[ChildOfThe60s]

We are having a record chigger season in KY.

Twice in the last month I have been doing some basic grass or shrub work by my house and have never been chigger bit there before and I got chewed up. For me it takes 2 weeks for them to stop itching. NOTHING relieves the itching. I have tried everything. Last time I had at least 15 bites up into my thighs and groin. My grass is always kept cut.

From now on I’m covering myself in OFF/Deet from the waist down before I trim a bush. If that doesn’t work I’m paying someone to do it from now on.

[Zhang Fei]

[Twice in the last month I have been doing some basic grass or shrub work by my house and have never been chigger bit there before and I got chewed up. For me it takes 2 weeks for them to stop itching. NOTHING relieves the itching. I have tried everything. Last time I had at least 15 bites up into my thighs and groin. My grass is always kept cut.]

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I don’t know if this will work for you, but one home remedy I’ve used is to rub (moistened) salt on the bites for a few seconds each then washed it off. The itching doesn’t completely go away, but the intensity and duration seems to subside by what seems to be an order of magnitude. My theory is that the salt draws off whatever chigger saliva is causing the allergic reaction that causes the itching, i.e. there’s a kind of osmotic action at work here. I rub the salt in hard enough to see some color, but not hard enough to draw blood.

[Farmerbob]

See post #64

[Deaf Smith]

>>NOTHING relieves the itching

Powdered boric acid.

Rub it into the bite where the chigger is.

Too risky to do so to kids.

Kills the chigger and the itching.

*Chiggers burrow under the skin, usually at a hair follicle.