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cloggingrandma Joined: 8/03/2007 Location: Northwest, Ohio Posts: 72	Posted: Jun/29/2008 10:19 AM PST As for the listerine keeping away mosquitos. It does work. I also use the dollar store brand, cheaper. It does not however keep away the biting flies. I told a friend about it and her sister used it before a cook out. Just put it in a spray bottle and sprayed her deck area. Said they had NO mosquitos at all for their cookout. I just spray it on my skin before I go to the garden. You only smell like listerine for about 5 minutes. I have been using the beer concocsion on my plants and haven't had problems with bugs so far. Quote \| Reply \| Report

stereoman Joined: 3/17/2008 Location: beautiful southern appalachians Posts: 2168	Posted: Jun/29/2008 12:19 PM PST I don't mind the smell of Listerine at all. I've been using it for so long, it just reminds me of not having bad breath. Heck of a lot better than Citronella! Quote \| Reply \| Report

blink Joined: 5/22/2008 Location: Texas Posts: 109	Posted: Jun/29/2008 12:41 PM PST how do I make the chiggers go away??? I hate them so much and the bites BURN! probably something I am just going to have to live though in the summer when it rains but they are so awful and then got the baby good yesterday, his legs look like polka dotted, he is sad. Quote \| Reply \| Report

poeticpeony Joined: 4/04/2006 Location: NE Ohio, deck chuckin' fool Posts: 9437 Moderator	Posted: Jun/29/2008 1:05 PM PST See, you should send him up to me, blink'. Not as many nasty bugs. I can tell him tales about his mom then, too. I had a nasty spider bite on my ankle that swelled up for a few days and itched like crazy. I finally put some aloe with lidocaine on it and then some hydrocortisone cream on it. The lidocaine numbed it so it would quit itching. It worked and it hasn't been bothering me. I don't know if that's something you can use on the baby, but it might help. Quote \| Reply \| Report

cloggingrandma Joined: 8/03/2007 Location: Northwest, Ohio Posts: 72	Posted: Jun/30/2008 7:25 AM PST My husband had chiggers on his ankles before and we put clear finger nail polish on them. It smothers them. But also, don't know if it would be good to put on a baby. Quote \| Reply \| Report

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