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How to deal with summertime itch

Posted on Jul 10th 2007 8:00PM by Bethany Sanders

Filed Under: Healthy Home, Diet & Weight Loss

Summer is a great time for outdoor adventures, but stepping out into the wild may wreak havoc on your body. Poison ivy, swimmer's itch, heat rash, altitude sickness -- many of them are common ailments of summertime fun, but you don't have to let them ruin your fun. Here are a few tips to help you treat these "summer bummers" so that you can get back out and play before the sun goes down. And don't forget, if you're heading off on vacation, try to plan ahead and pack some of the more common remedies.

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Tags: altitude sickness, AltitudeSickness, bug bites, BugBites, heat rash, HeatRash, poison ivy, PoisonIvy, swimmer's itch, Swimmer'sItch

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Crabby McSlacker 7-16-2007 @ 2:34PM

Wow, there are more ways than I would have even guessed to get all itchy and miserable. Ocean itch? Swimmers eruption? Plus bugs and good ol' poison oak and poison ivy? My skin is crawling just thinking about it.

Still it's worth the risk of little itching--being outside in nature, hiking or camping or swimming, beats sitting in front of a computer all day long.

(But, um, if you are sitting in front of a computer and are really really bored, there's this grouchy little health blog that Crabby is always pestering people about...
http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/
Sorry! She'll go away now...)

Lillie 7-16-2007 @ 3:21PM

The past two weeks my feet have gotten EATEN ALIVE at outdoor concerts. I don't know why this works, but I POURED BEER (fullfat) on my feet and it INSTANTLY relieved the itch for the rest of the night. I guess the alcohol in it killed the itch???? My date thought it was a little odd, but at least I stopped clawing at my toes!!!

Pnkfldman 7-16-2007 @ 4:34PM

One of the best things to stop a bug bite itch ia ammonia, just dab some on & relief comes almost instantly, works on bee & hornet stings also

juzstoppinby 7-16-2007 @ 5:10PM

All I ever do,is dab a small amt. of Gold Bond on the itch and usually within the first minute,it's gone!!

nancy 7-16-2007 @ 7:29PM

Ammonia !!! anything with it in it like windex, etc as soon as you know you got bitten spray it on!!!! My Anatomy teacher in college told us that and YES it works great!!! I was waiting for an elevator at dusk and the bugs were biting me like crazy I went up and sprayed my legs and ...Nothing the next day!!! Not even a mark!!!

nobugitch 7-16-2007 @ 7:43PM

I learned as a kid early on, when you get mosquito bites take liquid dish soap rub on the bite and it stops itching and goes away. I use this method all the time in summer months, friends think it wont work till they are still itching and I am smiling.