Infants and Toddlers

Many essential oils can be dangerous for infants and young children when they inhale it in undiluted form, swallow or get applied to the skin. Essential oils should not be used for children in concentrated form for use! A few drops of oil into the mouth or nose can pull spasms of the larynx to be - to the point of respiratory arrest. Other complaints include, for example abdominal pain, skin irritation, nausea or seizures. Essential oils on the edge of a bathtub. Essential oils should be used cautiously.
When children suffer from the use of essential oils from complaints such as cramps, difficulty breathing or dizziness, you should immediately alert the emergency physician.
Essential oils should be used in diluted form in infants and young children only with great caution.
In particular with camphor and menthol oils you should avoid in infants. Also with Eucalyptus caution. Thus, when the offspring breathing difficulties occur, leading to suffocation when they breathe in those oils. Essential oils such as menthol can cause irritation to the respiratory tract, so that the mucus production is stimulated. This narrow, cramped passages and the addition of a cold anyway challenged airways.
Fragrance oils and other products with essential oils, parents need to keep children safe for the youngsters do not accidentally ingest oil. Also, cold pools, sports albums or other products that contain essential oils may be used in babies and young children with extreme care.
Make sure to use only products that are specifically suitable for infants and young children, and use the product only as intended. Apply the products not in the face of young child. Seek advice when in doubt of your pharmacist or doctor!
If a child has accidentally swallowed a means with essential oils, give him plenty to drink, for example, tea, and tell precaution a poison control center.