I know this sounds weird but I have first hand experience with this. My little sister came home with this from a camp one year when we were younger. My mom's best friend... a vet, told my mom to have her bathe with a good flea shampoo (Mycodex is the name of the shampoo my sister used, it is an antiparasitic pet shampoo). It worked! You also need to wash your bedding with hot water and bleach, setting one of those bug foggers (bombs) in your house while nobody is home would be a good idea as well!Does any one know a really good natural home remedy for chigger bites treatment? Not Nail Polish.?
did it stop the itching and burning sensetation cause I relly need a remedy that helps the itching please write back i'm burning
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seriously not bathing in bleach but my granny used to put a dab of bleach on each chigger bite
it works
Itching, hives or welts, and skin redness can be relieved by following the usual treatments for these symptoms. These treatments basically involve the use of hydrocortisone creams or antihistamines. There are also commercially available products as specific treatments for chigger bites.
Time is the best treatment for chigger bite. The feeding tube is what creates a lot of the symptoms and it cannot be removed. However, eventually the body breaks down the skin tissue that forms the tube and the healing begins. This process can take from 10 days to three weeks.
Sometimes chigger-bites form little blisters, and way we treat our bites at that stage is a cotton square wipe with rubbing alcohol, rub the blister until it pops and then daub on some neosporin ointment and put a bandaid on it. Depending on how drastic a reaction you have to chigger bites [sometimes the ';itchy area'; gets as big as a silver dollar!] the alcohol soothes the area, safely pops the little blister, and voila, the itch goes away.
Squirt it with windex. Works like a charm.
tea tree oil for any kind of itchy bites works wonders.
yes a dab of bleach will do the trick and not hurt you.........also Vicks Vapo Rub works well ...... but you need to go to the drugstore and get a commercial over the counter preparation that you need to put all over..... If you just chase around the bites the eggs are in other places and will hatch tomorrow, also wash bedding in bleach every day.... these things can be nasty and spread to other members of the family........ get to the drug store asap
Chickweed is a common plant found in our back yards and is an excellent plant for all sorts of skin irritations.
Lavender and Tyme essential oils are also good.
Another plant that can be used that grows right in our back yard is Broad-leafed Plantain. Just crush the leaves and apply them direct to the skin.
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Camphor ie Campho phenic or something like that is the safest and most effective thing that I have found. The itching is actually the little critter has used an acid to dissolve your flesh (at the risk of sounding crude) but it's true and if you haven't scratched it raw yet then as has been suggested bleach will kill most anything. But the camphor has a little more of a soothing affect.
I've tried using banana peel. It is really good on mosquito bites, so I tried it on chiggers. Not a cure, but it helps enough to keep you from the funny farm. Just cut off the stem near the top of the banana and rub it on the bite.
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