Some Home Remedies For Insect Bites

I used to love going barefoot in the spring as a child. Then, unfortunately, I discovered bees. That made me a lot more careful about walking around barefoot let me tell you!

Have you ever stepped on a bee? It feels like the world’s worst splinter, or a shard of glass. My mom took quick action with baking soda and water paste just minutes after the incident and that helped. Still, I ended up with ten days of home treatment from this, because I’m one of those folks with a bee sting allergy. It was horrible.

First, I had to elevate the foot. It was swollen and sore and keeping it up helped. I also would soak it in warm water with Epsom salts dissolved in it. That was the best, especially when I felt the pins and needles feeling coming back. I am sure that both of these treatments helped a lot.

If you put the baking soda paste on the sting right away it can pull poison out. There are other ways to do that too. I’m not a fan of tobacco, but if you get a bee sting and put some damp tobacco on it, it can pull out some of the venom.

I still swear by baking soda though. It works for all sort of insect bites. Plus if you aren’t allergic, try camphorated oil. That works too. My grandparents used meat tenderizer to make the itching and irritation less severe.

None of these work on chigger bites though. Have you ever been bitten by chiggers? It’s so miserable, there is nothing like the itch of chigger bites! One of the only things that helps is prednisone.

One home remedy that can work is to paint each bite with some nail polish. I’ve been so miserable from chigger bites that I’ve grabbed the first bottle I could reach, but frankly I recommend a bottle of clear nail polish if you want to try this trick.

Even better, try to prevent bites from occurring. Or, at least discourage chiggers from biting you much. Some foods seem to make your sweat less attractive to chiggers. Ginger, marjoram, and cayenne are said to work for this purpose.

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