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Stvrob · June 9, 2015

I have found relief from chiggers and seed ticks using hot water. As hot as you can stand it, and then a little bit hotter still. It provokes a histamine response in your skin that will itch , you will get like 10 hours worth of itch happening in about 1 minute. But...after the hot water is gone, your skin's ability to create histamine is pretty much spent, and you will have hours of relief. My ankles seem to be perpetually chigger bit, and I use of those hose sprayer things that hook to the bathtub water spout to direct blasts of scorching hot water.

You may need to bump the hot water heater up a few degrees, in the 130 range is about right.

June 9, 2015	#34
Stvrob Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 1,413	I have found relief from chiggers and seed ticks using hot water. As hot as you can stand it, and then a little bit hotter still. It provokes a histamine response in your skin that will itch , you will get like 10 hours worth of itch happening in about 1 minute. But...after the hot water is gone, your skin's ability to create histamine is pretty much spent, and you will have hours of relief. My ankles seem to be perpetually chigger bit, and I use of those hose sprayer things that hook to the bathtub water spout to direct blasts of scorching hot water. You may need to bump the hot water heater up a few degrees, in the 130 range is about right.