Chiggers BAD! Need help

[Rotney]

I use 100% Deet on clothes skin anywhere a chigger can inject me. So far no brain damage.

No Drain Bamage, lol, that's debatable Elkbowhunter, lol. Just kiddin. Always enjoy your post. This B1 is just easy take one a day.

[elkbowhunter]

No Drain Bamage, lol, that's debatable Elkbowhunter, lol. Just kiddin. Always enjoy your post. This B1 is just easy take one a day.

oh...Ok...so just take 1 a day? I have to try it.

[Rotney]

I have the B1 but have not tried them yet. Not a big pill guy. So you take one a day? regardless? So in all you take 30 a month and then when you are in the field you take an additional 3? Seems like a lot of B1 right?

That's what I do. I looked up B1 on the information net and there are no side effects. It says "vital for converting food into energy". Now with that being said, for that to occur with me, I'll need to take 3 a day. Lol

[elkbowhunter]

That's what I do. I looked up B1 on the information net and there are no side effects. It says "vital for converting food into energy". Now with that being said, for that to occur with me, I'll need to take 3 a day. Lol

I hear ya!

[laredoarcher]

I got hammered this past Friday. First time. Really a bad deal.

[BOHTR]

Don't laugh.....but the nurse practitioner at my plant told me about some stuff that works really well to help control the itching. It's call Vagicaine......you can get it at WalMart. It's feminine itch creme and it has 3 times the active ingrediate of the others (ChiggerX, ect.) I was skeptical, but it really works. Nothing will completely get rid of the itch, but this stuff really knocks in down a few levels.

[Wheelie]

Scratching my Oklahoma chiggers right now ahhhhhh.

[scarecrow]

Gentlemen for years now I have been dusting myself down with corn starch. WORKS everytime! I pour corn starch into a sock enough to where sock is about the size of baseball. Just swing sock against you, then hit your jeans boots and pull pants legs up and dust again before taking off into woods. I keep sock in baggy in truck. But all that does not help after you gottem.

[sethcros]

I had a serious case a few weeks ago, and what stopped the itching the best was Ambesol. Normally you use it for tooth aches, but it's an analgesic, and stopped the itch better than any anti itch cream I tried.

[DesertDug]

Man I am torn up and this is week two. I have holes all on my skin. I am so bad about scratching.

Chiggers are the devil!

[garfish]

I'm kinda late to this party, but I spray my lower extremities with
permethrin (clothing). I
may still get one but more likely, mosquito bites. Benadryl gel seems to work best for
itching. anything with
benzocaine gives me a
severe case of eczema
that is worse than any
bite. clear painful blisters on hands and
sometimes feet.

[Bullydog]

Don't laugh.....but the nurse practitioner at my plant told me about some stuff that works really well to help control the itching. It's call Vagicaine......you can get it at WalMart. It's feminine itch creme and it has 3 times the active ingrediate of the others (ChiggerX, ect.) I was skeptical, but it really works. Nothing will completely get rid of the itch, but this stuff really knocks in down a few levels.

Ha, I don't care how well it works. I would take a chigger infestation on my boys before I would ever step foot into a pharmacy and buy a tube. I doubt my wife would appreciate me sending her in to buy it for me either...lol

[Uncle Saggy]

I use bleach on a washcloth in the shower. Works good for me

[howabouttheiris]

4 weeks ago, I got tore up. Was not planning on getting off the trail, but walked about a 1/2 mile across a grassy field and along a creek bed. Boots and pants, but no bug spray and no pant leg seal.

I am just now better, where the last of the bites on the back of my legs are not longer itchy. That was about 25 days of agony. I sit at a PC all day, which gives you ample time to think about how much your legs itch.

Here is one photo of the side of my leg, boot high. If felt like every day there were new bites, but that is just the nature of the size of the holes and how quickly they react and infect.

I now ALWAYS wear knee high compression socks and a shot of 100% deet.

[txdukklr]

Once the bites show up the chiggers is already gone unless you havent bathed or they are still on your clothing, so the nail polish does nothing in that regard.

Having been the victim of them many times, prevetion is the best medicine. Dust your boots/pant legs with powdered sulfur that can be found at most garden/hardware stores. Also wipe down your ankles and legs with rubbing alcohol when you get back from the woods.

Now that you already have the bites, youre in for an miserable week. Steriod shot would be best if its driving you crazy. ChiggerEX or Calamine lotion also helps the symptoms.

or douse yourself with gasoline and set fire to yourself.

Not sure why but they always get me in the groin. Absolute misery.

I now do the following for early season hunts or time outside.

• change immediately when i come in
• use a mixture of bleach and water to wipe down
• either clean or bag clothes that i've worn immediately
• shower
• I also pay special attention to spray deet heavily in the areas that i know they'll come in. Booth seems, exposed legs, waist.

I've always heard they go to the heated areas . . . . seems like they get me on my feet, behind my knees and in my special parts.