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.
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!
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.
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.
That's an awesome idea!
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