It is very important to improve immunity, especially for children whose immune system is not yet mature, when the current situation of air quality cannot be changed quickly.
At this time, aromatherapy, and its core strength-essential oil, with its antibacterial, antiviral, anti-infective, respiratory purification and immune enhancement characteristics, can help our children enhance their ability to resist external invasion and reduce their chances of accumulating synthetic drugs and environmental pollution toxins.
Some essential oils commonly used by babies are lavender, Roman chamomile, orange, sweet orange, cardamom, marjoram, thyme, tea tree, salvia tamarense and so on.
Using aromatherapy to maintain children's physical and mental health is the best intention and the greatest protection we can give children.
How can we use essential oil to protect children's health and improve immunity? Here are some common methods.
1. Bathing with essential oil is the fastest and most effective way to receive essential oil. On the one hand, it helps psychological and emotional problems to pass through the nervous system by inhaling aroma, on the other hand, it is faster to absorb essential oil with water as the medium. But remember to emulsify and dilute pure essential oils with fatty substances such as base oil or milk before bathing.
2, insist on giving the baby a full body massage, daily maintenance of base oil can be, on the basis of daily maintenance, add essential oil in proportion every week for maintenance.
Infants and young children are fragile, and the concentration of essential oil must be within the absolutely safe range. Generally speaking, the body use concentration of 0- 12 months is 0.5% for infants, that is, 10ml base oil plus 1 drop of unilateral essential oil, and 1% for infants aged 0-5 years, that is, 10ml base oil plus 2-3 drops of unilateral essential oil. .
3. In daily life, use a single dose of 3-5 drops of essential oil to spread incense, mop the floor and wash clothes, protect family members from breathing healthy air and wear clean and disinfected clothes. If there is no air diffuser, it will be very simple. Just add 20 drops of unilateral essential oil to every 100 ml of water in the spray bottle and spray it all over the house.
4. In addition, you can drop a drop of essential oil on your clothes every day when your child goes out, such as sweet orange, lavender, eucalyptus, etc., which can protect your child from fragrance when he goes out to play all day, but it is best to change the types of essential oil frequently.
The improvement of the external environment depends on everyone's efforts, and the improvement of the internal environment also requires everyone to be responsible for themselves! Let's make good use of this gift from nature to lead us through the fog and protect everyone in our lives!
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