Bets advice, load up on 2 things

High concentration of deed for your skin and

Lots of cans of permethrin insect reppelant for clothing.

The last one works very well for cloting and i usually spray on my shoes or boots, since thats how chiggers climb on you if you dont sit on gras. Chiggers are extremely bad this year due to rain and high grass.

If you get bitten use vick vapo rub, and apply liquid bandade in it before going to bed.
I dont mind a half dozen of bites or so, but my buddy has over 200....
He is in pain...

He could try taking a bath with a little bleach in it.

I was out shooting and fishing a few weeks ago wearing shorts and low cut shoes without socks. They tore my ankles up.

I always carry a sulfur sock to the field this time of year. Pat down the ankles and lower legs as well as around the waste. Not quite as toxic as deet and permethrin.

I read that chiggers are so small they crawl through clothing fibers including socks. I need to pack my deed tomorrow, im out fishing for crappie in the mornin

It never fails that I get them every year no matter how hard I try to avoid and repel them. They are one of the things that I wonder about why God put them on this earth.

For overall protection take a sulfur pill before the outing. I also have used a flea/tick collar on each leg outside the pants for weekend trips.

I always spray my boots with WD 40. Keeps the Chiggers and Fire Ants off me. If i get them, I paint a little fingernail polish on the bite. I use clear fingernail polish! Get my wife to buy some every spring. Nothing gets you ribbed more by fishing buddies then neon green fingernail polish on you legs. Had teenage duaghters at home at that time.lol

If you get them..Fill the tub and take a bleach bath with � cup of bleach. It kills them on contact..My guess most everyone on here needs a bath anyway

When on active duty and doing some time in the field we would get into the ocean or in the brachish water and that would help a ton. Best stuff ever was the military issue bug repellant, one application would last days in the field, however it's a known carconogen.

Chiggers don'w bite me. I bite them. They ask why God put me on this earth.

I keep telling em, it was for the BBQ!

I have a bad case currently. I usually use OFF Deep Woods with deet. It usually does the trick. I was in a hurry to start clearing brush and forgot my pre work routine. Leason learned, I will make sure I remember next time.

Chiggers make a good snack in the afternoon.

...man i need to get back to work.

Permethrin....one application will last on your clothes for 2-3 washings.

Some clothing mfg such as Columbia have socks, shirts, underwear, and pants with it already in them

I was told they are NO longer called chiggers, they are now refered to as Insect Americans. Carry On

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I have had them already twice this year and sure I'll get them again this coming weekend at the ranch.

also remember chiggers don't actually crawl into your skin, they are little baby mites that feed on your skin leaving an enzyme. They then fall off to become nymphs and carry on as normal. You start itching long after they are gone. Chigger spit is what causes the itch.

chigger spit? i dunno if i should feel excited or violated!

If you happen to forget your repellant, when you get back in your truck take your ordinary hand sanitizer and rub it in like lotion. The alcohol will kill every one of the little suckers before they have time to really do some damage.

This WORKS! My buddy used "Off" before we got in to our hog blind and I completely forgot. When I got in the truck I used the hand sanitizer. He did not. The next day he was COVERED in chigger bites!

Deet, Permethrin, sulfur and the bleach bath have always worked. A few years ago I found that Listerine (once you are bitten) causes the itch to stop and aides healing. Couple swabs with the old amber tongue twister and problem solved!

I got a case of the chiggers a month ago. I just itched on them for 2 weeks or so and it sucked as usual. Several years ago I tried covering them in nail polish but since that didn't work, at all, I haven't really tried any other post-bite remedies.

Don't walk in tall grass Dave

Sulfer powder

I just soak myself in OFF back woods and it seems to keep me pretty clear of them... but dont get cheap and only spray around your ankles, when you are in tall grass they will jump on you from anywhere.