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Chigger remedies?

Give 'em to me please.

Go the the Shawnee National Forest they said. Hike the Buttermilk trail they said...

I've always reacted badly to chiggers but Lord I'm coated with the damn things now - probably 70 bites. Itch like the dickens - phuck my luck. I want to crawl into - and become one with - a den of angry, epileptic porcupines.

Nothing I've tried in the past has worked to relieve the subject itch, but I'll try anything now. So go ahead - tell me what works for you - I beseech thee...

Give 'em to me please. Go the the Shawnee National Forest they said. Hike the Buttermilk trail they said... I've always reacted badly to chiggers but Lord I'm coated with the damn things now - probably 70 bites. Itch like the dickens - phuck my luck. I want to crawl into - and become one with - a den of angry, epileptic porcupines. Nothing I've tried in the past has worked to relieve the subject itch, but I'll try anything now. So go ahead - tell me what works for you - I beseech thee...

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[–] • 6 pts

Check your local pharmacy for an electronic bug bite device. They have a tip that applies heat to the bite area. The idea is that the intense local heat denatures the toxins/venom/irritant and the molecules physically change shape so they no longer fit into the receptors on your nerve endings. I use them on mosquito and ant bites with good success. Never used them on chigger bites, but it should work the same.

[–] • 2 pts

Going to check this out. The nail polish/Chiggerrid approach never worked for me. Have had some success with a modified version of the soak method mentions, but I'm infested. Bugs - mosquitoes, chiggers and ticks - seem to really like me, and I've always had bad reactions to all of them. No worries about me eating ze bugs when they in fact are eating me.

Thanks!

[–] • 1 pt

I asked around some kin, as much vinegar as you can stand mixed in a bath and soak, they don't know why that works though, I figure the vinegar is opening your pores and irritating the chiggers while disinfecting any wounds.

If you still have chiggers after a couple of soaks you should just go get an anti parasitic treatment, you will shit your guts out and any bubble gum you might have swallowed in the last 30 years if its the dame stuff as it was so hydrate properly.

[–] • 1 pt

Hopefully you killed them all, you should soak again soon, their eggs will hatch before long and the itch starts all over.

As for the bugs loving you take a vitamin B12 supplement a few hours before heading into nature, I don't think anything will repel chiggers just stay away from Queen Anne's Lace, otherwise known as chigger weed. You can put a chelated b12 pill in font of windows and doors to repel ants and other insects, not all of them will be effected and the thing rotting in the sun is ugly as sin but we left a bill in front of every entrance and had no ants or other intruders after they had begun to break down and we left them there for years. I've got powdered b12 of the healthier type now I should check if that works too.

Mosquitoes will love you if you've eaten a banana recently, I'm guessing the potassium incites them but it could be something else.

If you soak again try adding a couple cap-fulls of vinegar, that's the bottles cap or just like two table spoons at most.

I think I've also heard of toothpaste, mud and spot treating the infested skin with like a medicine cup filled with vinegar held onto the skin.

The goal is always the same, deprive the chiggers of oxygen and their young. And the unhatched eggs they've laid, I'll ask around some more if anybody remembers what else my great grandparents said to do for them.

[–] • 3 pts

Permethrin is only thing that works for me for chiggers and I've tried every remedy I could find what with owning some river properties and a literal swamp that are infested with them.

Permethrin is an insecticide that is labeled to work best for whatever causes scabies and lice but does come in a cream that you can get as a prescription. Docs dont like to prescribe it very much bc for some retarded reason the instructions always say cover entire body with it which would probably do more harm than good as dangerous chems leak into your body. It can easily be found online and if you decide to use I recommend just applying a little bit to affected areas a few times a day. If I recall correctly the itch would go away the first time using and all accompanying red spots and hints of scarring will be gone within 7-10 days.

It will prevent their eggs from hatching and feeding on your body while their excrement causes uncomfortable itching. The relief from this can be felt from first application.

It also comes in a liquid form that can be bought from feed stores and used in sprayers to cover large areas of fields or around your home. I have seen smaller bottles with a little pump top as well that you can spray on your clothing or tents. I have not tried those bc it's cheaper to grab a gallon of it and water it down as necessary for whatever application you need it for. Good luck bro

Oh and to add along, I saw that nail polish was mentioned. Iirc it may kill the adult but doesn't effect the eggs so in a day or 2 you will itch again as they hatch and begin to breed. Idk the science behind it for sure but nail polish didn't work for me. Oils such as rosemary and peppermint did help the itch same as everclear/vodka or rubbing alcohol applied with a soaked cotton ball but did not knock the basterds out in any significant way

[–] • 2 pts

Before you go out again, soak your clothes and let them dry with a soaking of permethrin. I've used sawyer products brand for probably a decade. I think I've gotten maybe 3 ticks in that time, and I have property inndawoods

[–] • 2 pts

The remedies passed down to me by grandparents were to soak in warm water for ad long as you can stand, you're gonna drown the buggers nesting in your pores, the other option is nail polish or super glue.

[–] • 1 pt

My old advice, and what we used to do, was put nail polish over them.

It always seemed to work, when I was a kid.

That being said, Google says nail polish doesn't work, so maybe it was a placebo?

Taking a small dose of diphenhydramine (Benadryl) might work.

But I find that itchiness is transferable, if you write a good enough poem about getting bitten by bugs, and read it to someone else, they will start scratching, and suddenly, you will be at peace.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

... if you write a good enough poem

Yes but what rhymes with chigger? But I came here to say nail polish.

Benadryl - two tabs for adult dose knocks me out, but half the dose at twice the frequency keeps me ambulatory. 2 every 4-6 hours: nap time 1 every 2-3 hours: works pretty well

[–] • 0 pt

I read a story recently here on Poal I believe about a correlation between benadryl and Alzheimer, you should look into that.

[–] • 0 pt

Have you ever read about Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) abuse?

[–] • 1 pt

Recently saw something but don't recall. It works. I use it sparingly. It is an old drug - so I like that.

Was that with Tylenol in the, um, antibiotic resistance maybe? Link that shit.

[–] • 1 pt

Gasoline...

[–] • 1 pt

...and a match.

[–] • 0 pt

No match, that might burn a bit.

[–] • 1 pt

Well I think the best remedy would be to just exterminate them all...

Oh you said chiggers. I guess my point still stands.

[–] • 0 pt

When I know I'll be outdoors with biting insects, I try to make sure my meals before and during are high in garlic content, most of the time I'll be bite-less when my companions are covered in welts.

[–] • 0 pt

Ten cent educated guess: take benadryl, aspirin and grind it up into as fine a powder as possible. Dissolve that into 70% isopropyl making a super saturated solution and apply topically to the bites.

[–] • 0 pt

Just cover all the bumps with fingernail polish. That's what we've always done. Within a day or so they will be gone