INSECT PROBLEMS (TICKS, CHIGGERS, MOSQUITOS, BEES)

 

Bee and Wasp Stings:

 

Topical treatments:

-Put a drop of peppermint or eucalyptus oil on sting.

 

-Hold a slice of onion on the sting for a few minutes.

 

-Make a paste of baking soda and water and apply it to the sting.

 

-Sprinkle an alka-seltzer tablet with enough water to make it fizzy and then lay it on the sting.

 

-Rub the sting with a handful of grass release the chlorophyll.

 

-Use wet snuff or tobacco on the sting.

 

-Use wet meat tenderizer as a poultice on the sting.

 

-Make a paste out of crushed aspirin and apply it to the sting to draw out venom.

 

-Drink 7-up immediately to avoid allergic reaction.

 

-Squeeze a bit of lemon juice onto the sting.

 

 

Ticks:

-Cover an attached tick with Vaseline to make them back out.

 

-Cover the tick with clear nail polish to suffocate them.

 

-Burn with a needle, point of knife, or other pointed metal objects, heated very hot and touched to the ticks back. The tick will retreat.

 

-Twist out counter clockwise as a last resort.

 

-Cider vinegar in the diet encourages ticks to find other victims.

 

-The color blue seems to attract some of the tick species.

 

 

Chiggers:

-Take a shower immediately after being exposed to chiggers and you will wash most of them off.

 

-Chiggers attach where ever clothing is tight on the body: socks, waistline, underwear line, wrists, and collars.

 

-Treat chigger bites with oil of pennyroyal.