How did Nat overcome his fever with Peppermint

Here’s my experience with oiling for a sick kid with high fever. It was a tough decision whether to feed him medicine or to oil him. But I’m glad I didn’t give up oiling and if necessary, medication is still unavoidable. But these natural remedies have helped him to cut down these medication. You can’t expect miracles or fast reliefs from oiling, rather a natural way for the body to recover on its own.

Here’s my story.

Just the night before, Nat was cheerful and energetic before he went to sleep. But that same night he started to run a fever. His temperature was 38°C+ (I cant remember exactly cos it was late and dark) I quickly took my peppermint essential oil with diluted it with V6-Veg oil. I applied onto his chest and back. I took Thieves and put 1 drop on his soles and rub his feet together. He fell back to sleep with the massage. I remembered it was 1am in the morning. I can’t remember what time it was when he woke up again, he was feel very uncomfortable. I repeated the same thing again. Ask him to go back to sleep and I slept beside him on the floor ( i did it knowing the floor is too uncomfortable for me and I would wake up later). I remembered waking up 4am+ and then 5-6am again and did the same routine and checked on his temperature.

 

Luckily it was my day off, so I could stay at home to oil Nat. I repeated the same procedure again. This time I included lavender too, because he was feeling lethargic and sleepy that he refused all food even his milk. Thankfully, he still takes water. I heard that Lavender can also help with fever as well and also to help him sleep better. I also alternate Thieves now with Lemon on his soles.

He kept sleeping and I kept oiling every hourly, and sometimes when I oil him, he wakes up and looks at me, tears roll out of his eyes. He was feeling horrible. Every time he wakes up, I will get him to drink some water. Water is very important to help him detox while the oils work on him. When he is awake he tears and will mumble “mummy, mummy” and that’s all he could say. I kept oiling but the fever was not going down quick enough and he was feeling horrible.

I couldn’t take it anymore, he looks at me, tears roll out and unable to describe the pain he is in.  I gave up, I fed him paracetamol. Just one doze, an hour later, his fever still didn’t go down, I continue to oil him and his fever went down after 2 hours, he felt better, he had the energy to walk and some appetite to eat just a little. He gargled down one full cup of ribena. His fever didn’t rise back that much after that, so I continue to oil him.

I did some research and came across this blog post. http://gianelloni.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/fevers-are-not-to-fear/

Fever reducers actually help to delay the recovering. Remember the doctor telling you that fever would usually last 3 days? Without fever reducers, let the body fight on its own and usually would come down within 12 hours. This post encouraged me and told me to keep oiling.

 

Finally day 2, morning I had to go back to work. I left him with my mil place. Luckily she didn’t objected against oiling and she continued to help him oil. In the noon, she told me that he was well and didn’t had fever.  Great news! After his fever was fully recovered, he started to having runny nose… oh dear.. now its RC’s turn to step in!

 

The key to Oiling, is Persistent and Consistent!!

 

My Collection of Essential Oils (Part 3) – Lavender

Lavender is the most versatile oil, it is even suggested to be the “swiss army knife” of essential oils. There is just so many things it can do and it is also a gentle oils that allows you to use directly even on cuts or open wound. It has also become my son’s favourite number one oil.

I (or even many of us) would always relate lavender to “de-stress”, “relaxation”. When I first started using aromatheraphy/oil burners, I never choose lavender because I didn’t like the fragrance and I do not think I need to de-stress. Haha. But now, I am loving Lavender as much as my son loves it.

I always love to send people this image that has a good illustration of the uses of lavender oil.

So how did I use/benefited from Lavender Oil?

1) Menstrual Cramp

I remembered the first few days after my oils arrived, I was feeling some cramps due to my period one night. I went to google to find out if any of my oil collection would help, and lavender was in the list! I applied it to my tummy and I felt better and I could sleep through the night without any cramps. As a side note: I am not a person who gets menstrual cramps often.

2) Mosquite Bites

My son, he gets mosquito bites and it would swell and itch that he will scratch and scratch till they leave a scar. Even if he doesn’t scratch them, when the bite heals, it leaves a black patch on the skin and take a long time to lighten. So I applied Purification and Lavender (using the layering method). Purification helps with the itch, I can see that after application, my boy stops scratching and he will continue with his play. Then I would layer with lavender, to help soothe his skin and help with recovering of the skin tissues so that there won’t be any dark skin or scars left over from the bites. Now, everytime he gets itchy skin, he will come to me and say “Mummy! Very itchy, help me to put oil” and he would say “More, More!!”)

3) Sleep and Massage

At night, when its time for bed, I let my boy choose the oils that he would like to diffuse that night and he would usually choose Lavender! He calls it the “Purple Oil”. While I drop the Lavender Oil into the diffuser, he would take the cap and smell it.  When I have the time, I would also help him to do a boy massage. I would pre-mix Lavender with some V6 Vegetable Oil into an empty reused Lavender bottle and help him massage his body and his legs.

4) Sunburn Skin

Just last weekend, my parents took my son to play at the Water Themepark, he came back all red like lobster due to the son. I was so worried that his skin will start to peel off the next day. I immediately use my lavender + V6 to help massage on the sunburn areas, including his cheeks. Then I also applied aloe vera for him as well. Luckily, he didn’t peel over the next feel days nor complain of any sun burn pain.

5) Aching Muscles

Lavender not only helps with his sunburn, I also helped to massage on his aching legs to prevent him from having muscle aches due to hours of water play.

We went overseas for a short trip to Korea recently. Nat was behaving very well surprisingly during the trip and he walked many many high flight of steps too. I was surprised he walked that much. We adults are having sore muscles but he was fine. I was afraid that this would happened so I brought Lavender and my V6 carrier oil with me for this trip. I helped to massage the oils on his legs before he sleeps every night. He had no complains of any muscle pain. But I ran out of Lavender by the last night, and I couldn’t help him massage. The next day, he actually looked more tired and wanted us to carry him more than the first 3 days. I wonder, if it was Lavender that helped him the last 3 days or he really is out of energy by the 4th day? Hmm..  I believe Lavender did help him with his aching muscles!

6) Laundry

I hear that Lavender can also be used in the laundry. I only tried once, I dropped a few drops of lavender into a damp piece of clothing that I wanted to wash. But then I forgot to check the results after that. Haha, I think the detergent and the softener has over-powered the smell of Lavender. But I would probably try again the next time.

7) Rashes 

Bet you didnt know that Young Living Essential Oils can also be used on animals too!! My mil has a pet maltese, he was getting old and started having skin disorders. He has itchy rashes and many times he has to wear his cone to prevent him from scratching. After knowing that these oils can help, she immediately asked me to get her a bottle of Lavender. She told me that after a few applications, the rashes have all cleared up. Amazing right!

Other Uses (I hear/read but not tried on myself)

Lavender is very well know to treat allergies too. Young Living’s Lavender is safe for ingestion and you can see the effects faster. I saw a video taken by a mummy who explains how she uses Lavender for her son’s allergies. Drop 2-3 drops of Lavender into honey or Blue Agave and take, she also applied some lavender neat under her son’s eyes for his water eyes.

Here’s the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEkWuBQ3qw

I read also a testimonial where a mummy was helping her infant cut her nails and accidentally snipped onto her skin. She immediately poured/rained lavender over her crying infant’s fingers and the baby stopped crying after that! Its just so cool.

Here is another testimonial about cuts on an infant. http://onedropsingapore.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/lavender-lesson-2/