Chiggers

[Doofy]

We have used a Q-Tip with a drop of Clorox on each bite to take away itch and to disinfect. We have White-Sox (biting fly) that bites you and then turns around and craps in the wound. The bites itch and tend to get infected if not treated.

 

[oldballs]

You'd think that a guy with the name "Rambo" wouldn't be bothered by a little chigger.:laughing:

Cheers,
Mike

 

[dmccarty]

I have tried every thing that has been mentioned on this thread, but one, and that is onion/vinegar idea which I would try. In Australia, they have bottles of vinegar on the beaches to use for jelly fish stings so that might work on Chiggers.

Having said that, the only thing that has worked for me has been oral and topical antihistamines. Even then, scratching the heck out of the bites has helped quite a bit.

Overtime, I do seem to have developed less of a reaction to the bites from these devil spawn.

Later,
Dan

 

[om21braz]

As kids with several hundred acres of pine trees to roam through, my cousin and I seem to find plenty of chiggers. We always got a dose of NP27 athletes foot lotion or turpentine. Seemed to work well at the time, but it was that or nothing at all. Fortunately I have not found any in years.

 

[k0ua]

Here is Southwest Missouri, chiggers are a way of life in the summer months. You just don't go out off pavement without spraying with deet or something to repel them. Pictures of people laying out on their lawns are a fantasy to us. You just don't do that. Ever. A walk thru the woods before frost will have you covered in both chiggers and ticks unless you spray up.

 

[Diggin It]

I hate these things. I despise them. Mowed some waist high weeds with the walk behind brush mower and I'm broke out everywhere.



Sprays don't work for me.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
I think that the main purpose of sprays is to make you feel like you're doing something to repel them.

 

[Diggin It]

I think that the main purpose of sprays is to deplete our funds.

 

[k0ua]

I have found Deep Woods Off with Deet to be effective against both chiggers and ticks here. You have to really spray down and re-apply after a few hours.. Now as for what it does to us in the way of carcinogenic properties I can't say. I have always suspected anything that powerful can't be good for us either. Kinda like wasp spray. Highly effective. Bet it would kill people too if sprayed in their faces. I don't know this for a fact, but I sure wouldn't want to be sprayed with it. I suspect it is a close cousin to Sarin. :shocked:

 

[Diggin It]

Running a walk behind brush mower through a field of waist high weeds is a SURE fire way to get your ankles and other areas all tore up by these little devils.

Ask me how I know.

The last three days will cost me over the next week or so.