Dental pain was reduced by aromatherapy

Dental pain was reduced by aromatherapy
Dental pain was reduced by aromatherapy
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During aromatherapy, oils extracted from essential oil plants are used for healing, mostly by inhalation. In general, most essential oil plants have a healing effect, most of them can be used even from a young age, although of course their effect may vary from individual to individual. Essential oils are also recommended by many doctors as a complementary treatment, for example, I first encountered them when the doctor recommended rosehip oil instead of antibiotics for my ten-month-old child's ear infection. But essential oils are not only good for symptomatic treatment, so for example, they not only clean the airways, but are also absorbed through the lungs through inhalation, thus helping the discharge of phlegm, and essential oils with antibacterial and antiviral effects play a significant role in suppressing the disease. Little known, but there are also essential oils that are used orally.

Many mothers-to-be add a few drops of fennel oil to their tea, which is known for its milk-enhancing effect, as well as passing through breast milk to the child and relieving abdominal cramps. However, before using any aromatic oil internally, talk to your doctor! The essential oil extracted from most aromatic plants is extremely rich and may contain not just one, but even hundreds of compounds.

Another essential oil that I use from a very young age is eucalyptus oil. There is no nasal suction that can be compared to a few drops of eucalyptus. I also put a few drops in the bath water or in the room before going to bed, it cleans the airways very well. (However, it is not recommended to use essential oils before the age of five by dropping them directly on a tissue and inhaling them. In addition, there are children who are excited by strong smells, you have to experience this!) When taking baths, make sure that the essential oil is dissolved beforehand, otherwise it will only the drops float on the surface of the water, and direct contact with the body is not recommended, especially for small children.(With the exception of lavender oil, it is not recommended to apply anything directly to the skin.) Essential oils dissolve well, for example, in milk or in bubble baths, so you can add them to the water. For small children, vaporization (5-6 drops of oil in the vaporizer) or bath water application is recommended, massage is always better left to a professional. But if we attended, for example, a baby massage course, we can also use essential oils, such as anise or fennel oil for abdominal cramps. In this case, add a few drops of essential oil to a base oil, such as olive, almond, or avocado oil.

As an additional treatment, essential oils can help children recover a lot, especially in winter, with colds. Éva Komáromi, who has been dealing with essential oils for decades, recommends the following composition to alleviate winter illnesses and colds: 2-4 drops of eucalyptus, 1-2 drops of anise, lemon, cinnamon, 2-4 drops of peppermint (or any mint), 4-6 drops orange or tangerine. These are dropped onto a handkerchief and placed in the child's bedroom (a scented candle is quite dangerous in such places) using so-called dry evaporation. He also recommends dissolving 1 drop of cinnamon, 1 drop of mint and 1 drop of thyme oil in 2 dl of water and gargling with it. Add a few drops of almond or lemongrass oil to the bath water against insomnia and poor sleep. (For children who do not sleep well, lemongrass tea can also help).

Using essential oils is not yet recommended for very small babies, as their strong smell can disturb the baby, for whom the mother's smell is also very important at first. Later, after a few months, we can start using rose oil with a more restrained scent, or orange, mandarin, vanilla, Roman chamomile or sandalwood oil for massaging or steaming. In the book Aromatherapy Manual, a mixture of 10 drops of lavender, 4 drops of orange blossom and 2 drops of Roman chamomile is recommended for the baby's first aromatherapy (dissolve this in 120 ml of base oil, for example almond) and start caressing and lightly massaging the baby, who is sensitive to the mentioned oils, as well as his mother's touch calms him down and makes him feel safe.

The aromatherapy treatment can also be very effective for teething, you have to rub the baby's face on the outside, close to the pain. Especially in the case of chewing teeth, it can be a big help. In general, a mixture of Roman chamomile, blue chamomile, cloves, wild lavender, evening primrose, and St. John's wort macerate can be effective, but it is better to entrust the mixing of these oils to aromatherapists, or to buy them mixed together. The price of such an oil is quite steep, but it's still cheaper than buying all the ingredients, and we don't even know the correct proportions. We can buy such mixtures, for example, on the site illoolajok.hu, where you can find a lot of useful oil mixtures that can be used before, during and after childbirth.

An important thing to keep in mind regarding essential oils is that they cannot be used together with homeopathic treatments, as they reduce or cancel the effect of homeopathic preparations. For those who want to deal more deeply with the healing effects of essential oils, we recommend the already mentioned handbook, as well as the very detailed new book, My Proven Aroma Blends, by Ingeborg Stadelmann, the author of The Midwife Answers.

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