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+1 on After Bite.

Not a fan of fire ant bites too.

Soda paste, then Chigger rid , better than finger nail polish.

Soak in a warm bath with about a quarter cup of pine o pine.

I never get one. 50 to 100 at a time and they ALWAYS get infected. Need Steroid shot and pills to get over. Having said that PERMITHRIN is the answer. Spray it on your clothes, etc... Lasts for 6 weeks or 6 washes. I swear by it.

Is that like pine sol?

Bleach bath to help dry em up

Sawyers Premethrine on clothes religiously and you wont be in the bleach bath

Yes

yep on the sawyers, I use it religiously. no chiggers. but if you do, clorox bleach seems to help.

Thinking maybe a propane torch.

Or diphenhydramine cream, or this stuff.

https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/fda/fdaDrugXsl.cfm?setid=8372e7c1-f145-4bc5-85ab-cf831abe70ce

Or anything similar.

Use treated clothing and topical insect repellent and you will reduce the chance of getting bit.

Decent chance what a lot of people think are chigger bites are bites from young ticks, what are often called turkey mites. In early stages they don't stay latched on.

This is the only correct answer so far.

The chigger doesn’t die after it bites you, it doesn’t stick around either. Nail polish and all that other stuff are wives tails. Hydrocortisone will help relieve the itch.

Chigg away:

https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/fda/fdaDrugXsl.cfm?setid=8372e7c1-f145-4bc5-85ab-cf831abe70ce

In the South, we use clear nail polish. After that's on and a few hours pass, you'll forget you had them.

We tried the nail polish thing. All it did was kill the chiggers, but left the itch.

1) a bath in water as hot as you can stand it. Put a couple of capfuls of "Pinesol" in the water seemed to kill the critters AND the itch!
2) again, a shower as hot as you can stand it. Soap up REAL good. ALL over. Pay special attention to groin, genitals, butt crack, arm pits and any other skin folds!
Use a harsh wash rag to break loose any that may not be embedded yet.

When I was seven years old, my dad took me fishing at a small farm pond. I had on jockey shorts, tennis shoes and overalls.
Any where clothing restricted, chiggers gathered!
The top of my socks. Around the legs and waist band of my jockey shirts and where the overall straps crossed on my back loaded up with the things.
Dad got eaten alive!
I got an infestation that actually caused me to run a fever! I was one sick little dude!

I'll wade off into almost anything, but if I fear there may have been chiggers, I'll hang my clothes in the sun outside and immediately take a hot shower! It won't always get all of them, but it sure reduces the "population"! 🤯

YMMV!

If you don't scratch them they heal up in 2 or 3 days. Hard to do.

Good God. Black flies. I am from Georgia, never heard of black flies. We went camping in Quetico Patk, Ontario, and the black flies chewed my ass up. I must have tasted good.

Kerosene/Diesel fuel.




GR

Find or make some real lye soap

Warm/hot bath with that and they're gone.
Get em in my socks and around the belt line.

The soap works for those teeny seed ticks
that prefer to work over your scr ote in the
spring and summer

I'm with 2ndwind & rong on this one...more is better...a wire wheel on my mini grinder has crossed my mind...pickle juice has worked for me...not sure if it's the cold or the juice...but pre-treat with Permethrin keeps them from startimg

Nail polish is the best thing to use