Demons Have Invaded My Body

“Chiggers, chiggers, chiggers!!! $h!t, I do this to myself every year! I'm covered, ankles to armpits! I use Band-Aid Rhuli gel, anyone else got any good remedies?”

“scratch.”

“Don't hike in summer, fool!”

“Try a small exposure of ionizing radiation... something along the >~ 4Gev/nucleon.

In case you do not have access to uranium 242, the alternate therapy would be to soak the affected area in Vodka and then rub a mixture of lime and tonic immediately following the Vodka... it won't make the parasites go away, but at least you will be giving them a good time!

Just a suggestion.”

“Go to the market and buy Octagon soap. Shower with it until they are gone. It usually takes a day or two. It is an old fashion soap if you never used it. White wrapper with black and red lettering I believe. Burns your eyes if you get it in them.”

“You don't need to continually shower until they are gone, just use it when you shower.”

“Got stung by 40 or 50 yellowjackets a few years ago. Rubbed raw onion all over myself and the itching and swelling stopped immediately. I've heard jewelweed works well ,too. Don't know if these will work on chiggers, but there's worse things in life than smelling like an onion.”

“Caladryl will make the itching go away. To make them go away follo these ancient demon expulsion instructions.
Under the light of a full moon......”

“I have heard ammonia works well to kill the itching. I have used it for mozzies and it seemed to work OK.”

“Put a small dab of clear nail polish on each chiggers,they back right outta ya.”

“yeah what Hyper said! Dag Hyper you and I must think alot alike LOL!”

“I don't know how to get rid of them.
Hibernate till Fall comes then go out & play.”

“You'll need a razor, lighter fluid, matches and an ice pick.

Now shave half of yer pubic area...
Pour and light the lighterfluid on the other half...
When the chiggers come running out of the inferno, stab 'em with the ice pick.”

“Advice from Dr Buddur.”

“Buddur, i did that once. It wasnt pretty.”

“Swedish meatballs are not supposed to be "pretty", hyperpacker ”

“m-nuts,
At least you are not alone. I'm covered! Went BPing at East Fork last weekend and haven't stop scatchin' my butt since. I've got take a bath in ammonia water,the fingernail polish thing(got a gallon?)and one I think I might really try next time...powder yourself with sulfer BEFORE you go weed thrashing next time. I think I've got poison ivy too...thats what I get for getting naked down by the lake...it was worth it!”

“Yall Krazy!”

“What I've always heard is that the itch and bump are just what the chiggers leave behind. You don't hafta torture yourself to get rid of the chigger... just do something to relieve the itch.”

“OK... here is more detail (from:
invisible demonic beings


"The best precaution against chigger bites is simply taking a warm soapy bath with plenty of scrubbing as soon as possible after
exposure. If you bathe at once, while the chiggers are still running over your body, you can wash them off before they bite. A
bath will also remove any attached and feeding chiggers before you start to feel the itch.

Warm soapy water is all that is necessary to remove and kill chiggers. There is no need, and it is rather dangerous, to apply
household products such as kerosene, turpentine, ammonia, alcohol, gasoline, salt or dry cleaning fluid. Don't do it.

Attached chiggers are removed by even the lightest rubbing. If you are away from civilization, you can remove attached
chiggers before they do much damage by frequently rubbing down with a towel or a cloth."”

“I don't remember making a pac with you, what is your name again!!!

MOOOOAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!”

“Thanks for the link PedXing, great info. And good luck to all you other Chigger sufferers.”

“And now I know...the rest of the story. Thanks for the scoop.”

“It's a popular misconception that chiggers burrow into your flesh and to get relief you have to remove them (or smother them with clear nail polish). The truth is, when chiggers bite they leave behind an enzyme that irritates your flesh. Clear nail polish will give you some relief, but not because it's killing the chiggers. The best way to relieve the itching (other than scratching) is to apply Cortizone cream (preferably prescription strength).”

“Chiggers are the larval form of the harvest mite. The adult feeds on the juices of plants, but the larva requires a meal of mammal protoplasm in order become a nymph. You whisk through the shady tall grass. Hairs on the legs of the chiggers catch in the fibers of your clothing and now the chigger is on you. Instinctively the chigger crawls upward. Thousands are bounced back to earth by your physical activity, but those that have found your skin continue to climb until they find soft skin with hair on it, like the backs of your knees or your ankles or your groin region.

Here comes the gross part. The chigger latches onto one of your hairs and pukes into the follicular pore at the base of the hair. Chigger puke contains an enzyme which dissolves the cell wall of those lower skin cells. Cells rupture and protoplasm runs out. The chigger laps up the protoplasm, burps, releases his grip, falls to the forest floor and begins his transformation into a harvest mite nymph.

The itchy red bump is your allergic reaction to chigger puke. By the time the bump appears the chigger is long gone and there's not much you can do but suffer with it.”

“Pull every last one of them off of you, or it will never end!”

“Maybe it was cause I was being naughty
but, one day demons invaded my body
I was caught up in the throws and didn`t have a care
and the next thing I know the demons caught me there
they took over my skin and they got into my mind
I broke out in a cold sweat and about went blind
I came away with more than I ever thought I`d find
oops, that was when I found love, sorry, nevermind”