This year it's chiggers :'(.. Anyone know a good treatment?
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Last year it was a spider bite..
- Thread starter The_Codfather
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Chiggers are nasty critters. I think I would take a spider bite over those and i've had both. I have scars that look like freckels from my ankles to my calves on both legs from my chigger episode.
Use a clear fingernail polish Sid. That will seal the bite and suffocate them. Plus, it seems to stop the itching.
Good luck. Those things are a PITA!
Good luck. Those things are a PITA!
Fee Fi Fo Fum NJ bugs smell the blood of a Englishman :'(Olivier said:The_Codfather said:
What the heck man? why are you letting those creatures eating you up my man? bite back
A friend just gave me Chiggerex and the wife is out right now getting nail polish.. been taking benadryl and applying hydrocortisone cream.. helps a bit but this itching is insane!
damn man you must be tasty to insects! bleach works just as good as nail polish.
Funny you say that.. I just had a bleach bathizmullives said:
I grew up in the pine's....I've had them more times than I can remember. itches like crazy!
Sid, you are a bug magnet!
I like your fee, fii, foo, fum line…...that must be true…..a recluse and now chiggers.
(NOTE TO SELF: Don’t visit Sid’s house ever again....infested with man-eating bugs.)
Anyway, chiggers don’t actually bury themselves in your skin, so I’m not sure what the nail polish is doing??? Maybe it is soothing to actually close up the little hole they have left. Usually once you get to the itching stage, the chigger is long gone. Just use the treatments you would regularly use to stop itching....benadryl, calamine, steroids, oatmeal, etc.
And a bleach bath....what’s that all about....talk about a white Englishman!....throw in a little starch and that would make you one of those stiff-as-a-board, snobbish white Englishmen. ;D
I like your fee, fii, foo, fum line…...that must be true…..a recluse and now chiggers.
(NOTE TO SELF: Don’t visit Sid’s house ever again....infested with man-eating bugs.)
Anyway, chiggers don’t actually bury themselves in your skin, so I’m not sure what the nail polish is doing??? Maybe it is soothing to actually close up the little hole they have left. Usually once you get to the itching stage, the chigger is long gone. Just use the treatments you would regularly use to stop itching....benadryl, calamine, steroids, oatmeal, etc.
And a bleach bath....what’s that all about....talk about a white Englishman!....throw in a little starch and that would make you one of those stiff-as-a-board, snobbish white Englishmen. ;D
nail polish is to remind him were to scratch!
Man, talk about entertainment. ;D
Too late i did it.. I thought if bleach is good to nuke LR of BA it's good enough for meOlivier said:
SureGregW said:
Sid, go down to the bay and collect a bunch of snails, throw them in a container of tank water and soak the infected chigger areas in the water. You will no longer be concerned about the chiggers.(inside joke!)
hey that might work like leeches :Whitebird1 said:
;D but i tell you what Greg Doc has me on prednisone and i feel like a million bucks with so much energy and been having bouts of roid posting ;D