Advice for chigger bites that doesn't include amputation
Aug 9, 2019 09:25:02 #
Hey there, just returned from Missouri with a real crop of CHIGGER BITES from trekking 75 wild acres, then mowing grass, if you can believe it. However, my runner-up crop was from the Ocala Forest when hiking to a fishing pond through tall grass. I know the best solution is PREVENTION, so how do you do that successfully? Also, what do you do with the masses of bites afterward? I finally had to get a corticosteroid cream. Any great ideas? Thanks for any help.
Aug 9, 2019 10:24:52 #
Skeeter dope on your shoes, socks and legs as high up as the grass and weeds.
But scratching them feels mighty good sometimes.
But scratching them feels mighty good sometimes.
Aug 9, 2019 10:41:38 #
Aug 9, 2019 10:46:55 #
Welcome to the Forum, Suz. You will find that you will get a lot of good advise on the Forum and some not so good. You will have to pick and choose. A buddy of mine put gasoline on his chigger bites and then lit them on fire. He said they felt better after they had quit burning. I don't know, I think that is a dumb thing to do.
Aug 9, 2019 15:00:52 #
fishrmans
Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl
Most of the time you just have to put up with the itching for about a week. Try a little hand sanitizer on them. Seems to help for me.
Aug 9, 2019 15:23:46 #
Mcbulldog
Loc: Rogersville Tennessee
I have found if you dab some fingernail polish on them it works really well. Clear is the best
Aug 9, 2019 15:41:23 #
fishrmans
Loc: Waushara Cnty Wisconsin and Port Charlotte Fl
Best thing is to avoid them. Spray with a good repellant, don’t wear any good smelling stuff like after shave or cologne. They seem to like the sweet smells.
Aug 9, 2019 16:47:30 #
So when anyone sends that cure for bites might try it on fire ant bites. Scratching them open and killing the poison with alcohol followed by cortisone has been my temp relief.
Aug 9, 2019 19:19:42 #
alfrmtn
Loc: East TN
The clear fingernail polish is what we used as the bite is actually a small big buried in the skin and the polish smothers it. Least that’s what we was told but it does work.
Aug 10, 2019 07:11:21 #
Raw Dawg Ron
Loc: St. Petersburg, FL
Liquid Bandaid stuff! Good to suffocate the little buggers and their baby`s making you itch like mad! Fingernail polish works but falls off too soon, gotta kill baby chiggers from emerging on second day too! Ouch
Aug 10, 2019 07:39:33 #
BobbyJ
Loc: Texas
I recently took a vinegar shower by wiping down with plain white vinegar after trekking through an area that is known for chiggers. I wa pleasantly surprised that it seemed to work. I only had one bite and I guess it was in an area that I didn’t cover well.
Aug 10, 2019 11:44:04 #
REDNECK
Loc: Sanford Florida
True, not a bite but a bug. I was raised in the swamps of Lake Jesup and we kept a jar of bacon grease
to put on the red bugs. Grandma said that it was the salt that soaked into your skin that killed them.
Worked.
to put on the red bugs. Grandma said that it was the salt that soaked into your skin that killed them.
Worked.
Aug 10, 2019 12:35:21 #
FixorFish
Loc: SW Oregon
A chigger " bite" is really an "invasion". The chigger digs in at the base of a hair. The "itch" is that little bastard wiggling around. The best way to kill'em is the suffocation method. Used clear nail polish as a child. I now use "New Skin", the liquid bandage. Like previously stated, it stays on better than the nail polish, since it's flexible. For large areas or "places" (lol) impractical to "paint", Vaseline works, though a bit messy (dedicated boxers... again...lol).
I must admit, I miss my friends and family back in Kansas, but I thank God, we don't have chiggers in So. Oregon...or air you can wear. I plan my trips accordingly, see ya in the fall after the first hard freeze, you know, when the Chiefs are playing !
I must admit, I miss my friends and family back in Kansas, but I thank God, we don't have chiggers in So. Oregon...or air you can wear. I plan my trips accordingly, see ya in the fall after the first hard freeze, you know, when the Chiefs are playing !
Aug 10, 2019 12:46:03 #
Aug 10, 2019 13:02:02 #
FixorFish
Loc: SW Oregon
Hehehe, yeah, I have heard that line soooo many times in the past 35yrs ! In reference to soooo many subjects. But hey, it works, it's relevant... AND it's funny.
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