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Prevention is the best cure. Pull up your pants leg, spray the area between the tops of your shoes, socks and any bare skin between the tops of your socks and the knees. Then drop your pants legs and spray the lower half of your pants legs. Then when you get home take a shower and thoroughly scrub everything below the waist.
When we were kids we got a dose of lighter fluid on the bites to kill the red bugs. I know by the time that happens the chiggers are already gone but that was the home grown remedy at the time.
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You guys that are saying they are already gone after they bite you, are wrong. They will dig in like a tick. Then when you scratch them, they just move to another spot. One time I had to pull them off om my son's nut sack with a pair of tweezers. They were like ticks. If the little f uckers were a half inch long, they would rule the world. I do believe a beach bath helps a lot. But getting them off of you is the best. And you might need help! LOL!
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https://chiggerex.com/ I have done the bleach bath, wiped the bite w alcohol and everything else. The medication works best for me. Almost three full pages before someone suggested it. Chiggerex is what I use and it works. One container lasts a long time too.
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Chiggerid... like clear nail polish, but thicker & more flexible... didn't stop the itch though... 2 or 3 days My Ass!, 2 weeks of Hell!... 200+ bites, covered from mid chest down with Arkysaw Chiggers... fever, lost 15 lbs... helpful lady from the state office told me to take an epsom salt bath & wash my clothes as soon as possible next time i think i might have been exposed to them miserable sonsabitches... oz of prevention worth 10 pounds of cure...
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https://chiggerex.com/ I have done the bleach bath, wiped the bite w alcohol and everything else. The medication works best for me. 10% BENZOCAINE! 😳
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They’re less than 0.5mm long, and they actually feed on your inner skin. Note Slum’s reference to the stylostome. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombiculahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylostome
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Brown Mule chewing tobacco! Yepp... Or Cope in a pinch.
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You guys that are saying they are already gone after they bite you, are wrong. They will dig in like a tick. Then when you scratch them, they just move to another spot. One time I had to pull them off om my son's nut sack with a pair of tweezers. They were like ticks. If the little f uckers were a half inch long, they would rule the world. I do believe a beach bath helps a lot. But getting them off of you is the best. And you might need help! LOL! You were probably dealing with seed ticks. We used to have them bad but the fire ants showed up and the seed ticks disappeared. Not near as many big ticks either.
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+1 for clear fingernail polish--- itching stops almost immediately and its gone in a couple days
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I found the best remedy to chiggers is to move.
Pretty sure they're proof that God has a sense of humor.
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You guys that are saying they are already gone after they bite you, are wrong. They will dig in like a tick. Then when you scratch them, they just move to another spot. One time I had to pull them off om my son's nut sack with a pair of tweezers. They were like ticks. If the little f uckers were a half inch long, they would rule the world. I do believe a beach bath helps a lot. But getting them off of you is the best. And you might need help! LOL! JFC what time does Wagon Trail come on?
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Chiggers don't burrow in. They bite, inject saliva that dissolve skin cell which they feed on.
The itch is an allergic reaction to their saliva.
Anyway, I just put on hand sanitizer, the alcohol type. It seems to reduce the itch, and helps heal the bite area.
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A good coating of earwax seems to get rid of em rite quick!
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Fingerrnail polish helps. I think it stops clothes from brushing against the bite sites and irritating them.
Chigger rid is pretty good. Use whatever works for you on them but a dose of antihistamine will really help- especially when trying to sleep.
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You guys that are saying they are already gone after they bite you, are wrong. They will dig in like a tick. Then when you scratch them, they just move to another spot. One time I had to pull them off om my son's nut sack with a pair of tweezers. They were like ticks. If the little f uckers were a half inch long, they would rule the world. I do believe a beach bath helps a lot. But getting them off of you is the best. And you might need help! LOL! ^^^^^ 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Prevention is the best cure. Pull up your pants leg, spray the area between the tops of your shoes, socks and any bare skin between the tops of your socks and the knees. Then drop your pants legs and spray the lower half of your pants legs. Then when you get home take a shower and thoroughly scrub everything below the waist.
When we were kids we got a dose of lighter fluid on the bites to kill the red bugs. I know by the time that happens the chiggers are already gone but that was the home grown remedy at the time. Permethrin is the best. Pretreatment clothing, this means boots, socks, pants and let dry. This stuff beats anything deet by a long shot. Picardin if you want something right on the skin.
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I found the best remedy to chiggers is to move.
Pretty sure they're proof that God has a sense of humor. Problem is they're almost worldwide.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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I used to get them all of the time as a child in the Everglades, dad gave me Kwell lotion (Permethrin is a medication and an insecticide.[3][4] As a medication, it is used to treat scabies and lice.[5] It is applied to the skin as a cream or lotion.[3] As an insecticide, it can be sprayed onto outer clothing or mosquito nets to kill the insects that touch them.[4][6])
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I used to get them all of the time as a child in the Everglades, dad gave me Kwell lotion (Permethrin is a medication and an insecticide.[3][4] As a medication, it is used to treat scabies and lice.[5] It is applied to the skin as a cream or lotion.[3] As an insecticide, it can be sprayed onto outer clothing or mosquito nets to kill the insects that touch them.[4][6]) Repels the hell out of them too. I combine permethrin, picardin and my Thermacell when spring turkey hunting or squirrel hunting in early summer. Rarely have issues with flying or crawling biting insects.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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