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Chiggers have eaten me up!

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Greg1959

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Been out working bush hogging fence rows and grassy areas. My right leg, from my knee to my toes, is plum eat up with chiggers.

I always used nail polish to cover the chigger bites before and it worked well.

Now, my exposure is a much larger area and finger nail polish is not enough to cover this expanse of skin affected.

I got to thinkin'.

Since finger nail polish is lacquer that is thinned with Acetone....


Anyway, I bought me a spray can of Krylon Clear Acrylic and sprayed my leg down. Now my leg has that high gloss sheen that many car enthusiasts long for. Maybe, next I'll add some pin stripes or flames! LOL



At least the itching has subsided!!!
 
(quoted from post at 18:54:32 05/09/15) Been out working bush hogging fence rows and grassy areas. My right leg, from my knee to my toes, is plum eat up with chiggers.

I always used nail polish to cover the chigger bites before and it worked well.

Now, my exposure is a much larger area and finger nail polish is not enough to cover this expanse of skin affected.

I got to thinkin'.

Since finger nail polish is lacquer that is thinned with Acetone....


Anyway, I bought me a spray can of Krylon Clear Acrylic and sprayed my leg down. Now my leg has that high gloss sheen that many car enthusiasts long for. Maybe, next I'll add some pin stripes or flames! LOL



At least the itching has subsided!!!
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When I was building golf courses my crews and I used bleach for chiggers,poison ivy, and poison oak. Dries up poison ivy overnight and gets rid of chiggers quickly. Just wiped it on with a rag
 
Chiggers can drive you nuts. We don't have them as bad here in Iowa but i sure did learn my lesson in Oklahoma. Was in sputhwest Oklahoma laying under combines doing repairs in this grassy area by an old cotton gin that we used as a headquarters. A few days later i got this terribly itchy rash on my back and upper thighs with a few red ones down farther on my legs. By looking in the mirror i could count fifty red spots and im sure there were more i couldnt see. I finally figured out it was chigger bites. Calamine lotion was my friend for the next week or so. I never did get out of Oklahoma with at least a few bites through the years we cut there and i NEVER laid in the grass again.
 
I had a bout of them last year. First time I'd had them since I was a kid.

To make matters a million times worse... A few days later I got into poison oak! Guess the poison oak juice was on my hands, then I went to scratching chiggers, managed to spread the poison oak to places I can't mention! I was so miserable, tried every remedy known, even went for a mega steroid shot. All it relieved was my bank account! LOL

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Haven't gotten into those in years and I'm glad too! I will keep your fix in mind because now that I've said that, I'll find them next week (or they will find me).
 
Believe the chigger is long gone by the time you notice the bite swelling. I spray my clothes, boots and hat with DEET before heading out to work and shed work clothes PDQ when coming in for the day. I have to wait until August to brush-hog ponds, fence rows and waterways here as we have geese,rabbits,quail,turkeys, etc. nesting from late March through July. Unfortunately, August is prime chigger population time here, too.
 
Those critter would eat me up during hay season on my Dad's farm in Eastern Kansas. He on the other hand could lay down in the grass and take a nap and not get even one bite. Never understood that. We used white gasoline to cure chiggers and poison ivy. Probably not the wisest thing to use but I am still alive and it worked. Not that I am in West Texas they are not a problem.
 
(quoted from post at 08:35:09 05/10/15) Those critter would eat me up during hay season on my Dad's farm in Eastern Kansas. He on the other hand could lay down in the grass and take a nap and not get even one bite. Never understood that. We used white gasoline to cure chiggers and poison ivy. Probably not the wisest thing to use but I am still alive and it worked. Not that I am in West Texas they are not a problem.
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Chiggers would viciously attack my brother and but they never bothered me.
 
We have here West PA now; never heard of them when I was a kid. Now they pick on me but nobody else in the family. They all get poison ivy and I don't. Must be the smell,eh?
 
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