Thieves and my Throat Infection

Thieves have saved me again. Just last month, I suddenly came down with a very dry throat. This is the usual kind of throat infection that I get quite often. It starts to hurt a little when you talk. Before I started using oils, this is usually how it would go.

Take lots of lozenges. I would usually buy Strepsils and take them every 2-3 hours. Even though the recommendation is like 4hours? I will take the usual “Pi Pa Gao” to help soothe the throat. Usually, it will take about 2 days and then the vocal cords will start to hurt real badly and I will lose my voice. I am a teacher by the way, no voice = can’t teach.

Unable to talk and I would have no other choice to visit the doctors to get a MC. After queuing at 2-3 hours at the clinic, the doctor would give the usual medication. Lozenges and maybe cough medicine if I was coughing. Then I would take the lozenges, it helps to numb the pain but would probably take 2-3 days to recover so that I can start talking again so that I can return to work. And usually by then 4^th day, the lozenges will probably have finished. So then I will just continue to take my own Strepsils and Pi Pa Gao again till it fully recovers. And a visit to the doctors like this would usually cost me $80.

This time, the infection came really quite sudden; it could be due to standing 9-10 hours for 2 days straight for an event over the weekend.  Right after the event ended, I felt the throat calling but I was so tired I concussed till the next morning, the throat still feels uneasy when I woke up. So I took 1 drop of Thieves and 2-3 drops of lemon in warm water and drank it. I did it 2-3 times a day. Morning, noon and night. So this is how my recovery went.

Day 1	Thieves and lemon in water 3 times a day.
Day 2	Told my students to do their own work so I can reduce talking
Day 3	Felt better and I could teach again.
Day 4	I couldn’t resist the temptation and Japanese Curry Katsu (Deep Fried Pork)
Day 5	The fried food made my throat a little worst again.
Day 7	My throat feels better and had MacDonald meal with French Fries!! By then, my throat felt so much better already, like almost recovered. Just that when it comes to the night time, it still feels a little dry. But there wasn’t any more pain.
Day 8-10	I continue drinking thieves and lemon 2 times a day just to make sure the dry throat doesn’t come back. . By the end of 2 weeks, I can say I was totally well!!

It is just so amazing!! It is a slow recovery, but I was able to talk and teach and still eat as usual.

So let’s do our Math Here.

Normal Scenario	Using Young Living Oil
Doctors Bill $80+ MC 1-2 days	Thieves EO 15ml $54 1 drop cost $0.216 I took 3 drops for 14 days. $9.072	Lemon EO 15ml $18 1 drop cost $0.072 1 took 9 drops for 14 days. $9.072
Total Bill $80++	Total $18.144!!! SAVED $62!!!!

 

 

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!!