What makes you think they go into the skin? I have opened many a
pustule, and nothing there but pus. Frankly I am skeptical of such
claims without any evidence or proof, and I dowse it as being 100% false..
http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/arthopo/chiggers/
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.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question488.htm
Chiggers do not burrow under your skin, as many people believe, nor do
they feed on animal blood. They actually feed on the fluids in skin
cells. To get the fluids, they attach themselves to a skin pore or hair
follicle and inject a digestive enzyme that ruptures the cells.
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/dermatologytopics/a/06_chiggers.htm
One of the biggest myths or misconceptions about chiggers is that they
can burrow under your skin and drink your blood. This leads to the
common treatment for chiggers of putting clear nail polish on chigger
bites to suffocate the chiggers. Since chiggers don't actually burrow
under your skin, this 'treatment' is unnecessary.
http://www.medicinenet.com/chiggers_bites/article.htm
A common myth about chiggers is that they burrow into and remain inside
the skin. This is not true. Chiggers insert their feeding structures
into the skin and inject enzymes
<http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15392> that
cause destruction of host tissue. Hardening of the surrounding skin
results in the formation of a feeding tube called a stylostome.
Marshall
Day Sutton wrote:
I can see them too. sometimes need a magnifying glass. but once
under the skin you can no longer see them.....why would nail polish
work if it was only a bite?
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Marshall Dudley
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No they don't. That is an old wive's tale. I can see them with
my necked eye and have been bit hundreds of times and have never
ever seen one under my skin.
Marshall
Day Sutton wrote:
Chiggers (Red Bugs) don't just bite. They burrow into the
skin and stay there feeding.
That's why oils, Vicks, Baths, and Nail Polish work. They
suffocate them. They are red, and cause a Red Bump on the skin...
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Norton, Steve
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Day Sutton
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