If you are reading this you undoubtedly want to know about a chigger treatment. That is how to stop or prevent chiggers wicked, mean, nasty any by all means not over rated by any stretch of the imagination, itch.
A body may perhaps tell you chiggers are also known as harvest mite, red bugs (not to be confused with bed bugs) and perhaps a few unmentionables. But what do you care about what they are called. You are not here to get a biology report on chiggers.
However, it may prove to be advantageous to know chiggers do not bore under the skin and live there till they die. If you know chiggers only fasten to your skin during the process of their feeding you will know it is easier to get rid of them than you thought.
Avoiding chiggers is without a doubt the easiest and most effectual way of avoiding bites, therefore having to go looking for an effective anti itch treatment.
Chiggers have a special habitation they like to hang out in. They love the woods and shaded areas that are warm. Like wood piles and leaf piles or other heaps of organic substance in the process of producing heat during decay.
They also like to hang out on undergrowth of brush and the tall grass of meadows and fields, waiting for their host to come marching by, so they can rub off or drop on them.
So clearly it is to your advantage to avoid these areas if possible. If you are hiking try to stay on trails and away from overhanging grass and branches.
While you are in the woods it is advisable to wear protective clothing. Wear boots and tuck your britches inside of them. Wear light colored clothes with tight weave, but not close-fitting. If you do not have boots, tuck your pants inside of your socks.
If you are with someone employ what the army calls the buddy system. Stop every little while and brush each other off. It takes chiggers a while to find an opening into your body, so a good thorough brush off every couple of hours will help to keep yourself shucked of them.
If you are driving back home, before entering your vehicle, again do a brush off to keep as many chiggers as possible from entering your vehicle with you. If you have cloth upholstery they will live in there waiting for your return. Remember, prevention is the best chigger treatment known.
When you get home, get your clothes into a nice hot wash with lots of soap and bleach ahead of going anywhere or doing anything. The idea is keep the chiggers isolated to only a small area, not depositing them all through out the house.
Then get yourself into a nice hot shower with soap and a good scrubber cloth or exfoliating sponge and do an all over good job of rubbing your body down to displace any little hitch hikers.
If you prefer a bath do not use any sort of chemicals such as bleach, but do use the scrubbing method described above.
If you are one of those who really do not think about or believe that what you put on your body is the equivalent of putting into your body then by all means use whatever chemicals you like to prevent or get rid of chiggers. In this case you can use RID delousing shampoo to do a body wash with then do a complete soap and scrubbing shower.
No matter how you feel regarding your own health, please do not use this stuff on children.
Heat from a hair drier directed at the source of the itch for a couple of minutes as hot as you can without burning the skin will help to alleviate the itching. Some forms of anti itch creams work for a few hours. Crushed aspirin, moistened and applied to the bite seems to help. It has been reported diaper rash ointment and petroleum jelly also works well to stop the itching.
There are several natural chigger treatments obtainable, not all of which this article has time to address.
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