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Chiggers and poison oak. I don’t know how much longer I’ve got. Somebody look after my dogs... 😢

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I been setting in bleach water so much this year till I am bleach blonde from the waist down and it ain't a bit funny.



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The mental image ain't a bit funny either

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I’m picturing hulk hogan. I’m bleached out too so I’ll be Ric flair cuz I’m from NC. Whooooooooooooooo!!

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Good news is, after awhile your body becomes used to it. As a land surveyor and coon hunter I stay ate up with chiggers. I can look at pine straw and get them on me. Luckily I don't get poison ivy. Try dawn dish detergent while showering on your lower body don't wipe off just apply and rinse seems to keep them at bay a little. Also Vicks vapor rub on boots and belt as a preventive. It's always the first time of the year when I get into the 100+ chigger grove I question my mental stability.

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If poison ivy ,poison oak or sumac bothered me I would get that shot every year. It's like a flu shot you take it once a year.

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I feel your pain, I am so allergic to poison ivy, oak, and chiggers that I quit hunting in the summer months. The only way that I don't get chiggers is to bathe in bleach water and I hate the smell of bleach. Lol. Dave

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Why in the world are you taking a bath in bleach for chiggers?

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Diesel is better than bleach. They can’t stand diesel. I keep an old rag and a jug of off-road beside my kennels and wipe myself and the dogs down good before and after every hunt.

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Why in the world are you taking a bath in bleach for chiggers?

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Lol. Adding bleach to bath water is the only way I can be sure of not getting chiggers on myself, showers do not help, I still get them. Dave

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Take a bath in bleach or have chiggers.If that is my choices I'll take the chiggers.No way would I take a bath in bleach

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You only pour a little bleach in the bath watermelon still smell the bleach though. Lol. I hate chiggers worse than the smell of bleach! Dave

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Ain't nothing working this year I even spray inside my boots and everybody in several states is having the same problem this year I get them every time I go.



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Gotcha, soap and water works for me.

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I've never heard of such a thing I had to Google it lol. You guys can keep your chiggers. I seen a guy dosing the diesel fuel to himself one time at work but I think he had the crabs lol. I was worried Tar mighta caught something on Facebook.

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Donnie I never caught those but my brother did and I had to go get the medicine I bet that stuff would kill chiggers the way it smelled lol.




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Chiggers are worse than mosquitos their bites are much larger and itch like crazy. They actually live under the skin and you have to use something like chigger rid or fingernail polish [clear] to cover the bite in order to kill them. You are indeed lucky to not have chiggers, wish we didn't. Dave

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The government could do away with water boarding, do chigger boarding, put a few chiggers on there privates then tie there hands so they couldn’t scratch and I promise he will tell you everything he knows LOL.

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I bit the bullet and bought some Elimitick pants and hooded sweatshirt a few years ago and can honestly say that I have not had a tick or chigger on me while wearing them. But I don't think they would do much for the poison oak or poison ivy.

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Lol. You got that right, I would tell them things that I didn't even know! Dave

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