OMG! I contracted mites! It has happened to me before, two other times. But this time I was blessed with the right answer as to what to do.
Most of the time when humans get mites, it is considered scabies and you contract them through human contact. There are two types of scabies. One has the little buggers concentrated in between the fingers and sometimes the toes. The other is more long term and leaves patches of gray crusty skin wherever the colonies concentrate. But when I’ve gotten mites before, neither of those two descriptions matched my condition, nor did I get them from human contact. I think I got them from birds.
Birds get mites really badly, so much so that certain swallows and finches have been know to line their nests with cigarette butts. (For more on animals self-medicating, please see National Wildlife Federation, Winter 2025, Master Medicators.) This allows the nicotine, which was one of the first pesticides ever used in the United States, to reduce the mite infestations in their nests.
In my research, I’ve come across horror stories of other people’s experience with mites that were similar to my own. These mites often were not diagnosed as scabies and seemed to behave more like the mites that birds get infested with. One man I read about was going on seven years of misery. One woman wrote about her eighteen month old baby girl screaming in agony for weeks after her husband brought them home from work. And it was she who posted the specific answer I was looking for, Hot Borax Baths.
The first time I encountered these little buggers was when I was in my late teens and was helping a friend take care of her parent’s farm. They had hundreds of chickens and ducks and had a coop with a low roof. I went in there to clean it out and my bun, on top of my head, brushed the chicken wire, overhead, several times. When I emerged from the pen, five or ten minutes later, I realized that I could feel the creepiest sensation of hundreds of invisible little beings moving down my neck and shoulders and onto my chest and back with little tiny nibbley bites.
With a sense of panic, I alerted my friend and ran to the shower, grabbing a bottle of bleach on the way. I stripped off my clothes in the shower and stuffed them into a plastic trash bag, to be thrown away. Then I very carefully poured straight bleach over my head, hair and whole body. I never would recommend that anyone do this. But, that is what I did and it worked. It happened so soon after infestation that they never got a chance to burrow deeply enough into my skin, and they all got fried. It took about a half an hour of running water to rinse all of the bleach and dead mites off.
The second time I got infested with mites was decades later, out on our front lawn, under the trees. I noticed a few little teeny tiny itchy spots, first on my legs, maybe three or four of them and didn’t think anything of it and went to bed. The next day, there were a few more. Soon after patches of twenty or fifty little bumps arose and I knew I was in some sort of trouble. This time those buggers had already set up house-keeping under my skin.
Over the weeks that followed, I started with aloe, progressed to herbal skin creams and essential oils, and wound up with prescription creams, all of which seemed to help for a day or two and then wound up much worse than before. In the end, my husband and I move out of our house and into a hotel so we could run ozonators in all of the rooms of our home and kill every living thing in there. We rented extra days and ozonated the hotel room after we were out, as well. Wouldn’t want to pass this on to anyone else.
Meanwhile, I took a blow dryer to my skin and oh-so-painfully burnt the little buggers and their babies in the top layers of my skin. This is another technique that worked, but again, like the bleach, I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone. Neither the hot blow dryer nor bleach are good for the skin and both can be seriously dangerous.
But this time after gathering some pine cones under a tree, by the next day, I knew what was cooking. I started right away with the prescription cream and again some improvement progressed rapidly into becoming much worse. I gave my chiropractor friend a call, saying I was considering a prednisone shot because I was in so much misery and expecting it to get only worse, when she reminded me that in our age group bone loss is a serious concern and cortisone poses a serious risk of osteoporosis and subsequent fractures and surgeries etc. She said to try Borax Baths for getting rid of mites.
In the midst of all of this, my digestion went off as well. My appetite dropped and I felt nauseous. So, I also called a Naturopath friend of mine. She brought by a homeopathic remedy called psorinum. I started on that and looked on-line for borax baths for mites.
Previously my on-line research for what to do for mites was woefully unhelpful. The natural remedies were fairly ineffectual and the medical ones weren’t ideal either. But when I added Borax Baths into the search for mite cures, I blessedly found one site with bunches of success stories. One week and 15 loads of laundry and four hot borax baths later, I was mite free. We sprayed the house, car and all of our furniture down with three tablespoons of borax, diluted in three cups of hot water, with three tablespoons of three percent hydrogen peroxide. We stripped our bedding and hot borax washed it with all of our clothes every day using one half cup of borax along with our usual laundry soap. We also put the ozonator in the car for twenty-four hours. And we froze our shoes for the same amount of time. After taking our baths as hot as we could stand them for thirty minutes using three cups of borax, with two cups of three percent hydrogen peroxide and one cup of epsom salts, (3,2,1,) we air dried instead of towel drying to let a little of the solution remain on our skin. And it worked.
Should you, or any one you know, ever be so unlucky as to contract mites, may these Twenty Mule Team Borax rescue remedies help you as well as they have helped me.
Josephine Laing
© 2025
As a Clairvoyant Healer, Spiritual Counselor and Intuition Instructor, I share many tips for leading a healthy and fulfilling life. Please be advised that I am not a doctor. Nor am I licensed in any healing modality. However, I have had years of experience in alternative and complementary health and healing. All healing programs, including standard western medical protocols in addition to natural therapies, can cause harm rather than the benefit that you may be searching for. After all some people can have a strong reaction to something as seemingly innocent as peanuts or strawberries. Therefore, anything that I may recommend in these blogs and in my videos could be dangerous for you to try. So, it is important that you Ask Your Doctor First before trying any natural healing protocol. However, most medical doctors have little experience regarding natural healing programs and herbal medicine. So please understand if your doctor is unfamiliar with these ideas.
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