Chigger bites.

[phxmark123]

Ok, this isn't to hard to figure out, before detecting use Off or Repel. Its a must before mowing my lawn in Texas. But I know sometimes we are "itching" to get out there and detect and are tunnelvisioned. I learned my lesson yesterday.(scratch....scratch...)

 

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[MissyW72]

My favorite all time remedy is to take a slice of raw potato and just hold it on the bite. Supposedly it draws the poison out. Kinda stings if the skin is raw, but it does seem to help.

2nd fave remedy is to put a little emu oil on the bite. Emu oil is really incredible - not cheap, but darn good stuff.
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WOW is there nothing those potatoes won't do!!!

 

[kstephe]

This is the very best remedy for chiggers.

Selsun Blue or any Dandruff Shampoo with Selenium Sulfide. Anytime that I think I have been in contact with chiggers, when i get home I take a shower and shampoo my whole body with Selsun Blue. You will feel the shampoo working in a couple of minutes. A doctor friend, that love's the outdoors, told me about this. I have tried everything and this really works. If you wait till the next day, there is nothing that will work.

 

[Cynangyl]

I don't know if anybody else has this happen; if I go out and haven't gotten a tan yet I get attacked by skeeters and chiggers. Once I have developed a tan, they leave me alone. Don't know why but that's the way it is.

okay that does it....gonna be tanning every chance I get! darn skeeters ate me up when we were up at the gold claim and I tried bounce sheets, off, repel.....I usually don't get bit but they were lovin me this last weekend! Now I have the perfect excuse to work on my tan! thanks Wes! If David asks why I am laying around instead of mowing I am sending him to talk to you! hehe ~hugs~

 

[lFoundlInlOhiol]

Before you go out, put panty hose under your socks !!!They cant get threw them...
And yes i know the feeling,I have poison Ivy! Seems like i look at it and catch it!!

Good luck on your finds!!

 

[wesfrye53]

SEnd him on Cyn...I had no less than 20 skeeters flying around my legs when I went outside a while ago...not a single bit. If you can stand my legs I'll try and take a pic for proof.

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

You may just be right Wes, I have the best tan of my life this year and they say the ticks are nasty, so are the skeeters ( I really hope we don't have those awful sounding chiggers around here) and I havn't been bitten by anything. Hmmm hope the sun is out tomarrow, bug control ya know. See sis bug control that's all!

 

[BigRon]

I spent the best part of my 22nd summer at a place called Ft. Benning GA. A buddy of mine ate a tsp. of fours of sulphur each morning. I don't recall if it worked but it made him smell like a match.

 

[BuckleBoy]

That would mean a 500 hundred mile drive. LOL. I think I'll deal with them right at home.

Buy a big-a$$ carton of SALT at WallyWorld for 59 cents and pour that whole damm thing in a bathtub full of water

 

[Kas]

I'm a couple of weeks into these chigger bites, almost gone.

I went to the doctor and got a shot of cortisone. Itch gone, bites going away.

 

[Cynangyl]

I am so glad to hear that your chigger bites are better! My mosquito bites are making me nuts! Then Wes told me tan and no bites and I was all prepared to work on my tan today and it is pouring down rain!! I live in the desert...it never rains!

 

[Baggins]

I have found that if before you go out detecting, take an old tube sock, fill it with sulphur, tie off the end, and use it like a Rosen bag....tap your legs, socks, jeans, and it should keep them away...This is how we do it in North Texas at the ranch....
Baggins

 

[morbiusandneo]

I have found that if before you go out detecting, take an old tube sock, fill it with sulphur, tie off the end, and use it like a Rosen bag....tap your legs, socks, jeans, and it should keep them away...This is how we do it in North Texas at the ranch....
Baggins

Hi Baggins!! What is a "Rosen bag" and how is it used? (ignorant boy from illinois askin...

 

[Baggins]

A rosen bag is what pitchers use in baseball, or a bowler....you just sort of swat it, and the sulphur comes through the sock, applying it to yourself....
Sean

 

[UnEarthed72]

I've been trekking through the woods all my life,mosquito's,poison ivy never seemed to affect or bother me.The only bothersome irritating things are those damned horse flies even with bug spray they are persistant.

 

[Kas]

I've been trekking through the woods all my life,mosquito's,poison ivy never seemed to affect or bother me.The only bothersome irritating things are those damned horse flies even with bug spray they are persistant.

Me either, until now.

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

You should ask Kindafoundabuckle what his experience with chiggers was like this summer Hehehe.

Regards,

Buckleboy

I have got into the worst chiggers this past summer. I think they must drink from a nuclear waste site. I can be driving down the road and the "itch" will hit me like a truck. I have to pull off the side of the road and start scratching my ankles. If I had a wire brush I would use it to scratch with! I have tried all the meds and folk remedies I can think of but NOTHING works. I sprayed automotive starting fluid on one spot in desperation one day at work it burned like fire but it was better than the itch. Any suggestions because I will be back in the field where the little buggers are waiting for me today. Its like the old cartoon where the mosquitos attack the man on his front porch like a air force unit for those who remember that one. Great cartoon!

Tom

Try :
Chig-a-Rid (http://www.shopinprivate.com/chigchigrel.html)

also: http://www.chigarid.com/


For the itch, try dabbing milk on the itchy areas. It does sooth the itch, but is not very long lasting.

I have had chiggers before, no fun at all.

Ray S

 

[bedpanmoneyman]

I have once this year. Put liquid bandage or use fingernail polish on them to stop the itching.

BPMM