Got ate up this weekend. Soaked the clothes in Peremetherin but it didnt phase these guys. Anybody got any tried and true methods for getting rid of the itch?????
Clear nail polish
Skin Shield liquid bandage - works about the same as clear nail polish but has a bit of medication in it to kill the itch right off.
Or, go old school. Scratch them suckers open, douse a rag in bleach, wipe over the affected area. Let it sit for 5 minutes, then rinse off. Works for poison ivy too.
Douse in gas an light them on fire....
Benadryl, Claritin (Loratadine), and/or calamine lotion.
If you paint them with nail polish or scratch them open and bleach them, you're just going to be a painted, scabby, smelly, ITCHY person. The blisters and itching are symptomatic of the body's allergic reaction, just like a mosquito bite (which I've never heard anyone tell anyone to douse in bleach or paint with nail polish) and have to be treated as such. BTW: Bleach is a chemical and, even when diluted, can cause a chemical burn.
WIVES TALES: Chiggers don't embed themselves in your skin and PI blisters won't spread the rash upon breaking (or ever, for that matter). Chigger bites are just that, and what causes the "spread" of a poison ivy rash is remnants of the urishol oil left behind on clothes, shoes, gloves, and tools that were never properly cleaned off after exposure.
If you paint them with nail polish or scratch them open and bleach them, you're just going to be a painted, scabby, smelly, ITCHY person. The blisters and itching are symptomatic of the body's allergic reaction, just like a mosquito bite (which I've never heard anyone tell anyone to douse in bleach or paint with nail polish) and have to be treated as such. BTW: Bleach is a chemical and, even when diluted, can cause a chemical burn.
WIVES TALES: Chiggers don't embed themselves in your skin and PI blisters won't spread the rash upon breaking (or ever, for that matter). Chigger bites are just that, and what causes the "spread" of a poison ivy rash is remnants of the urishol oil left behind on clothes, shoes, gloves, and tools that were never properly cleaned off after exposure.
I think hell might consist of nothing but chiggers everywhere!!!!! We're going swimming tonight so hopefully the chlorine helps too
That will burn like fire on the chigger bites
