AVOID THE TREES!!!!!

[KrappieKrane]

Always heard clear fingernail polish on the bite will smother them and kill them.
Old wives tail but might work??


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Nail polish will do the trick if only a couple of spots. Liquid Skin aerosol works wonders for covering areas for chiggers, red bugs and even covering poison ivy.

[DockShootinJack]

Zinc oxide will back them out of the hole as well

[Slab]

I’m telling you, try tea tree oil. The itching should stop within 15 to 20 minutes. It’s potent stuff.


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[Slab]

Zinc oxide will back them out of the hole as well

From my readings, they’re already gone by the time you start itching. It’s the hole they left in you that itches.


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[thaDudeAbides]

I grew up in the country and never had an issue. I must have been immune because my neighbors would always complain about them! But that has faded. Now I wear deep woods Off and eliminates 99% of them. I suggest loose fitting clothing and no underwear or socks for them to hide in!

[GreenLine]

Prevention is best with deet spray but if you get some on you take vitamin B complex pills for a few days . I take double the recommend daily dose if I get some bites. . It should greatly diminish the itch.


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[CrappiePappy]

From my readings, they’re already gone by the time you start itching. It’s the hole they left in you that itches.


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You are correct, Boss !!
Contrary to popular belief, chiggers do not burrow into the skin, feed on a person’s blood, or carry disease. They feed on human skin cells, although it is only the juvenile form of the mites that do this.
When biting a human, chiggers will insert their feeding structures into the skin. Before they can eat, the chiggers inject an enzyme into the skin to liquefy the tissue. This action makes a hole in the skin, and then the skin around this hole hardens, forming a feeding tube called a stylostome.
Chiggers then feed on the destroyed tissue through this stylostome. If left undisturbed, the chiggers can feed for a couple of days.
Chiggers have delicate feeding structures. This means that they find it easier to penetrate a person’s skin where there are wrinkles, folds, or where the skin is thinnest.

[DWILL]

Well boys I'm going old school on you. As kids we were never inside and chiggers were a way of life certain times of the year. To get rid of the itch and help with skin irritation, my grandmother would fry sausage. While we're were eating, she would take a cottonball dip it in sausage grease and rub it on the chigger spots. Don't know what caused it to work, just know it worked. I know there are new medicines that work but this old home remedy does it's job. Course you smelled like breakfast all night.

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[Kevind62]

I grew up in the country and never had an issue. I must have been immune because my neighbors would always complain about them! But that has faded. Now I wear deep woods Off and eliminates 99% of them. I suggest loose fitting clothing and no underwear or socks for them to hide in!

People still wear underwear?

[Ketchn]

its a strange thing here , no rain , no chiggers , would trade for some water though , just saying
best cure , scratch em till they bleed ,,,,,