Questions 'bout Chiggers

[flatlander37]

Hey guys, I went to the family farm yesterday to hang stands and scout for deer and came back with over a hundred chigger bites.  Never used to get them this bad in my youth, must be the extra fat that tastes sweet to them  :D  .  What I'm wondering is 1)if there is anything that I can ingest orally that will help keep them at bay and 2)If the story I heard about wearing womens pantyhose helps alot because they can't get next to your skin?
I used bug spray before I went out also, but it was the one with DEET not Permanone.  Thanks, Itchy  

[Dutchman]

I have a friend that drinks a juice glass of cider vinegar every night. He works as a lineman for the power company and is out in the woods most every day and he swears that the vinegar keeps him from gettin'g bit.

[Flatshooter]

HEY FLATLANDER, THE PANTYHOSE THING MAY WORK BUT I HEARD YOU ALSO HAVE TO WEAR THE HEELS      

[Billy]

if yer gonna wear heels they gotta fit the 'team pink' theme tho...  

[Pat B.]

Since you already have the bites, take some full strength Clorox bleach and wipe the bite areas down... This kills the itch permanently for me.

[MikeW]

In the future you can go to the pharmacy and get a bottle of powdered sulfur, put it in an old sock and dust your boots and inside the bottom of your pants with it...if you sit or knell on the ground dust around your waist band also. Guaranteed no bug bites of any kind.

I'm a lineman also and I've been using this for years, the only time I get chiggers is when I forget to use it.

Chiggers! No more talk about Chiggers,I'm starting to itch.

[Pat B]

PERMANONE!!!   Deet is a repellent. Permanone is a poison that kills almost any bug that touches it.
Earlier this summer was the worst tick season around here that I have ever been a part of. Chiggers also seem to be abundant this year.
   Pat

[JPE]

Chiggers are BAD in Mo. this year. When you come in from the woods bathe with bleach and hot water. Before hand sulfer and permanone help keep them away. Jim Pyles

[Ringneck]

Flatlander, I am scratchin' right along with you. Suckers got me good the other day.

[Pat B]

I believe that chiggers are small enough to walk right through pantyhose without even touching them. If anything pantyhose would make the problem worse. I have had chiggers get through my socks and they love to attack where your cloths are the tightest.
  Pat

[ductape]

W*** M*** pharmacy has a product called chiggerid that works real well, best applied at the first sign of the bites. Bleach will help also if you can take the burn.   :eek:

[ductape]

My brother has been a logger in MO for more than 20 years, he uses army BTU pants with the tye strings at the bottem in adition to repellant. At the most he gets an ocational tick, no chiggs. I know better than to ask if he wears pantyhose.      

[Bob Barnes]

PERMANONE is for ticks and mosquitoes...I made the mistake of thinking it would also be good for chiggers when I went down to south Arkansas this summer...the game warden laughed and said it wouldn't work...he was right.  They don't call the football team down there the Red Bugs for nothing...  :(   It seems that any regular repellent that says it's for chiggers is better...but save the PERMANONE for ticks...nothing better for them.
Bob

[flatlander37]

Thanks for the replies guys, and the only "heels" I'm wearin' in the woods will be my Lacrosse rubber boots!  

[Flatshooter]

SUIT YOURSELF FLATLANDER BUT DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YA!      

[GWS]

A pharmacist friend of mine put me on this. After exposure to chiggers and before they have imbedded spray the exposed area (ususally ankles) with starting fluid and take a shower or bath. Insects breath through their skin(shell) and the ether kills them.  My disclaimer is to avoid open flames by all means.

[JEFF B]

my advice is dont NEVER EVER SIT ON THE GROUND!!!  belive me i know from experience those things are the devil. how about this rubber boots with oil on that way the little buggers just slide off.  

[Don Stokes]

They are bad here in north MS. Yesterday I went out scouting and used Cutters 6% deet spray (2 for $4 at Dollar General), starting with my shoes, socks, blue jeans all the way up, especially around my butt and waist, my arms from backs of hands and wrists nearly to armpits, all over my t-shirt, and finish off with a ring around my neck. I pushed through 8 foot tall weeds without getting any. From past experience, without the spray I would have been covered up. My first dose of chiggers every year, before I start using the spray, is always 50-100 or more. They're like the kudzu- you have to learn to love 'em.

[Howard]

I use Muskol (sp?) 100 % deet in the worst places but normally use spray with 30% deet and I have never had a chigger, tick, mosquito or no-seeum get me when I have it on, I spray it around my ankles waist and neck and shoulders and I'm good to go, but I  haven't ever been out of the south.

[SilverTip]

shave your legs, leg hairs aint noth'in but grab robes for chiggers. try shaving just one leg and you will see the difference. But for christ sake explain it to your wife first. and never admit it to the guys ya hunt with. Just for the record I've never shaved my legs and anybody that says I did is packin a butt whoppin if your not to big.
 

         Billy