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I've lived in chigger country all my life and have tried the remedies, none of which work. Endure three or four days of agonizing reappraisal and itching, at which point the discomfort subsides considerably. Best to use insect repellent if you even suspect you're in chigger territory. I'm pretty sure anywhere in the South is overwhelmingly chigger country. A few people don't get bit for some reason, but chiggers love most folks. they don't bother me, and i don't get bit by skeeters much.
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Scratch em til they bleed. Since you can't find Chigger-Rid anymore, this is the only relief I know of.
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The chigger is long gone, the itching is a reaction to the chigger bite. Use a OTC steroid cream if you have one and an antihistamine should help as well if it's bad. Yup!! And lesson learned that when you move away from those playful fields and back to the house a Clorox shower is your friend.
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Dab fingernail polish on the red spots. The itching will stop quickly.
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You just gota wait until they stop itching. Stay out of the sun ,hot weather makes them itch worse. Funny i was at a friends house 2 hrs ago and he had gotten eat up with them this weekend.he wasn't to happy.
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Stylostome is the cause of the itch.
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Chiggers and ticks are the bane of all people who love the outdoors. For some reason it seems as if the two of them don't bother me much. I can go into the same area as my buds and they will get eaten alive while I will only get a bite or two. Perhaps it's my body odor?
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Anything applied so they cannot breath and the problems will be 10 times less. Otherwise use OFF on your clothing and skin.
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When you get a chigger bite, the chigger is still in the skin where they bit you.
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As slum and DW said the chigger has vacated and what's left behind is Stylostome. Takes about 2 weeks for the larvae to be done with you.
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I'm VERY allergic to them. I have literally tried all the popular stuff. That said, prevention is the key... I try to ALWAYS spray with some deep woods off EVERY time I get out of the truck. This takes care of 99.9%. The odd chigger bite I do get (sweated off the OFF) I can take car of with Tea Tree Oil.... this stuff is the cat's ass on bites... I can put a dab on a bite twice a day and by day 2 or 3 it's almost healed.
Tea Tree Oil is at CVS or Walgreens... best product out there by far.
If you get several hundred bites, just suck it up and get a light steroid shot... Benadryl will work for slightly less severe cases.
Last edited by Sasha_and_Abby; 09/05/17.
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Might try a remedy my dad offered for crabs.
A mirror placed on the floor. Squat naked over it and crabs jump right on it when they think it's a new ass.
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Chigger Rid. They Sell It at CVS. If It Cost $500 A Bottle It Would Be a Buy... I Hate Them S.O.B.
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Say what you want about this post but I have been to the buggiest jungles of Costa Rica several times and I always used Avon's skin so soft, which protected me from every kind of gnarly insect invasion you can imagine. Never knowingly tried it against ants, which I believe to be man's deadliest enemy if you're on the ground. I still use it to this day even here. Preventative measure of course. And it attracts the best looking doe!! 
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Got literally hundreds of bites on my ankles and feet a few years ago. I was darn miserable. My best advice is to just cope with them as best you can. Allow yourself to scratch for a day and then tough it out.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Calamine is good for the itching. One thing for sure the scratching will scar you. But then chicks dig scars right? Maybe chiggers dig scars as well. 
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Geez. Nothing like that here.
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No longer known as 'chiggers'.
They are now 'insects of color' to you... lol
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Campho-Phenique pain and itch antiseptic, works wonders!
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