Help with Chiggers and Ticks

[Big Mc]

What else is gone?!

Nothing Fool

 

[Steelnecktie]

Missouri dept. of conservation had a article about chiggers. Very interesting, they don't bore under peoples skin like the wives tale says and if it makes you feel better, they only bite people for their first meal, after that they never bite people again.

 

[spclark]

Interesting thread.

Here's a report I'd put a bit of trust in about how b5 affects our bodies. Note the part about excess amounts possibly causing tendency to bleed if you're on anything else that might have a bad interaction.

I've been taking 1000mcg b12 for a few months, seems to help with energy levels later in the afternoon. (Saw a 'study' reporting high doses can cause cancer a couple weeks ago, mostly in smokers, which I was once but not anymore.) Haven't found any attached ticks since I started with it or suffered chigger bites either, though I'm a firm believer in liberal use of Permethrin on clothing since finding a deer tick on my back a couple years ago after a day's practice.

 

[savagedasher]

Have a bad experience Larry?

A. Few red spots lol Larry

 

[rogn]

The permthrin sprays are good advice, just remember to do it. One of the problems with permethrin, if you spray it on your skin is that the skin oils can deactivate it. It can make some folk sick, its basically a nerve toxin. After you get eat up with the little buggers a lot of the old remedies may or may not work. One thing has been a sure thing as far as limiting the discomfort is to kill the little pests. If you bathe the affected area with head louse shampoo it will kill the d&*M things and the itching will go away in a few hours. You can do this without maiming yourself with some of the harsher home remedies.

 

[Txhillbilly]

I have always used Sulphur Powder to keep ticks & chiggers off me. I keep an old sock full of it in a large zip-lock bag in my pickup,and another in the tool box of my ATV. I just beat the sock on my boots,and pants legs when I get to the ranch to hunt or shoot. I never have any ticks or chiggers on me.

 

[KMart]

I have always used Sulphur Powder to keep ticks & chiggers off me. I keep an old sock full of it in a large zip-lock bag in my pickup,and another in the tool box of my ATV. I just beat the sock on my boots,and pants legs when I get to the ranch to hunt or shoot. I never have any ticks or chiggers on me.

That is old school right there. I can remember my Dad using Sulphur on us back in the late 50's when we went hunting. He also would mix some Sulphur in old bacon grease and smearing it on his coon hounds to keep down ticks and fleas. It also kept me from making pets of his working dogs.

 

[hogpatrol]

That is old school right there. I can remember my Dad using Sulphur on us back in the late 50's when we went hunting. He also would mix some Sulphur in old bacon grease and smearing it on his coon hounds to keep down ticks and fleas. It also kept me from making pets of his working dogs.

Ha, I remember that stuff too right next to the epsom salts and he didn't use them to take a bath.

 

[brxbrad]

The only thing that I found that works......My "X" went to Africa with doctors without boarders last year and was instructed to do the following. She never got bit by any insect while there. I use it on my hunting clothes as i enjoy coyote hunting. You can buy clothes with it impregnated with it..... DO NOT SPRAY IT ON YOUR SKIN..

https://travelreadymd.com/how-to-make-your-clothing-insect-repellent/

 

[hogpatrol]

The only thing that I found that works......My "X" went to Africa with doctors without boarders last year and was instructed to do the following. She never got bit by any insect while there. I use it on my hunting clothes as i enjoy coyote hunting. You can buy clothes with it impregnated with it..... DO NOT SPRAY IT ON YOUR SKIN..

https://travelreadymd.com/how-to-make-your-clothing-insect-repellent/

Thanks for the tip. I wasn't aware of the soak method. Been always spraying my clothes. Going to a malaria area in the future and will used this method.

 

[Toolbreaker]

I have always used Sulphur Powder to keep ticks & chiggers off me. I keep an old sock full of it in a large zip-lock bag in my pickup,and another in the tool box of my ATV. I just beat the sock on my boots,and pants legs when I get to the ranch to hunt or shoot. I never have any ticks or chiggers on me.

I'd forgotten about that. I remember my gramps dusting with sulfur around the back of his house & yard so that the gandkids (me & my cousins) could play out there without getting eaten up. We were on our own with the wasps & yellowjackets, though

 

[RO JO]

Once you have insect bites.....use a hair dryer and heat the area as hot as you can stand it for 10 seconds or more. It usually takes a few minutes for the itching to stop. I know how odd this sounds, but it works for me.

 

[ED3]

Thanks for the tip. I wasn't aware of the soak method. Been always spraying my clothes. Going to a malaria area in the future and will used this method.

I started using the Sawyer spray on permethrin this year to control ticks after a bout with Lyme Disease, which is common in the midwest.
I haven't found a tick on me when using it, hiking, mowing brush, cutting firewood in oak/ hardwood forests.

Malaria is carried by mosquitos, for which the stuff had zero effect protecting exposed flesh... face and neck. I had to use a DEET containing spray... 7 - 25%, which worked for several hours after application.