posted on July 25, 2000 01:42:58 PM new
Bunnicula... I'm sorry, I forgot to put the http:// in front of it. It was trying to find a file named www.colgin.com on the AuctionWatch server.
I just went to the colgin site and checked for the correct url to the page... and can't find it. Here's another place you can order it online:
posted on July 25, 2000 02:20:39 PM newBunnicula
Try a product called After Bite. It is available at most drugstores. It comes in a small tube - like a magic marker - with a pocket clip. It's made by Tender Corp. of Littleton NH. The active ingredient is ammonia. Smells strong, works great. My mosquito-magnet husband swears by it!
posted on July 25, 2000 02:59:37 PM new
bunnicula - I have a new, unused bottle that I could mail to you if you can't get it from one of the sources katiep has provided. If you wish to contact me, just click on my userid name here and email me. I'll get it out in tomorrow's mail....going to town anyway.
Was telling my husband about your plight and he said I had it reversed. He bought the Chigarid at Walmart and the After Bite at Ponders.
So you might want to give your local WalMart's pharmacy a call and see if they have it in stock. Ours here gets a batch, but it sells out so quickly that I've learned to call ahead and be sure it's instock. (We're out in the country.)
posted on July 25, 2000 08:53:44 PM newKatieP: Thanks again! For some reason your first link doesn't work for *me*, but the second two did. I am going to see if Linda_K's suggestion of Walmart is spot on for my area. If not, I will buy from one of the other two sources.
Linda_K: Thank you for your kind offer! It looks I will be able to get this stuff one way or the other, though. And really after my harrowing experience, I wouldn't want anyone to find themselves without bite relief in the house!!
Thank you all for your moral support--I was literally ready to start gouging out flesh this weekend! I don't ever remember being "gotten" this badly...
posted on July 25, 2000 09:01:27 PM new
If you strike out in your search for that product, you might be interested in knowing about this--from a newsgroup posting I found online:
"Another product that 1) Kills the chigger while it is biting (which can be for 1 to 4 days), 2)stops the itch, and 3)treats any infection that may occur from scratching the bite is Chiggerdigger. The only place you can buy it is on the web at http://www.galaxymall.com/product/chiggerdigger
Guess the old baking-soda poultice remedy just doesn't cut it for modern-day bugbites. Good luck licking the itch. So to speak.
posted on July 25, 2000 10:09:53 PM newPareau: Judging by the immense size of the bumps & the ferociousness of the itch they caused, I am beginning to believe that I was the victim of mutant, killer mosquitoes...no mere baking soda solution had a chance against that!
experience, I wouldn't want anyone to find themselves without bite relief in the house!! 