What is the best thing to put on a chigger bite ? Dam things are every where this year.
Charlie

clear fingernail polish.

Soap & water & scrub

Bakin soda bath

Agree

I just get my wife to scratch the som bich. I get them every year, usually several times per year.

^^ This. Used to get them quite frequently when I was young and picking berries. Painting the red welt with nail polish was about the only thing that helped relieve the itching.


Jerry

Hydrocortisone

Brown Mule chewing tobacco!

Scratch the top off and it'll quit itching.

When I had to live in Kansas, this was the advice I was given because it kills the F’ers. For me at least, it didn’t do a damn thing for the itch.

Clear, unscented, non-sudsy household ammonia is the ticket. Dab it on the bites with finger tip, Qtip, cotton ball, etc. It also works to take the itch out of mosquito bites.


Remedy No. 3 Ammonia

This is a common ingredient found in over-the-counter bug-bite treatments such as After Bite.

However, you can use household ammonia in the same way. Just dip a cotton-tipped applicator in the ammonia and dab on the bites. Of course, this one is kind of smelly, but the odor does not usually last long and is contained by clothing.

https://www.grit.com/farm-and-garden/do-it-yourself/diy-chigger-bite-relief/

Q-tip with bleach works for me. The bug is already gone, and you are just dealing with the juice they inject into your skin. Burns a little, but it stops the itching.


Clyde

Never had a chigger bite, but was betting afterbite would work !

Don't get me started on [bleep] black flies !

Made the mistake once of going hog hunting in June in shorts.........whooo those chiggers!

It's my understanding that chiggers now prefer to be referred to as "Insects of color"..

Gotta let it run its course. By the time you feel it, the critter is dead, and your body begins to react to it, that's the itch. Takes three days for it to stop.

Every time I exit the truck in questionable territory, I spray my boots from the ankle down with Deep Woods Off. Never had a single chigger or tick bite having done so. Be careful around any painted surface, it is an excellent paint remover.

Clobetasole

I cap full of good ole' brown bottle Lysol in a hot tub of water works for me.

I remember thinking a scalpel might be an option

+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

Put a little bleach in bathtub and get em wet. They’ll die.

The bug is gone

The stylostome is what is itching, straw like tunnel thru the epidermis

Hydrocortisone, most any steroidal anti itch cream

Don't ruin the fun.

Better ta have half the 'fire wearin nail polish anklets an goin ta town thinkin they're diggin tiny Aliens outta their skin.

Go ahead w that I’ll stick w bakin sodas 😂

THIS ^^^

The best way is to wear tall boots and pants treated with permethrin (before wearing) and deet (after putting the clothes on). As has been mentioned, the bug is gone, so any post-bite treatments are really to treat the symptoms (itching). You can scratch and infect the bite site if you aren’t careful. Solutions such as nail polish, ammonia, salt, etc. are probably acting as a counter irritant and masking the itching symptoms.

Chiggers are awful and I would go to great lengths to avoid them, but they won’t kill you like a tick might. The bad news is chigger country is also tick country. The good news is the avoidance procedures are the same for both.

Cauldron of oil.

Pumice stone, rub till you bleed then rubbing alcohol till you scream. It sucks but works the best for me…… and I live in Kansas

Soak your legs in diesel fuel then set them on fire.

Put a cup of oatmeal in an old sock. Tie the end.

Run hot bath adding 1/4 cup baking soda & 1/8 cup Clorox.

Soak in the bath while scrubbing the little bastards with the oatmeal filled sock.

It isn't 100% right away cure, but it will be a whole lot better & almost no itch the next day.

Yep. Scratch the [bleep] out of them and dig out the 70% stuff.

Chiggers ain't got nothing on red leeches...

I make a permethrin solution from concentrate and treat my socks and jeans/overalls in season. Shower as soon as I get home.

Chiggers, mosquitoes and ticks deserve a special place in hell.

Pray god you don’t get a seed tick on ur pee pee the tip not good🤯

Campho Phenique quiets the itch.

Prevention is the best cure. Wear boots and put your pants legs inside the boots. Spray your boot tops and pants legs half way to your knees. If you go into red bug country in sandals and shorts you are looking for trouble.

If I get a tick or a red bug (which is not often) I daub him with pour on type Ivermectin or Cydectin.

I have great luck on the front end by using Cedarcide which is Red Texas Cedar Oil from Cedarcide.com No bites use it hunting, scouting, yard work, goes on the dog and I can spray the yard to knock back the skeeters. I buy it by the gallon and spray boots, socks, neck, face etc. No chemical exposure and the bugs hate it. also makes a decent scent cover in the woods, second only to peanut butter when hunting hogs!

Spray down with sawyer repellant and u will not get bit period. If u dont its an allergic reaction your body is having. The chigger is not buried under your skin. About any type of allergy meds will ease the itching but topical rubs or ointments keep the hair on your skin from moving and therefore making it itch worse. Miral is go but a jug of sawyer spray

Bleach bath

https://chiggerex.com/

I have done the bleach bath, wiped the bite w alcohol and everything else. The medication works best for me.

Lot a good suggestions. During the summer a soak in a swimming pool (whether chlorine or salt) helps tremendously. A afternoon in the surf at the beach is another way of getting relief.

GreggH

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.

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!

An ounce of prevention.

Almost three full pages before someone suggested it. Chiggerex is what I use and it works. One container lasts a long time too.

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...

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/Trombicula


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylostome

Yepp... Or Cope in a pinch.

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.

+1 for clear fingernail polish--- itching stops almost immediately and its gone in a couple days

I found the best remedy to chiggers is to move.

Pretty sure they're proof that God has a sense of humor.

JFC

what time does Wagon Trail come on?

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.

Ymmv

A good coating of earwax seems to get rid of em rite quick!

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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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.

Problem is they're almost worldwide.

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.

I used to live in Kansas and hated them.

What I can't figure out is why there are none in, for example, Virginia or West Virginia. Those have a climate very similar to Kansas, yet chiggers haven't travelled out here.

I got a few chiggers by my ankles and was itching to beat the band the other day.

A guy that was working for me said he used spray antifungal athlete's foot spray on his and it stopped the itching.

Chiggers drive me crazy... itches like hell. So I got home that evening and tried the foot spray on the chiggers. I have to say that it's worked better than any other remedy I've used. No BS.

Scratch them until they bleed then put absorb one junior on them. You will forget about the itch.

Take a bath with about 2oz of Lysol in the tube. That will kill the chiggers and stop the itch.

Ok for all of you that recommend clear finger nail polish, how does that help exactly? If you think you’re suffocating the chigger? News flash! Once it starts to itch, that chigger is long gone looking for its next meal.

I tried all the various remedies over the years. The best thing to do is to clean the bite site and refrain from scratching it. One thing that seems to help clean up the bite and heal it faster is actually over the counter acne medication, either in cream or pads. It helps to clean out the junk that the chigger left behind.

Branding iron comes to mind.

It works . Trust me.

Put a few ozs of Perm-Up in some pour-on ivermectin and spray from your knees to toes for prevention. You can spray your cap and gnats, skeeters won't bother you much. My Pop always taped his pant legs to his boots with electrical tape while cruising timber. Surprised no one recommended Calamine lotion for after the fact.

JFC

For the 8,000000th time.

This is goddamm day f ucking one deer hunting knowledge

Chiggers do not infest and burrow in. If you are confusing them with some other arthropod then fine, educate yourself and identify

Can certainly pick out who the f….uck is not an early season bowhunter. Or anyone that can read at 6th grade level

Get your medical from The Files of Myths and Legends, And Happy Camper

From Cleveland Clinic:

Don’t want to be tore the hell up,
Spray down with deet, permethrin, permanone, black flag, whatever

Important: take a stiff bristle brush and sweep off pants legs after doing grown-assed man outside type work. This will knock off a high percentage.

Wipe your ankles down with 91% alcohol asap from coming back from previous said grown assed man outside type work. Kills seed ticks on contact too. Keep a bottle in your varmintmobile

Don’t go home and sit on your ass for 4-6 hours watching Wagon Master and sucking cream corn thru a straw for dinner.
Get those clothes off and take a fuggin shower your hogs

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I hate Cheegrows...
Gold Bond Cream. Extra strength if you can find it.
I worked with a guy that mixed up Cortizone, menthol, and tea tree oil.

That will relieve almost anything!

ChiggerX found at Walmart. To keep from getting them spray your clothing with permethryn. I buy the concentrated cattle spray from tractor supply and mix it one ounce to 15 oz of water in a 16 oz spray bottle. Hang your clothes outside and spray them thoroughly. Let them dry before wearing them. Treatment lasts for 4 or 5 washings before you need to treat again. Also repels ticks.

Back in the early 60s there was 3 topicals for all things scrape and bite related on the human body........ Mercurochrome, merthiolate and Coal Oil (kerosene). If I was at my granddaddy's house and needed "treatment" my grandma would bring out one of the dreaded and highly feared mercury derived solutions. Fire in a bottle is what they were. I'm still not sure how the glass contained them. The Coal Oil was marvelous and used as a home remedy for all manner of issues.

Now..... moving on to seed ticks. If one happens to somehow end up with seed ticks on the scrotum and all that's immediately available in the truck is Absorbing Junior, DO NOT apply it. I repeat...DO NOT!!! If you do NASA will think that they have had a moon rocket hijacked. I never knew a man could run like Jesse Owens while his pants and underwear were down around his ankles ..... on the side of a rural county road. Never again!

And Slummy takes the class to school and that was grown ass man type of funny. 👍

Take a coffee mug and fill it with water to whatever level you choose. Place in microwave and bring to a boil. You may not have to get it this hot, a little experimentation will tell you how much to heat the water/mug. Touch the mug to your bites. That's it. Don't leave in contact for too long or you may blister the skin unnecessarily. You can also experiment with where on the mug to contact the bites. I find that a hot spot on the mug dabbed multiple times on a bite works better than prolonged contact with a less-hot area of the mug.

That’s kinda hard to do on certain body parts…😁

Electric heat gun about 6-8" from the skin and moving slowly is my go to for chigger bites and poison ivy.

Hoppes #9. It most likely won’t work , but you’ll love the smell !

A shot of Prednisone OP. I got chiggers while shoveling up an old sawdust pile. I thought it was poison ivy from somewhere else but it turned out to be chigger bites. Poison ivy or chiggers, get a shot of steroids with some follow up pills and you’ll start feeling better within hours.

I hope to hell somebody got you a Snickers bar for your Hangry!

Always a joy to get a covey of them on the nuts. Several days of the joy gets rid of them.

Now you know why BSK left TnDeer. Feel dumber a little more every day being around certain types.

JFC

I said this earlier in the thread - I think the nail polish stops anything from brushing against the "bite" sites and irritating it. It stays on for a full day or two giving your body a little time to get over the worst of it.

Use with an antihistamine.

I have not tried a drawing salve on them. Anyone?

Kroil

Ammonia will relieve the sting and itching from insect bites .

Yup.
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I've always had good results with clear fingernail polish for any insect bites . . . well, except for brown recluse bite.

Brown recluse is not an insect so there's that.

True that . . . most folks in these parts just lump them in the "bugs" grouping.

Midol

lol

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