The thing is: they cause tremendous itching & there fore you scratch and usually rake the bugs off but now you have this horrible bump that itches WORSE than if the "red bug" were still there. The Epsom salt will soothe all of that. I don't know exactly the mechanism but it does. Last year I got into poison ivy where the whole top of one foot was a zillion blisters. All I thought about was scratching. I did a little research on the net and found that the area is acidic so the soak pulls that out so I used ES & hydrogen peroxide which adds oxygen and therefore bringing a more alkaline balance to the area. By the third day, I was almost well. No drugs, no over the counter stuff except ES and peroxide. I buy ES by the 5 lb buckets because of all the things we use it for. Last year my grandson worked in boots in the heat last summer and got some sort of rot on the bottom of one of his feet. It looked as if the toes were rotting away from the foot. I used this same approach and he was good to go in 3 days. It amazed even his Mom who is an RN and his step dad who is a Nurse Practitioner. It is all about the acid/alkaline thing. Oh, I did put coconut oil on the effected after each treatment to help create an alkaline barrier. Edith In a message dated 6/22/2010 8:07:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time, marmar...@bellsouth.net writes:
Really Edith? What exactly does this do? MA (who lives in chigger-heaven) ____________________________________ From: "ejohns9...@aol.com" _ejohns9...@aol.com_ (mailto:ejohns9...@aol.com) Soak in a tub of warm/hot water with 3 cups Epsom salt added for at least 20 minutes. This even works for poison ivy but you may have to do it 2 or 3 days. Edith
