Chigger Remedies

MasonsBeagles · Post by **MasonsBeagles** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:43 pm

Lets hear em guys and gals. They are bad. The ole nailpolish and store bought stuff aint cuttin it.

B.Trull · Post by **B.Trull** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:46 pm

Coat your legs with vaseline and wear sweat pants to bed. Also try caladryl cream which has benadryl in it also. Help pull me through the worst case this year I have ever had.

Post by **Bev** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:11 pm

The best thing I found to help topically was the Band-Aide brand gel or "Itch-X", available at about any drugstore. It used to be called Rhule or something like that. I also took Benadryl. The first 3 days were murder, by the 5th day I was almost back to human.

jackrabbit · Post by **jackrabbit** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:19 pm

i was told that amonia works great. a friend just used it on his problem and he said it worked wonders.... dont know, just passing it on.

Bopeye · Post by **Bopeye** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:54 pm

I wish I would have seen this thread a couple weeks ago. I've scratched so much that I look like I have leprosy.

Hunt6 · Post by **Hunt6** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:57 pm

As a prenventive before you get em....Go to Wal Mart and get some Repel Permanone and follow the directions .Good stuff.I use it on any clothes I run dogs in or clothes I work on food plots with.
Hunt6 (David)

CHAD_PLUNKETT · Post by **CHAD_PLUNKETT** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:47 am

Permanone works awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! I use it all the time and hardly ever get anything on me. A friend of mine told me about it about 4 years ago and been using it ever since.

PLUNKETT'S KENNEL SUPPLIES

GT · Post by GT » Tue Jul 29, 2003 10:09 am

When you return from a day in the field ,when you forgot to use any kind of repellent, bathe with Octagon soap and you will take care of the chigger problem.

Brian from Mi. · Post by **Brian from Mi.** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 3:35 pm

I live in Michigan but I have spent a good bit of my earlier years in Missouri.I had them really bad one summer that I stayed there.Just
reading all the post makes me glad to be a Michigander!
Brian from Mi.

kjohns · Post by **kjohns** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:06 pm

Okay, I gotta ask. What in the heck is a chigger?

bob huffman · Post by **bob huffman** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:48 pm

Have ya ever been bit by a bee?? LOL Well it ain't that bad but it will itch like the devil. it just keeps itchin and itchin and itchin like stinging nettles. if you never got in a patch of stinging nettles when you were young, you are missing out big time. A chigger is a little bitty bug sort of like a flea that likes to live in grass or just about anywhere outside there is vegetation. Never thought about it but guess they are only in certaian parts of the country. They are in SE Iowa bit I don't have much problem with them if you don't woller in the grass. They bite you before you feel them and the result is a whole bunch of bites that itch like mad before you can do anything about it. I have found that triple antibiotic salve helps tremedously in stopping the itch and redness and they heal much quicker.

high ridge joe · Post by **high ridge joe** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:41 pm

if i were to hear these symptoms from someone upnorth..i would say it sounded like mites....just like sarcoptic mange on a dog or dust mites in your house.....people can get the mange mites from dogs also...they seem similar to what i am reading here about chiggers...however, the recovery process is abit longer...itching can last 2 to 3 weeks....

KPrice · Post by **KPrice** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 6:12 pm

We call them redbugs down here, but I am sure we are talking about the same thing. They will itch you so bad that it is actually painful. I will wipe the area down with rubbing alcohol first, then coat it good with Calamine.

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