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saintanneshs
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Posted: June 05 2007 at 3:35pm \| IP Logged

This morning my 2 oldest boys came into my bedroom scratching themselves and complaining. After pulling their shirts up I found no less than hundreds of little red welts all over them. At first I thought it was chicken pox but after calling dh on the phone, realized that their afternoon roll through the fresh hay (yesterday) introduced them to chiggers.

I've never seen so many bites in my life.

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Posted: June 05 2007 at 7:18pm \| IP Logged

They are really bad around here this year. The ticks, too.

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Posted: June 05 2007 at 9:04pm \| IP Logged

Oh the ticks this year are really bad

No chiggers thankfully, but nightly we de-tick!

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Posted: June 06 2007 at 5:58am \| IP Logged

Put clear fingernail polish on the chigger bites. This will suffocate the little pests and help with the itching. We have not had chiggers here in years however, I took 5 ticks off of my dd clothes last week. A good way to get a biting tick off is to put liquid soap on a cotton ball and place it on the tick. It will release from the skin and stick to the cotton ball. FYI

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Posted: June 06 2007 at 6:06am \| IP Logged

Anne wrote:

A good way to get a biting tick off is to put liquid soap on a cotton ball and place it on the tick. It will release from the skin and stick to the cotton ball. FYI

Have you tried this Anne? I read about it somewhere and I thought I heard it did not work. I would love it if it does, I HATE ticks!

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Posted: June 06 2007 at 7:11am \| IP Logged

I have not tried it yet but a friend of mine did and she said it worked like a charm. I have my cotton balls ready though. When I actually try it I'll post the results!

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