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Chigg away

Get a dish towel with hot soapy water and ammonia and wash yourself down. Works with ant bites as well.

The chiggers used their mouthparts and injected you with some enzymes and then sucked out the juices:eek::rotfl:



"Dang, nature be scary" - unknown UL Monroe biology major, 2004

This works. It smoothers the bug.

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I took your advice last year on the sulfur powder when we had a thread about this. Just made a mess and didn't work at all. Maybe I didn't do something right. During summer/archery season at my place in St Francisville, they are absolutely brutal and for some reason I "attract" them way more than others. I went a few weeks ago to put a camera out and fill a feeder. Guy told me to try drier sheets. Put them in both socks and every pocket you got. It really did work. First time I haven't been touched. But I am a little leery of trying this when bow hunting due to scent.

As for remedies after you get the bites, honestly there are none. I have tried every "coonass" remedy under the sun. I have tried putting half a gallon to a gallon of Clorox in my bath!! Clear fingernail polish! Prescription ointment! Some of these may help a little, or maybe just for a handful of bites. But if they really get you, you're basically just screwed and gotta wait it out. Clear fingernail polish is probably the most relief but not much help.

Get some green alchohol pour 3 bottles in a tub with scalding hot water
1 ounce of garlic juice, drink half pour the other half in the water
1 bottle of victorias secret amber romance into the tub
1/2 a jug of bleach, into the tub.

Get an ice chest, put 12 beers in it and cover it with some inside out frozen in a precooled k2 cooler, set it next to the tub.
Get in the tub and soak in it for 57 minutes, when ever you feel like a beer reach over and get you one.
Dry your self off with dryer sheets and then cover all the bites with some clear nail polish that is on the clearance rack at the 2nd closest Dollar General to you.
Dust your self with sulphur powder and then get your wife to massage you down with some wal-mart brand cortizone.


Hope this helps.

That's what works for me too.

:cheers: FTMFW!!!!!!

I do the same with the exception of whiskey instead of beer. Works every time.

Picked a truck load of watermelons yesterday.. Didn't think about it and wore shorts.. From feet up I'm covered

I am a expert on this. (haha) the little bugs love me. Went to doctor once had them so bad. Soak in hot tub with epson salt then use
Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic Mouthwash , its the only thing that relieved the pain for me.

Nice. I'm gonna try this after they cover me opening weekend of bow season. Only remedy i havent tried or heard of. They love me as well. My buddy had to go to doctor for them too. They gave him a prescription ointment that he gave to me but it wasn't much help.

Works for me the doctor is the one that actually told me about this. Just use cotton swab it helps releive the pain. Dont use it as mouth wash though without watering it down it will blister your mouth. (LOL)

Got them really bad after sleeping in the field for a few days couple weeks ago. I've always found that when they blister up a like an ant bite if you just scratch them good until they bleed a bit then take an alcohol pad and wipe them all down it will relieve a lot of the itching and dry them up a lot. Hurts like H#LL but doing this once or twice gets rid of them.

Clorox in a hot bath has worked for me every time . Also works for poison ivy ,oak ,sumac,

That's what I've always heard.

You guys should google chigger bites. They aren't actually burrowed in your skin. The itch will continue long after the chigger is gone just like mosquito bites itch after the mosquito is gone. So there is no need to try and suffocate them. Hot shower after you get out of the woods should be sufficient to get rid of the bugs, but the bite is going to itch after they are gone.

Vicks vapor rub works almost instantly.

The fingernail stuff never worked for me. Apparently they live down in there till they suffocate and until they do they itch like crazy. Wait till you get some on the tip of your manhood. That was very unpleasant.