Chigger remedies?

onestrangeone
onestrangeone Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Does anyone have any home remedies that have worked for you? I have been using teatree oil lately and it seems to help some 7 or 8 hrs maybe, I hoping for something that will actually kill em, or something that I could spray on my pant cuffs to keep em off.  

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  • wahooschock
    wahooschock Posts: 792 ✭✭✭
    Nail polish on the spot. Suffocates em. 
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  • onestrangeone
    onestrangeone Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've tried nail polish in the past, also vinegar and salt, I couldn't tell that any of these made any difference.

  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wait one week. Works every time... otherwise

    nail polish and wait one week
    anti-itch cream and wait one week
    vigorous scratching and wait one week
    Dunkin Donuts double chocolate and wait one week
    antiseptic and wait one week
    ointy ointy ment and wait one week


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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mix alcohol and sand together and rub on. The chiggers then get drunk and stone one another to death....   >:)
  • Andrew_Dzikoski
    Andrew_Dzikoski Posts: 381 ✭✭✭
    rub food grade Diatomacious earth on the effected area. will kill them but won't do much for itch. Also works for bed bugs and just about all insects. can even feed it to your dog to deworm them.
  • onestrangeone
    onestrangeone Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    Wait one week. Works every time... otherwise

    nail polish and wait one week
    anti-itch cream and wait one week
    vigorous scratching and wait one week
    Dunkin Donuts double chocolate and wait one week
    antiseptic and wait one week
    ointy ointy ment and wait one week



    Sigh,,, Pretty much resigned to accepting this,,,, nope not ready yet.
  • skydiverD
    skydiverD Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Smoking dog rockets. 
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  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I swear by Avon Skin So Soft as a preventative.  
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Echambers said:
    I swear by Avon Skin So Soft as a preventative.  
    Or, if you've got a horse (preferably an old mare) you could try the cure for chapped lips I spelled out in the story of two cowboys in the joke thread.....  :p
  • kaspera79
    kaspera79 Posts: 7,250 ✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    Mix alcohol and sand together and rub on. The chiggers then get drunk and stone one another to death....   >:) 

    This combined with the also mentioned Double Chocolate Doughnut would be my favored approach.  And, bacon.. That is also a cure all.

  • onestrangeone
    onestrangeone Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
     Ummm, chocolate bacon!
  • PowerplaySS
    PowerplaySS Posts: 5 ✭
    At the Drug Store buy a bottle of TECNU, follow directions and cleanse the skin, next apply CalaGel, follow directions on bottle. (I use the OAK-N-IVY brand).
    This is the best thing ever for Poison OAK, Ivy and Sumac. Skin allergies, Rashes,
    Burns and Insect Bites. 

    I found that eating lotts of pickles durring hunting season seamed to prevent a lot of tick and chigger problems, but I love home made pickles.

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