Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with
[Re: Catch22]
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08/19/19 10:19 AM
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I am saying chiggers, if you don't spray your legs, shoes, socks, pants and all when you are in grass and weeds for an extended period they will crawl under your socks, underware you name it, then burrow into your skin. I was a phone guy and when we had a cut cable in a ditch and were there for a long time I got eaten up and they last forever. Try painting them with chigger rid or clear fingernail polish
"Where Can A Man Find Bear Beaver And Other Critters Worth Cash Money When Skinned?"
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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with
[Re: white17]
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08/19/19 01:51 PM
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I read to heat a nickel under hot water and apply it to a bite. The heat breaks down the protein that makes it itch then it don't itch no more. The same thing I'm sure. Pretty neat. I don't know if this will help with chigger itch but it puts an end to mosquito itch immediately and forever.
I you're a smoker ( lets hope not) get a ciggy burning and hold it as close to the bite as possible without touching the skin. Hold it as long as you can stand it but don't burn yourself. A match works too if you don't smoke. Foolproof on mosquitoes. Give it a try
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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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08/19/19 11:45 PM
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This is after the fact but I got this from a logger. If I am doing something in the woods/weeds/brush in the summer I use bug spray but also duct tape. Duct tape around your ankles(pant-boot area), fly of pants, and front pockets. It may look ridiculous but it works. Works with mosquitoes. Growing up there were a couple of summers where the mosquito population was nuts, you could see clouds of mosquitoes. Working the fields in 105°+- was no fun dressed like that. Picking Chile and corn by hand was brutal
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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with
[Re: squacks]
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08/20/19 08:49 PM
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Back in high school some of the guys used a mixture called quell. Never used it myself as I enjoy a good itch now and again. Zim
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Re: Unusual bug bites I need help with
[Re: Catch22]
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08/20/19 08:54 PM
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Lol Zim, you can have some of my itch, I'll share. I'm gonna get some of that stuff Jerry showed and I have to say the bleach helped calm things some.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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