Wellness

[Havarti]

@151949  

The best stuff for any itch I have found is called Chiggerex.  It comes in a white jar with a red top and I have always purchased it at Wal-Mart for under $3.00.  This stuff works better than anything else I have ever tried in my life!  I always buy several jars to have on-hand.  If you have a Wal-Mart near by, it is worth a call to see if they carry it and run in for it if they do.  You won’t be sorry. I would post a picture of it for you, but I am too inept (technically speaking) to know how to do it.

[151949]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have been using Sea Breeze but it isn't working. Some of these bite are very large - I don't know what was biting me.

[Krimpette]

You might want to check with one of those walk-in clinics.  I had an "unidentified" bite a couple of years ago and it just didn't look like a normal bite.  They prescirbed a topical ointment that took care of the issue.

[dex]

@151949 I bet you have spider bites...they itch for a loooong time.We put calamine lotion on ours after we wipe them down with apple cider vinegar.

[PINKdogWOOD]

@GenXmuse  When my sibs and I were really little we used the baking soda paste too.  Seemed to worked but I totally agree rubbing alcohol and/or peroxide works woders.

I can also see very much that vinegar would work too - good call on this one.

[Shogirl]

Aloe Vera from Walgreens - green gel in a tube.  I've used it for years for itchy spots and it works great to remove the itch!

[chickenbutt]

If you can take an antihistimine, you could go with that.      

That's the only thing I know for that sort of thing.   Different antihistimines affect different people in different ways.  I'm asthmatic and even with that there are some I can take.  

[GenXmuse]

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@PINKdogWOOD wrote:

@GenXmuse  When my sibs and I were really little we used the baking soda paste too.  Seemed to worked but I totally agree rubbing alcohol and/or peroxide works woders.

I can also see very much that vinegar would work too - good call on this one.

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Thanks, Pinkdogwood!  That was very sweet to point that out!  

[avid shopper]

A baking soda paste

Peroxide with scrubbing soft toothbrush

[Moonchilde]

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@Krimpette wrote:

You might want to check with one of those walk-in clinics.  I had an "unidentified" bite a couple of years ago and it just didn't look like a normal bite.  They prescirbed a topical ointment that took care of the issue.

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Doctors can prescribe higher percentage of cortisone creams than you can buy OTC.

I have decent luck with roll-on Cortizone-10 from the drugstore.

Years ago when I was HIGHLY allergic to flea bites and living with animals years before any of the products used on animals today, I had the doctor prescribe Cordran tape.

It's a corticosteroid in paper tape form. It comes on a roll. You cut it to fit over the area. I got very good at cutting rounds! Once applied the tape becomes almost invisible.  I used to have bite reactions to the size of a quarter and 1/8" high. When I used the Cordran it was put it and forget it. Stopped the itching within about 10-15 min and within 24-48 hrs the bite mark was gone.

Best thing ever, but requires a RX.