Red Bumps

[Synergy21]

absolutly ive had em before i used to hitchhike alot and sometimes in the summer we'd be to tired or to drunk to set up the tent and would crash under the stars woke up in bonner springs kansas one AM covered with the lil f#$%ers it was my mom that turned me on to the nail polish remover thing she said it suffactes em it's been used for chiggers for yrs

Would I be able to see the chiggers feel them?

[Synergy21]

Some get poison ivy very easily.

Expose any area of my skin, even an inch, to PI & I get the crap. My better half can hold it & not get it.

it affects people differently.

pretty sure its not poison ivy, i cant remember ever getting it, and ive walk through lots of in, in shorts.

[ZigZagZeppelin]

I'd put cortizone on it & see if that clears it up. If u still have the shit after 3-4 days maybe see a doc?

[ezjim]

Would I be able to see the chiggers feel them?

http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/...hopo/chiggers/ go to this link there is a picture and info about them at this site dont worry it is nothing serious but it is very uncomfortable hey could be worse ya could have gotten the crabs

[mynameismike0]

ya man chiggers are nothing to worry about they just itch like mad. they're like mosquitoes sort of. except what they do is lay their eggs inside of your body (or so i hear) and thats what makes you itch. i really hope thats not true...

what show were u at?

[ezjim]

Chiggers first show up as annoying red bumps. An itch begins. It grows. More hard red welts surface. From your feet and ankles upward, and especially at those tender locations your mother told not to scratch in public, a maddening itch takes hold.

Savage scratching begins. Every welt becomes a persistent, exquisitely itching preoccupation that continues to irritate for days and even weeks. You probably recognize these symptoms of chigger bites. Yet we never see the culprits responsible for this summertime agony. What are chiggers? Why do they bite us? How can we stop that horrible itching?

Myths about chiggers are widespread. Many believe chiggers are some type of bug. Folklore tells us they burrow under our skin and die, that they drink our blood and that they can best be killed by suffocation with nail polish or bathing with bleach, alcohol, turpentine or salt water. Surprisingly, all these popular facts are just plain wrong.

Chiggers are not bugs or any other type of insect. Chiggers are the juvenile (or larval) form of a specific family of mites, the Trombiculidae. Mites are arachnids, like spider and scorpions, and are closely related to ticks.

Chigger mites are unique among the many mite families in that only the larval stage feeds on vertebrate animals; chiggers dine on us only in their childhood, and later become vegetarians that live on the soil.

Chiggers are tiny-less than 1/150th of an inch in diameter. More than a thousand of them could line up across this page and still leave room for two or three hundred more. At this size, chiggers are almost invisible to the unaided eye. However, when several chiggers cluster together near an elastic waistband or wrist watch they can be seen because of their bright red color.

Chiggers are born red; they do not become red from feeding on blood as some believe. An engorged, well-fed chigger changes to a yellow color.

Under the microscope, you can see that the chigger is an ugly little creature (if it was larger, it could star in any science fiction movie). Although adult chigger mites have eight legs, the troublesome young chiggers has only six.

[smokey69]

[B]dang thats crazy well im high and it
just seems alittle funny to...............
............lmfao its a personal problem...lol?

[ezjim]

yea buts it's still better than havin the crotch critters

[Synergy21]

So, I could have gotten these at the concert? They just chill in the grass like bastards?
It was Dave Matthews BTW.

And thanks for the help so far guys.

[mynameismike0]

yea they definitely chill in the grass like bastards. they loooove to work their way into hidden places, like ur waistline on ur pants, under your socks, etc