[Zhang Fei]

[My wife can walk through mid height grass in shirts and sandals and they don’t touch her. I walk through wearing boots and jeans and long sleeve shirt and they leave welts on my waist line and under arms.
Thing is with chiggers, they are too small to see, but leave red painful bite marks where they have injected you. And it itches, very painful itches.]

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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.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I press hard with a fingertip for several seconds. Helps with chigger bites, mosquito bites, and bee stings, probably by dissipating the saliva or venom into surrounding tissue.