chiggers

[mare]

my daughter in law has chiggers and she is pregnant so the wont give her much to relieve the itch--anybody have any ideas on a natural way to help with this?

[GrannyG]

The only thing I have found that eases the itching is stick deodorant....any cheap brand...just rub it over the bites, eases it for quite a while...you can smell good at the same time you scratch.

[mare]

thanks granny, i'll have to call her right now.

[jukebox]

Paint them with clear nail polish or
http://www.chigarid.com/

[Ark]

TEA TREE OIL

You can get this at almost any pharmacy, over the counter.

Dab some on each bite with a q tip. Wait a while and if it starts itching again, dab some more on.

It works GREAT!!! All natural remedy.

[gone-a-milkin]

And cut your fingernails off short. I tear myself up while I am asleep from those things.

Chigger bites are MISERABLE. Staying really cool helps too. They always itch worse when you are overheated. Sadly these bites can last for WEEKS. My sympathy to your DIL. How many bites did she get?

[mare]

i dont know if they spread or not but she had a few yesterday and woke up with a rash all over her face and arms--well i guess they look like little pimples. i hope i never get those. i'll tell her about the tea tree oil but i dont think she will use the fingernail polish cuz she is kinda raw. thanks

[mare]

well she just called me back and said the deoderant worked great. good deal!!!!!!!! thanks again

[Alice In TX/MO]

Could be poison ivy spreading to her face. Chiggers and poison ivy seem to go together.

[gone-a-milkin]

Ditto what Alice says. Chigger bites dont 'spread'.

Poison ivy and chigger bites do "go together", sadly.

[ksfarmer]

Hardly ever have chiggers on face and arms, usually more apt to be where clothes fit tightly, waist, ankles and unmentionables. And the bites don't spread. Maybe poison ivy is a better guess.

[empofuniv]

I just got back from a week in OK and the chiggers had me so eat up my legs looked like I had leprosy.

I didn't have any clear nail polish with me...we used that on the bites when I lived in OK when I was a youngster....many years ago.

The only thing I had in the travel trailer that I thought might be remotely useful was Listerine. I dabbed that on the bites w a cotton ball and maybe it was in my head, but it sure seemed to help. Just had to keep dabbing it on til SIL got there w some Benydril.

[samm]

my feet, ankles, and behind my knees, and on top of my legs, are covered in chiggers, we have been in the hay feilds the past week everyday, and they have eat me up....i come home, take a shower, and scrub with homemade soap, and then use the same rag that i scrubbed the heck out of my chiggers with, i use straight bleach on em, it burns some depending how bad i have irritated them, but they usually die or something by the next day after i do that....i hate a chigger....im sure there is some reason for them to be here...but i aint heard it yet....

samm

[Prickle]

Bathing with some baking soda in the water helps too.

Cortisone cream works, but I don't about using it when pregnant.

I'll have to try the deodorant, I've never heard of that before.

This stuff really helps keep them off, I get it at the grocery store:

Cutter Lemon Eucalyptus

http://www.cutterinsectrepellent.com.../CutterMax100/

[whiterock]

I add bleach to bath water or mix up some and dab it on the chiggars one by one if not too many. works well for me

[Joshie]

Originally Posted by mare

i dont know if they spread or not but she had a few yesterday and woke up with a rash all over her face and arms--well i guess they look like little pimples. i hope i never get those. i'll tell her about the tea tree oil but i dont think she will use the fingernail polish cuz she is kinda raw. thanks

Chiggers don't look like little pimples. Poison ivy tends to go in a line. Chiggers tend to be at waist, well, anywhere your underwear elastic touches you.

When you say that it looks like little pimples I think Impetigo. That's a bacterial infection of the skin.

Chiggers look like big purple/red raised itchy areas. Poison ivy tends to be little blisters in a line. Impetigo looks pimpley.

[fellini123]

Couple of years ago I was out in the field working with the horses. I got a terrible case of chiggers, but at the time I didnt know what it was. It was driving me crazy. So bad that I went to the VA to have them look at it. The doctor was very smypathic, (sp) but he couldnt stop giggling!! LOL
Made me feel like a complete idiot. He did say it was the worse case of chiggers he had ever seen. He put me on massive doses of prednesone.
That wont work for someone that is preggant. What about wet tea bags?? they work for a lot of things???

Alice in virginia

[Tricky Grama]

For goodness' sake, you guys, put some sulphur in a sock and dust yourselves all over your feet, shoes, legs, waist BEFORE you go in the grass and you WILL NOT get chiggers!

Patty

[nancy237]

I asked our OBGYN for my daughter when her legs were covered and she was 8 months pregnant. He said rubbing Benedryl creme on iher legs was fine.

I would still check with your doctor but thought I would pass that on.