How to stop the itch of chigger bites?
06-09-2010, 09:35 AM
#13
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I use Noxema on mine. For those who don't know about chiggers, when you get them they look like mosquito bites, and itch like crazy. Mom puts eucolyptus oil on her legs before hanging clothes on the line. They don't like it and will leave you alone.
06-09-2010, 09:39 AM
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Ivarest is the best thing ever invented!! It has a numbing agent in it and at first it stings for a few seconds and then it will numb the spot. You can use it 3 times a day I think it is. I wouldn't use anything else. I keep 3 bottles of it on hand so we always have one on hand. I keep one in the bathroom and one on my desk and one for an extra. It is great stuff!!
I get it at Walmart.
I get it at Walmart.
06-09-2010, 10:03 AM
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Chigger Basics
"Many people think of chiggers as blood-sucking insects, like fleas, ticks or mosquitoes. There are two problems with this belief. The first is that chiggers are not insects, and the second is that they don't eat blood. Chiggers are the larvae of harvest mites, and they consume the cells of their host's skin.
Harvest mites are arachnids -- they're related to ticks and spiders. Adults are small and red, and they have eight legs. They live in the soil, so people often find them while digging in yards or gardens. Adult harvest mites eat other insects and their eggs. They can be beneficial to human beings, since they often eat the eggs of other pests, such as mosquitoes"...........
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/ara....htm/printable
It gives you the whole rundown there including pictures. Looks like we were all a little bit wrong....lol!
"Many people think of chiggers as blood-sucking insects, like fleas, ticks or mosquitoes. There are two problems with this belief. The first is that chiggers are not insects, and the second is that they don't eat blood. Chiggers are the larvae of harvest mites, and they consume the cells of their host's skin.
Harvest mites are arachnids -- they're related to ticks and spiders. Adults are small and red, and they have eight legs. They live in the soil, so people often find them while digging in yards or gardens. Adult harvest mites eat other insects and their eggs. They can be beneficial to human beings, since they often eat the eggs of other pests, such as mosquitoes"...........
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/ara....htm/printable
It gives you the whole rundown there including pictures. Looks like we were all a little bit wrong....lol!
06-09-2010, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Tally Kathy
A bath in baking soda helped my son after a camping trip - he was covered in them. They are tenny tiny insects, and contrary to belief they do not burrow, they bite, get a blood meal, and leave. They concentrate at the edges of shirts , shorts, pants, socks. The itching can last for days and days.
OTC hydrocortisone helps.
OTC hydrocortisone helps.
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