Aromatherapy

[anonymous]

My little nephew has got CF and the other day I was babysitting him and I was burning some aromatherapy oils. Then I had a thought could some of these oils be bad for him can some tell me if it is ok to use oils around him or not??

Thanks

 

[Mantaray]

You must be careful with essential oils. Some of them can be harmful to children. I use EO to cure my daughter, but I do not diffuse EO when she is in the room. Apart from that, I think that burning EO is not the best way to use them, because heat destroys them. Diffusion would be better. And aromatherapy can be of great help in cf !

 

[ladybug]

What kinds of aromatherapy can be used to help with CF? I have never heard of that before, but it does make good sense. I notice when I've taken a bath of eucalyptus when I had a cold, it helped relieve congestion. Are there other scents you would recommend? I have an electric diffuser, but I just use an Aveda scent to make the room smell nice. It would be great if there was something I could burn that would also help with shortness of breath and other symptoms of CF.

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