trimming branches. Here's a fun fact....did you know that chiggers are red (obviously, they are called red bugs)....but after they chew on human flesh, they turn yellow. :csb:
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:39 am to deaconjones35
Clorox bath......
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:59 am to CBLSU316
I have lots of experience with this and this is what I've found to work 100% of the time. Scratch the shite out of the bites. If they are bleeding or pus filled, then that's even better. Then apply a 5 to 1 mix of water and bleach with a cotton ball to each bite. Do the application every 2 hours for a day. After day 1, put chigarid on the bumps that still itch.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:02 am to deaconjones35
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:21 am to KingRanch
quote:
I hate chiggers
And hitting them with alcohol only makes them more bothersome to me.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:28 am to deaconjones35
If they're really bad, go to one of those walk in clinics and get a shot and some hydroxizine pills
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:40 am to deaconjones35
I had chiggers a few months back. It was horrible. I uses absorbine, jr. It helped the most out of everything I tried.
From what I understand you just have to wait them out and treat the itching.
From what I understand you just have to wait them out and treat the itching.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:45 am to dfontenot
I had them bad a month ago and the absorbtine jr actualy helped releive the itching.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 10:43 am to Ole Geauxt
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ALWAYS, if there is a possibility of bugs and ticks, take a bleach bath. Always..
Reminds me of when we were kids in south Alabama, mama would put us in a #2 washtub with bleach water to kill the chiggers. We were always gettin eat up pickin blackberries and eatin wild plums. As bad as them little critters are, I hate them Arkansas seed ticks even more. They are, for sure, the devil's spawn.
This post was edited on 9/15/14 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 9/15/14 at 10:59 am to deaconjones35
Time and not scratching. I had them bad a few years ago.
All these home remedies are mostly bs. Will power>pouring something like winded in the area
All these home remedies are mostly bs. Will power>pouring something like winded in the area
Posted on 9/15/14 at 11:03 am to BFIV
I get chiggers so often that, honestly, they don't even bug me anymore. I've got about 10-12 bites right now from yesterday while I was trimming out bow stands. I've tried to spray down but I always seem to still get a few. I've gotten to the point where I just ignore them (no scratching) until they go away. I've had a couple of TERRIBLE poison ivy rashes when I was a kid (one lasted 5 weeks) and I'm pretty much pyschologically immune to itch now, haha.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 11:49 am to deaconjones35
Chiggers annoy me.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 11:53 am to Jones
quote:
Time and not scratching. I had them bad a few years ago.
All these home remedies are mostly bs.
Cortizone , benedryl to help with the itching, but just like posion ivy it just has to run its course
the best treatment is avoidance and quickly washing the affected area
Posted on 9/15/14 at 12:14 pm to Jones
quote:
Time and not scratching
Not an option. I'm scratching. I don't have the willpower.
Been rubbing alcohol and Benadryl itch relief. Seems to be helping.
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