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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2004Chigger Bites
Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch and then be washed away with showers or cold running stream baths!! Charleen and the cats who want no part of camping! > Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it > all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch > and then be washed away with showers or cold running stream baths!! Do I want to know what chiggers are? Yowie (whatever they are, we don't have them here. Only deadly snakes, spiders, fish, jellyfish, crocs...) >> Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it >> all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Yowie (whatever they are, we don't have them here. Only deadly snakes, >spiders, fish, jellyfish, crocs...) It's a kind of mite. Some sources I've seen say they're most common in the southern US, but I can tell you from experience that they're in the midwestern US in large numbers too! <g> This is a link kids health site aimed at kids, but it also provides a very understandable explanation about chiggers, what they do, how to deal with their bites, and how to avoid them. http://kidshealth.org/kid/ill_injure/aches/chigger.html (it's 3 short pages, so don't forget to click the Next Page links ^_^) Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha http://www.jhedge.com > >> Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it > >> all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > (it's 3 short pages, so don't forget to click the Next Page links ^_^) *eep* Yowie > > Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it > > all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Yowie (whatever they are, we don't have them here. Only deadly snakes, > spiders, fish, jellyfish, crocs...) Probably not. I've never even had contact with one and I itch just from reading about them. Jo >> Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it >> all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Yowie \ Actually, Yowie, I don't think any of us have ever seen one either. They're too small to see w/out a magnifying glass :-) Sherry > Do I want to know what chiggers are? When people here started to talk about chiggers, I did a Google image search and EEUCH!! I wish I hadn't. They're like ticks only even more disgusting.  SignatureMarina, missing Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki >>Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it >>all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Yowie (whatever they are, we don't have them here. Only deadly snakes, > spiders, fish, jellyfish, crocs...) I didn't know what chiggers were either, but someone (was it Steve?) posted an excellent link on anything you'd possibly want to know about the little buggers: http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/arthopo/chiggers/ I don't think we have chiggers in Finland, but reading about them made me itch all over... SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 Laku: DS B G 4.11 Y L W C+ I+++ T++/- A+ E H+ S+ V++ F Q+ P- B PA PL >Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it >all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch Thank *you* for the reminder. My mom used to put fingernail polish on us. I wish Id remembered that after the recent chigger attack....It was miserable for a week. Sherry >Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it >all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch >and then be washed away with showers or cold running stream baths!! > >Charleen >and the cats who want no part of camping! Yes a critter that I would not mind seeing on the endangered species list. I've got a great chigger bite story to make y'all itch! It was July of 1993 and I was in central Oklahoma, on the way to visit Arkansas from Arizona. I had been in Arizona - where there are no chiggers - for almost 5 years and had forgotten that chigger exist. I slept in the back of my van in a big empty field. It was extremely hot, so I slept naked. In the morning I got up, groggy, and stumbled out to empty my bladder, squatting in the tall grass, then fell back into bed for a while. By the next night, I was scratching every inch of my body constantly. I must have had at least a thousand bites. This went on for a full week and completely ruined my trip. I simply could not sleep. Finally, in desperation I lathered myself with Caladryl lotion - which didn't help one bit! It occurs to me that instead of sending criminals to prison, they should be rolled in grassy meadows in Oklahoma once a week for however long they are sentenced. > Thank you everyone for all the chigger bite information. Thankfully, it > all comes back to the fingernail polish which will do away with the itch > and then be washed away with showers or cold running stream baths!! > > Charleen > and the cats who want no part of camping! >It occurs to me that instead of sending criminals to prison, they should be >rolled in grassy meadows in Oklahoma once a week for however long they are >sentenced. Let me guess. You're *not* aspiring to employment with the Oklahoma Tourism Council. LOL. Or Arkansas either! Sherry > >It occurs to me that instead of sending criminals to prison, they should be > >rolled in grassy meadows in Oklahoma once a week for however long they are [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Sherry Right. Let them give me a job with the Correctional system! |
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