Ear infection

Last Wednesday, my 4 year old started to get sick.  He kept telling me that his left ear hurt but I didn't think much of it because I kept playing and acting normal.  By evening, he was not doing well.  He was crying and telling me that his ear hurt pretty frequently. 

I knew that melaleuca was an oil that is great for ear infections so I began rubbing it all around his ear.  Every 30 minutes or so, I would reapply it.  We did this all evening, even putting it on a cotton ball, putting it gently inside his ear, and then putting a piece of tape over it. 

He went to bed and was pretty restless.  He kept waking up and crying, and I kept reapplying the melaleuca.  We kept trying to decide if we needed to do anything else or just wait to see if he improved.  The problem was that we were supposed to be leaving for a vacation in the morning!  We decided to wait and see what happened.

The last time he woke up was at 1:30.  I put more melaleuca on him, fully expecting to be up again in an hour or two but he slept all night after that, waking up at his usual time.  I was so grateful!!!

I asked him how his ear felt and he said it felt good, and that it just hurt a little bit now.  We were able to finish packing and head out of town.

I told my husband as we drove away how glad I was that we have the oils in our home.  If we didn't, we would have been spending time at the pediatrician's office that morning (or perhaps even going in to the ER in the middle of the night) and then going to the pharmacy to get an antibiotic that would have damaged his gut flora.  I still can't believe that it worked so well and so fast!  We were able to reduce his pain within a couple of hours and help his body to heal.  All without any doctors' or prescriptions and without having to force any medicine into him.  Amazing!!

The time to prepare for those middle of the night emergencies is not when your child gets an ear infection the night before your vacation...it is well before that.  Having the oils in your home, you are prepared for the times when you need them most!

Update: My son happened to have his 4 year well check appointment the following Monday - 5 days after his ear infection.  I told her about what happened and what we used for him.  She said it looked like there was a little bit of fluid in his ear but that it looked like it was healing just fine! 
   

Cold and flu season

Oh, cold and flu season...here we go again!  This year, however, I am armed with essential oils to help keep my family healthy.  My 3 year old son, started to come down with a cold/flu yesterday morning.  He sounded stuffy when he woke up and wasn't acting as rambunctious as he usually does.  By mid afternoon, he was definitely sick!  I put a few oils on him.  He laid down on the couch at 4:00 and slept for an hour (this is highly unusual for him).  When he woke up, he sounded so hoarse and kept crying and pointing to his throat.  He kept saying that his mouth hurts.  It was heartbreaking!  I began to put essential oils on him and trying to get him to drink something but he refused.  I tried to give him some Tylenol to help with the pain but he would not take it!  In the past I would have felt completely helpless and would have been left to praying for him, holding him and crying with him.

This time, however, I knew there was more that I could do to help him.  My husband and a friend gave him a priesthood blessing.  Shortly afterward, he started to get very sleepy so I took off his shoes and rubbed some OnGuard, Melaluca, and Oregano oil on the bottoms of his feet and then we put him to bed for the night.  All evening, his fever had been bouncing between 102 and 103.5.  He slept until 12:30 am when he woke up crying.  I rubbed those three oils on the bottom of his feet again and put him back to bed.  He slept all night and in the morning, his fever was totally gone!  This morning he has been acting like his normal self again.  He ate a great breakfast and drank a lot of fluids.  I've continued putting those three oils on him all day.  He is doing great!!

I love the fact that even though he REFUSED to take medicine, I could still do something to help him.  It is so much easier to rub some oils on his feet than it is to try to coerce him to take medicine (that only treats the symptoms anyway).  The oils actually help his body to kill whatever virus is causing him to be sick in the first place.  Amazing!  I am a believer!!!!!