Chiggers Information - Symptoms And Herbal Home Treatment

Herbal home remedies for the treatment of chiggers

• Simple home remedy for chiggers - Bordeaux's Butt Paste works great at removing the itch & redness! I had over 100 bite to one leg. I was willing to try anything! Someone (on this site) mentioned something about Desitin. I will only use Butt Paste on my daughter's diaper rash and figured I would give it a try. The redness and itching subsided almost instantly!
• Good home remedy for chiggers - Keep the bitten areas thoroughly clean with plenty of water and soap. Follow with a paste made of baking soda and water. Elevate the affected areas (if possible) to reduce swelling.
• Hot water is an effective remedy to stop itching.
• Effective home remedy for chiggers - Grow the herb pennyroyal (a member of the mint family) and use the leaves by crushing them in your hands then rubbing it on your skin. This will prevent chiggers.
  
• Natural home remedy for chiggers - flowers of sulfur (sublimed sulfur from a pharmacy) can be sprinkled on socks, shoes and pants legs to deter chiggers. One gentleman keeps a shallow pan of sulfur powder on his back porch and steps into it on his way out to the back yard. Spraying legs and feet with DEET also works.
• Known by some as the best home remedies for chigger bites. Take 400 I.U. of vitamin E and you can expect comfort within 15 minutes. Take 200 I.U. every three or four hours until the bites clear up.
• Products that contain local anesthetics and analgesics also effectively alleviate symptoms for most people. Consult your physician or pharmacist for further assistance is choosing which product to use.
• Herbal home remedy for chiggers The picking blackberries in the woods and our physician told us to put clear fingernail polish on the bites. This worked pretty quick and gave a lot of relief.
• An important property of any remedy is to seal the wound from air. That's why some home treatments involve applying nail polish or roll-on deodorant. One reader said he used an anti-hemorrhoidal cream; another suggested meat tenderizer. Calamine, Vaseline, cold cream and baby oil also keep air from the site and may be effective for chiggers.