So funny: When I think of chiggers, I think of a story I heard once about someone hosting an obnoxious Yankee brother-in-law in town from New Jersey for a few days, had to put him up "and put up with him" in his house. Solution? He arranged a picnic in a certain grassy field. The bro-in-law asked him what he should wear, and the host said he had some Bermuda shorts that should do the trick. Welcome to the South!

Brad

3m ultrathin bug stuff helps me. It has deet in it. For the times I get bit I grab the wifes hair dryer and toast the spot as hot as I can stand and the itching goes away for hours.something about the heat breaking down the enzyme that makes em itch. Works for red ant bites too.

Gonna try!

I can't believe no one said this but get regular salt and put it on a wet rag and rub on for as long as you can take it in the shower there is a small burn that can come with this but nothing that is crazy bad. Itching will go away in less than five minutes. On the bad bites might take a second scrubbing. I wish I knew about this when I Was a kid all that nail polish never came close to working like this. You will see the red bite and bump almost disappear in minutes.

Sulphur does work on the preventive measures.

I put flea collars around my boots. Works and you don't have to worry about spraying yourself every time.

If you can get to a bathtub soon after exposure, then add a couple capfuls of bleach to you bath water. You will smell clean!

Chiggers feed like flies. They inject an enzyme into skin that liquifies skin cells and they just slurp it up. The enzyme is alkaline and bleach is an acid. if done soon enuf the enzyme will be nuetralized. But is you get in chigger country in the morning and stay in it all day, well your just gonna itch. Benadryl tablets or anti-itch cream with cortisone 10 will work the best to help with itchin.

I HATE CHIGGERS!

Bleach has an average pH in the 12 range. Definitely an alkaline.

Vagasil has the highest concentration of benzocaine of all the OTC creams that I have found.It works decently. I am definitly gonna try the bleach trick next time I get bit up.

The sulfur in a sock works great. May Daddy keep a jar with small holes punched in the top and we would sprinkle it on our shoes and the bottom of out pants.

As a kid we would take a bath with the old bar of soap "Palmolive Gold" and that stopped the chigger itch. It was something in that stuff that really worked.