| Author | Message | ||
     Ccryder |
I will take any home brewed, country, old world, mystic, holelistic, new age, magical, medical marvel for the elimination of the itching from chiggers!!!!!!!!!! That's why I'm up at 1:00 in the AM! I've tried Chigger Go, nail polish, GOld Bond spray, 70% alcohol and Benedryl lotion but, I'm still ITCHING!! Yeah laugh now but I will put this curse on you and your ....... not really but they do itch enough to keep you awake. Later | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
Dunno how to spell it.. Camphophenique (Cam-fo-fen-eke) | ||
| Rsh |
Here is a link to a list of home remedies. http://www.myhomeremedies.com/static/chigger-bites .html | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
Got it: "Campho-Phenique helps to treat cold sores and relieves pain & itching associated with insect bites, scrapes and minor burns." | ||
| Deadduck |
bleach? works on poison ivy | ||
| Jramsey |
+1 on bleach, add 2 cups to bath water soak for 15 minutes, itch gone. | ||
| Crackhead |
Bandaid makes a clear gel that works great on them. it is alcohol or glicern based. I think it is called Anti-ich Gel | ||
| Geforce |
Let 'em eat! I have them all over my arms right now from spending an entire week out in the field running around with experimental munitions and conducting battle drills. I always tell my Soldiers to stop bitchin and "Let 'em eat!"  ...seriously can I borrow that campho when you are done? Friggin kickin my @ss to! lol | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
Clear fingernail polish is the home remedy that was recommended to me when I first encountered them here in FLA, but if that does not work, try absorbine jr. Stinky, but works for itches as well as aches. Take benadryl tablets for the itch, but make sure you know how you react to it before going for a ride on your Buell and don't mix the benadryl lotion with the tablets. The benadryl tablets make some people very drowsy. Apply plenty of deet when you plan to frolick in the areas where chiggers reside to discourage them in the first place. (Message edited by fltwistygirl on July 01, 2009) | ||
| Fast1075 |
Belinda brings up the fact that chiggers are parasites..not a reaction to something you were exposed to....they get into your pores and take up residence, feeding on blood...their saliva is what causes the problems...they breathe air...so if you paint them over with nail polish, they suffocate....eventually. Very common in Fla in the summer...and they get in the WORST places...choke em out..it takes a couple of days...no way around it...keep out of tall grass, and away from spanish moss. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Coating the area with Vaseline works too. Same principal as nail polish; chokes 'em out. | ||
| Bigdaddy |
soak in a tub w/bleach (we don't measure it just pour in a cheap gallon bottle) and fill the rest of the tub with water. I have a stand of fruit trees that are always rules by the chiggers. | ||
| Ccryder |
Thanks all. I just picked up some "Chiggerex" and Campho-Phenique and 40 DEET spray. I did the nail polish last night and that allowed me to go back to sleep. I have more work to do outside the plant today where I got them yesterday so it's time to spray me down with the DEET! It's been a few years since my last encounter, so now I'm prepared! Later Neil S. | ||
| Etennuly |
Drink large quantities of home made alcohol for a couple of days. If the little buggars are eating your blood they will get drunk and fall off. Be ware of chigger puke on your skin.  They got my ankles and lower legs last weekend. If you can avoid scratching they will not itch too bad, but once you start it is on! | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Didn't know what you were on about so had to look it up. This was very informative. http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2100.html | ||
| Dbird29 |
The only cure is OKRA. It will release pheromones thru your skin and repel those nasty chiggars.  | ||
| Ccryder |
Thx all. THat Ohio State article explains it all (although it doesn't mention Okra ;+}) | ||
| Indybuell |
Okra is the bomb.. | ||
| P_squared |
Rigger's tape (aka Duct tape) around the cuff of your trousers/boots. A VERY liberal application of DEET over every part of your body, excluding your mouth & eyes of course. And finally, some of your wife's/gf's pantyhose. That will help to minimize getting them to begin with. Once you've been bitten, the only thing that helps the itch for me is a long HOT shower with a LOT of scratching/scrubbing, followed immediately by either bleach or fingernail polish remover. Stings a wee bit, but feels much better afterwards. | ||
| Etennuly |
P.....So you are putting your pants on.....wrapping them with duct tape.....then putting the wifes pantyhose over that.....and then going outside of your house???   It is bad enough that you publicly admitted to wearing that  .....but then you went further.....to recommend it!!!  I'm sorry.....dude..... sounds like something my elder brother would do! He has allergic reactions to 'skeeter bites and such! | ||
| Spatten1 |
Leave the South. Worked for me, no chigger or mosquito bites anymore. | ||
| P_squared |
Nah, u spray down 1st, then the pantyhose, then the rigger's tape. I only admit to it 'cuz it's what a lot of us did @ Lejeune that seemed to work on a regular basis. Chiggers & Sandfleas should be exterminated from the face of the earth IMO. You'd be amazed to what a person will do/try in an effort to avoid being afflicted by them on a regular basis. | ||
| Psycrow |
This won't help with the itching but it WILL get rid of them faster than anything else and keep them from biting again. Swallow some match heads in the evening and by the next morning they will be gone! Guaranteed! Picked up this tip will serving with the 82nd. This has been field tested by many a solider at Ft Bragg NC. Its the sulfur in the match that gets in the blood and makes them die/abandon ship. Number of heads depends on your size. Id start with 3 work up from there. Im serious. Psy | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Shit, I'd have to eat a friggin' box of matches. | ||
| Geforce |
+1 Psy, learned that in my 7 years spent at Bragg here's the only catch... The sulfur found in most match heads is what you are after, and it doesn't work if you aren't sweating. Being a Paratrooper AND out in the field, you are sweating even if it's January. This trick works well as every MRE we were blessed with comes with matches, so we would suck the tips off the match heads on patrol and it does make a difference. Just remember... Sulfur + Sweat = Good but Sulfur + No Sweat = Chiggers/Ticks/Mosquitoes And I'm still itchin over here! I should follow my own advice but I thought I was immune at this point. Lies! | ||
| Teddagreek |
Don't eat matches... A lot of people are very sensitive to sulfur and don't know it.... I heard of match head thing when I was at Camp Lejeune. I rarely ever got bit, I guess I'm not sweet enough.. I was always told to wash them good and not scratch them.. http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/chigger 1.htm | ||
| Blake |
There is one and only one truly effective and satisfying treatment for those evil little critters, dip finger in water, then into table salt, then rub and rub and rub into chigger until it just starts to bleed. No more itching and the tiny freckle sized scab kills the evil little critter. The Dr. who prescribed this treatmnt strategy is one of my personal heroes. Sorry I didn't see this thread sooner! | ||
| Ccryder |
Well I tried the bleach bath last night and, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh relief at last (I also took a Benedryl tablet). I veered away from the 2 cups to ~5 cups and used a little body wash scrubber thingy all over my body. After about 20 mins I decided I was done and rinsed off and the showered. One word of caution, bleach makes the water very slippery so be careful in/ out of the tub. Even this AM they are all feeling much better. I do have to go out to the same area today for some work so I'm going to douse myself with 40% spray!!! TIme2Work Neil S. | ||
| Lovemybuellman |
when I was little my granny would put me in a bath with a cap full of bleach ..and also put clear nail polish over the.....and also eatin okra helps =) |
