Chiggers

[Coach]

Chigger-Rid is what I always used on my kids...seemed to work. For some reason I don't get chiggers or ticks...but, if there is one skeeter within a mile he'll find me

Chig-rid just distracts you from scratching the itch, and not scratching helps the welt heal faster. For reducing the itch, dabbing the welts with witch hazel works well too, and it's cheap.

Some people think chiggers don't feed on them. yet in reality, it is just that the person's histamine system doesn't react to the chigger's feeding tube it creates in your skin. The itchy red bump of a chigger "bite" (and they don't really bite, they just liquefy your skin cells and drink them) is your body reacting to the chigger's liquefaction saliva as a foreign substance that must be attacked. If your body doesn't react to the chigger's saliva, you get no itchy bumps (even though chiggers ARE feeding on you).

Hey, thanks for that info BSK!! geez...think I'm starting to itch

 

[Boone 58]

I can get over chiggers in a week. Seed ticks are still itching a month later.

X~2...............dang I hate them things and I am getting covered up EVERYTIME I go in the woods!!!

 

[dsa5455]

Just ordered 4 prs of the ones for 4.99, only 6 prs left if you want some.

Ordered 4 for myself also.

 

[WGK]

I can get over chiggers in a week. Seed ticks are still itching a month later.

There are about 10,000 species of mite that are considered "chiggers." In early to mid summer, the chigger species that causes the most problem is the one that likes to bite around tight clothing areas, such as socks, underwear, tight sleeves, etc. My body has somewhat gotten used to those, and the itch is gone in a week. But there is a type of chigger I usually only encounter in fall--while working food plots or in tall grass fields--that does not seek out tight clothing areas. I get bitten by these most often on the hands and forearms, and this chigger's bite produces a clear, fluid-filled blister. Pop that blister, and a living Hell ensues. Those bites last a full month on me, and are truly miserable.

I remember you posting about these chigger last year. Because these were the ones that got me a few weeks ago. It was pure misery.

 

[BSK]

I remember you posting about these chigger last year. Because these were the ones that got me a few weeks ago. It was pure misery.

I've got a couple of them between my fingers right now, and they are driving me CRAZY!

 

[Coach]

I remember you posting about these chigger last year. Because these were the ones that got me a few weeks ago. It was pure misery.

I've got a couple of them between my fingers right now, and they are driving me CRAZY!

Chigger-Rid!! haha

 

[Coon_huntr4life]

I got them while bush hogging, wearing shorts on the tractor. The 'baby birds' was tore up I tell ya. That was a rough week flaggin traffic.

 

[Trevor2]

There use to be a chigger guard you could buy at Wal-mart that would help with them. It was an elastic sock type of thing that would stretch and fit over your boots and bottom of your pants. It was great for keeping your shoe laces tight so that when you walked through the thick vegetation they wouldn't get untied. I had three pairs of them but they have all lost their stretch and no longer work. Wish I could find them again because they seem to work pretty good. Haven't seen them in many years.

might check out an army surplus store and see if they have any

 

[lungpuncher1]

I can get over chiggers in a week. Seed ticks are still itching a month later.

There are about 10,000 species of mite that are considered "chiggers." In early to mid summer, the chigger species that causes the most problem is the one that likes to bite around tight clothing areas, such as socks, underwear, tight sleeves, etc. My body has somewhat gotten used to those, and the itch is gone in a week. But there is a type of chigger I usually only encounter in fall--while working food plots or in tall grass fields--that does not seek out tight clothing areas. I get bitten by these most often on the hands and forearms, and this chigger's bite produces a clear, fluid-filled blister. Pop that blister, and a living Hell ensues. Those bites last a full month on me, and are truly miserable.

What are the one's that leave the fluid filled blister? I've got literally hundreds of those on me right now from a scouting trip I made to Ohio Wednesday and I'm miserable!

 

[BSK]

What are the one's that leave the fluid filled blister? I've got literally hundreds of those on me right now from a scouting trip I made to Ohio Wednesday and I'm miserable!

Just one of the myriad mite species known as "chiggers." But the "clear blister" chigger is most common in late August through September. At least that's the only time I get them.