This year, the winter seems not wanted to leave and make room for the first warm spring: snow and wind have invaded a few days ago most of the Italian regions. And between temperature changes and drafts, you are not yet safe from the influences and cooling.
These days I've often heard mothers forced to their homes due to heavy coughing their children. Unfortunately, the cough is a symptom rather common in children and can occur in various ways and at different times of the day.
So let's see how we can help our small (but also the rest of the family) with simple and healthy tips.
First you need to humidify the air in the house but also the child's room (or where is his habit to sleep) so as not to dry the breathing air that could further irritate the respiratory mucosa. Simply place the radiators of small container full of water and, if the child has already reached the age of 2 years, you can add a few drops of essential oil in thyme, eucalyptus and mint able to give a touch of balsamic environment. But avoid using essential oils at night and in the bedrooms.
In addition to air humidification of the house, it is useful to do at a small fumigations using a basin of hot water and a few drops of essential oil of thyme (Thymus vulgaris) and let him take a deep breath smelling those fumes. Place a towel over his head would be even more useful, but may be extremely challenging for the kids! You can make the smoke even more attractive by adding lavender oil or lemon.
The massage can be helpful: caress the little tiny body of our child from pesky relieve the cough and help him to calm down at his side, remembering that there are mothers and fathers who take care of him so affectionate and loving. Also at the touch of the hands of parents effects benefits in the child's central nervous system and is a great way to strengthen the emotional bond with their children.
Massage can be done with balsamic products that we all can easily make at home with our own hands, without being forced to spend a lot of money in pharmacies! Just a simple sweet almond oil (jojoba oil or even better, but it is more expensive) to which you add a few drops of essential oil of thyme, thanks to its antiseptic, tonic and parasites, it is recommended in all diseases of the respiratory tract as it is a strong bactericide. The massage should be done on the chest and back high, and on the throat area.
For children (under one year of age) is not advisable to exceed the use of essential oils (although natural) because it is a pure concentrate of plants and are too intrusive and irritating. Instead of massaging the body of the small, limit ourselves to stroke the soles of the feet, always with a drop of almond oil and essential oil of thyme.
Massaging the feet may have no meaning and no logical connection with a cough, but it is not so! Foot reflexology, in fact, teaches us that all organs and all systems of our body are "reflections" on the soles of our feet with a specific position by recreating on this rather limited area of \u200b\u200bthe body a precise map of the whole body. Without going into details of this fascinating practice, we pamper little feet by bringing attention to the area between the big and melluce (the second toe) and across the top of the foot.
Another simple way to clear the lungs and respiratory system is to put a few drops of essential oil of thyme on a piece of cloth and ... inhale at will!
Essential oils that are used must be absolutely excellent and so natural, preferably organic, no preservatives, dyes and synthetic substances. These oils, being derived with a particular process directly from the plant will have a certain price (but still accessible): distrust and then by the "fake" oils (which are mostly synthetic and created in the laboratory) that fill the shelves of supermarkets and department stores and they cost a few euro .
remember that essential oils enter our body (and that of our children) that is inhaled through the skin ... Then breathe healthy and beneficial for our health!
On the essential oil of thyme remember that it must never be used undiluted directly on skin, always dilute with a vegetable oil. There can also be used in case of epileptic tendencies of iperfunzionalità thyroid and pregnancy.
Federica Scropetta
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