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When I was a kid in Tennessee, the bottle of clear nail polish was your 
best friend during chigger season!  And I've used the hot water fix on 
poison ivy/oak since I was a kid too.
Laney

Jo Ann Knight wrote:
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>  
>  My friend who lives in Chigger country just told me that they use
> fingernail polish on the welt where the chigger is and it kills them,
> smothers them or something and it goes away .
>
> I don't know if this is "healthy" to put fingernail polish on skin, but they
> have done it for years.
>
> Anyone else know of this "remedy"?
>
> Jo Ann
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Sharlene Roberts-Caudle
> Date: 09/19/05 08:18:54
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC] poison oak and other itchies-CHEAP remedy
>  
> In Missouri once my husband and I got badly bitten by
> chiggers and affected by poison ivy at the same time.
> It was August, and if you can imagine the horror of
> two sweaty itchy people trying to sleep and snarling
> at one another! I think that I heard this on the
> radio, or maybe the student health center. . . . If
> you use a handheld shower to spray water, as hot as
> you can stand it, on the itchy parts until the itchy
> is gone, you will get about 8 hours of relief. The
> hot water activates the histimine (the cause of the
> feeling of itch) and uses it all up. It takes about 8
> hours for the body to activate enough to itch again.
> It does work, on any itch I've ever had.
> Sharlene
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