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Originally Posted by NickM
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If you want to take a hike in a chigger infested area, you might try shorts and some mineral oil. Chiggers can't crawl on it and definately can't swim through it.
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Welcome to Wild Texas -- fabulous first post, and so timely! My poor chicklet (one-year-old, Sara) has three chigger bites she mysteriously picked up after a fifteen minute jaunt in my parents' backyard yesterday after the rains. We stayed out of tall grass and the like, but my dad did some brush cutting and removing recently so I guess the chiggers were displaced every which way. Obviously with a one-year-old preventive options are limited, but I love the mineral oil idea and will have to try that during our camping trip this Friday ('cuz apparently my little sweetie is a chigger magnet like her daddy; Justin has the same experiences you do when we're out in the 'wilds'.)
I used mineral oil to help soften scar tissue after knee surgery, and during pregnancy and post-pregnancy to minimize/mitigate stretchmarks and taut, painful skin, so I already know the wonders of it and how you don't feel it.