The American Beagler Forum

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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.


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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.

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.

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

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.

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....

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.