Chiggers (no see um,s) home remedies?
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houndsnmules
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chiggers
go to your doctor's office and get a shot of depamedrol or dexamethsone and the bites will be gone in less than a week with no icthing.
Jaime
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rabbithunter1958
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Chiggers
Natsy but works. Put vasoline around your waste an ankels before leaving your house. Very thin layer works great. Never had that bproblem except when squirell hunting. Friend told me about it and it works. The seven dust will work. But being an ex pest controll service man,I can tell you to use seven dust or any other poisen on your skin or clotheing can cause blood poisoning.
Rabbithunter
Rabbithunter
A bad day hunting or fishing. Is always better than a good day doing anything else.
This has to be one of the funniest things I've ever read.warddog wrote:Well Southern, what I do burns like HELL-o as well but it seems to take the itch out for me. I scratch them till they bleed and while digging them to the bone I start the bathtub running full of the hottest water I can stand. I then put a heavy amount of SALT in the water and stir it up to dissolve. I then plunk my big butt into the hot salt water and lay back like a beached whale while the tears run down the cheeks of my face and the cheeks of my butt get blood red from the hot water. Man when all that quits hurting I must forget about the chiggers as they don't even itch any more.
I got into some chiggers at Silver Creek about 3 years ago. Like y'all, I know I had at least 100 bites, and them critters had worked themselves up almost to the "nether regions." I'm sure the public wouldn't think much about me diggin' at my shins, but... anyway, for 4 days I thought I was gonna die, and was afraid I wouldn't.
I still hate David Reilly's Major dog to this day because of this, (dern those Blackcreeks) because I was running him with my Maxx dog in the pen there when I got into the chiggers. (naw, I'm just kiddin' - Major was a cool dog).
Warddog, I would have given you every penny I had to have known your remedy at the time, and the experience has answered my life-long question about what Hell is really like. I did learn an interesting fact about chiggers, though...not that it will do any of us any good from a practical standpoint. Chiggers can be concentrated in a one square foot of grass and non existent in the next square foot. The way to find out if chiggers are present is to stand a white piece of paper up in the grass, and if they are present, they will hop on the piece of paper like a magnet. (like we're all gonna walk around in the field with a sheet of 20-lb white bond copy paper).
The best prevention I've seen is what Rita Butler does (who coincidently, ((or may be not coincidently)), is a member of Silver Creek Beagle Club) which is wrap duct tape around the bottom opening of her jeans before getting out in the weeds. This lady not only runs dogs, she judges field trials, so I will remember her technique next time.
