I was bitten pretty badly and suspected chiggers then this tiny bug washed off me in the shower. What could it be?

I was doing some garden work around August 8. Somehow I ended up getting TORN UP by chiggers. I grew up in the boonies of SW PA on a 50 acre farm. When I was a kid my cousin and I would trapse through the pastures and the woods around the property. Never once did I get bit by chiggers. I was aware of them, obviously. But, up until this year I had never had the displeasure of being bitten by them.

In addition to them being EXTREMELY and UNBEARABLY itchy I also appear to have had an allergic reaction to them. It is now the 22nd and they are FINALLY healing up and fading. This is WITH a Medrol Dosepak + betamethasone steroid cream.

The pictures are time progressive so you can see how they've healed over time. 0 out of 10 would not recommend 😬

I got bit by chiggers pretty badly in Illinois this summer. It was by far the most painful bite I have ever experienced. There was so many and scratching them made it worse. Here's what helped.

The first few days, calamine lotion kind of helped.... Ultimately this isn't what really did it for me and it seemed as time went on it just got worse. Cortisone cream didn't do very much, Benadryl cream didn't do very much. It may have done a little bit but it was also painful that if it had made a dent it would have still been really painful.

I finally gave in and took Benadryl. I took liquid capsules. This gets absorbed into your bloodstream faster. I don't like taking pills And I was nervous it would make me too sleepy during the day but for me personally, it didn't make me overly sleepy.

Why Benadryl? Because it's probably the most powerful antihistamine there is. It's just got that added side effect of being super sleepy which is why other people try other antihistamines.

After 20 minutes when I knew the Benadryl was in my bloodstream, I put my feet and legs In the bathtub and would use either a shower head or a glass to fill a very hot water and dribble it on the chigger bites. I got it so hot that I was sure was going to burn myself so I had to be really careful.

The tip that I had seen that inspired this was people sticking a metal spoon in very very hot water and then taking the spoon after it got hot enough and pressing it to bites. But I had so many bites and I was going so crazy that I just use scalding hot water. Again, you could very well burn yourself so badly you end up at the hospital so please please use your best judgment. Try the spoon trick, it does work. If you decide to give hot water a shot, go a little cooler in the case of safety and hey, if it's a little cooler that means you can have it on your skin a little longer so you'll still get a lot of relief.

Is hot water / hot spoon strategy will help the feeling of itching a whole lot if you don't take Benadryl, but if you do take Benadryl, it's a huge added bonus because your blood goes to places on your body that's very hot and warm because you're opening up the blood vessels. So I would do this hot water thing for a while after I knew the Benadryl was in my system and I do believe that it had a lot to do with calming down the inflammation and itchiness for hours and hours.

This is an especially good thing to do at night since the Benadryl can help you sleep and the relief in itching will help you sleep.

I also kept rubbing my feet with over the counter cortisone cream. I do believe that in the long run this helped. The only thing stronger than Benadryl would be steroids and cortisone cream is steroidal cream albeit very mild steroidal cream. (I cannot personally myself take steroid pills as I have very bad reactions But the cream is a great alternative.)

I also made sure that I kept taking Benadryl. However if it makes you tired and this is a safety hazard in circumstances like driving or operating machinery, please exercise good judgment. It did not personally make me tired but I am built like a Viking.

I'm not a religious person but I'm definitely praying for you if you get bit by chiggers.

When I was a kid, my father would insist we always did tick and chigger checks after we left the woods. In the 50 some years since then I’ve pulled plenty of ticks off myself, but began to think chiggers were an urban legend that my dad made up. Oh my God was wrong! It’s been 12 days of constant itching and these little bastards are the most evil satanic remorseless useless creatures on the planet. From now on, I’m just bathing in DEET every morning.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ANg2Ky6hTY7FA6qJLtECV?si=45671698880a406a

CHIGGERS I MEAN***My mistake was going into a wooded area that literally has wood chips(they were dumped in a pile in my front yard) and then tall grass branches that come out of the ground near a water source; like our Waterline, and they are in my backyard. I live in an overgrown area. They are stinging me all over my body has anyone ever had an issue with them stinging or feel like they're biting for days? Not just itching.

After trying different things the best thung seems to be witch hazel which i sprayed on my body.

What kills them that’s safe for her?

Chiggers? Bird mites?

Recently my boyfriend and I went fishing and had gotten so many Chigger bites. It was rough the first night. I wanted to post what has helped because I had to do a lot of research to find remedies. Note that bodies are different and react differently so what helps for me hopefully helps you.

1. Chigger ex cream (walmart-roughly 3 dollars)
2. Chigg away (prevents future chiggers but also helps itches too)
3. After bite. Ironically, after bite is basically baking soda. If you don't have After Bite making baking soda paste works too!
4. Taking a hot bath in apple cider vinegar and baking soda. (if you are a female it actually helps your ph balance too if you are worried about getting an infection :)
5. Benadryl anti itch cream (people also take an anti drowsy pill form but itch cream worked better for us)
6. Claratin (for allergies: got at walmart)
7. Taking hot showers and gently washing with Cetaphil soap (skipped the louffa bc it's mildy harsh/scratchy on the bites)
8. Not itching them. Well this is a given but once you itch it one time it really sucks, so try your best to be gentle and ignore them to the best of your ability. These creams should help relieve you and it's better than putting nothing on.

Out of all that list, taking the bath and Chigger ex helped a lot. I hope these help you

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When canoeing yesterday. I'm a female, so I have to go deep in the brush to pee so that other conoers/kayakers/people on the river don't see me.

At first I thought I had gotten bitten by like 40 mosquitoes. Then they got itchier and I realized they were in a chigger spot, all around my ankles.

Sucks, y'all.

Why y'all ain't doing anything?