Strategies for keeping chiggers at bay

Dear Doctors: Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. My wife does not garden and is rarely bitten. My son worked with me last weekend and said they don’t bother him.Why not? When we took a walk later, I got bitten again.Dear Reader: “Chiggers” is the name given to an early life stage of trombicul...

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