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Re: [RC] poison oak and other itchies-CHEAP remedy - Laney Humphrey

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:
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
-------Original Message-------
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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Replies
[RC] poison oak and other itchies-CHEAP remedy, Sharlene Roberts-Caudle
Re: [RC] poison oak and other itchies-CHEAP remedy, Jo Ann Knight