Chiggers! Redbugs!.. ????
- Thread starter Beetree
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Just grab a few leaves of Plantain,crush/mush in your hand and rub the resultant mess on the bites - instant relief. Also when I was a kiddie and went to camp on the river in Fla, I attracted every sand chigger for miles. I ended up going to the nurse's office 3 times a day to drink a glass of water with a teaspoon of baking SODA dissolved in it. Balances out the base/acid in the body - bitting insects LOVE acid bodies and the soda cut the acidity enough that the chiggers couldn't find me.
http://www.cloudnet.com/~djeans/FlwPlant/commonPlantain.htm I don't know how to post pictures, but here are some. It's a weed growing everywhere. Chiggers are chiggers whether in moss, grass, or sand. Not beach sand, river sand/dirt. They may have been moss chiggers, I only remember the camp nurse saying sand chiggers. I was born and raised down there Beetree - long time ago! Try to avoid going back like a plague though still have family all over the state.
Just Plain Mom
Alien Lizard Person
Ssssting Stop--maker is Boericke & Tafel. It has stuff to stop the itch and stuff to keep away biting beasties. Just don't put it near your eyes. You can buy this stuff in a health food store or herb store.
fruit loop
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Chiggerex
This is a repellant for chiggers.
Baking soda on the bites. Campho-Phenique is good too
This is a repellant for chiggers.
Baking soda on the bites. Campho-Phenique is good too
grannyclampett
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As soon as I come in from chiggar areas, I get in the shower, lather up with lye soap and stand there for a few minutes. Gets them off. I still may get a few bites, but they go away quickly and they don't keep biting me.