For anyone reading this blog, I am sorry I've been unable to post as often as I intended. A family crisis has been keeping me too busy and too tired to even think. I will continue the lavender info as soon as I possibly can.
Blessings, Gilly
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Lavender Treatment For Bee & Wasp Stings
Years ago my son stepped on a ground nest of bees while mowing the lawn, something we had never even heard of, so we were completely unprepared to deal with this. The angry bees attacked my son and repeatedly stung him, even managing to get under his shirt & pant legs. Since he had numerous stings all over there was quite a bit of pain and he was also feeling shocked and nervous. None of the things we tried seemed to help so eventually we took him to the emergency room at our nearest hospital.
That was not one of the best experiences we ever had! First there was a fairly long drive to the hospital, then we had to wait for quite a while for someone to see us. Not fun for someone who was in pain, and , by then, in a state of panic. After all this all they only spent a few minutes with him and gave him a pill to calm him down and help him sleep.
HOW I WISH I HAD KNOWN ABOUT LAVENDER THEN. Putting some Lavender Essential Oil directly on the stings would have not only calmed him down quickly, but soothed the pain away while actually healing the stings. AND there would not have been the time wasted driving to a hospital or waiting for someone to treat him. Although in my opinion there wasn't much treatment involved. There was however quite a large bill. It would have been so much cheaper to have bought a bottle of the essential oil if only I had known.
Now, of course, I always keep a bottle of it in the house for emergencies, and every so often I, or someone in my family has one of those emergencies ( don't we all?) and am grateful that I have my helpful little bottle of Lavender oil. My next post will be about an emergency where I DID have the Lavender oil and how it helped.
Blessings, Gilly
That was not one of the best experiences we ever had! First there was a fairly long drive to the hospital, then we had to wait for quite a while for someone to see us. Not fun for someone who was in pain, and , by then, in a state of panic. After all this all they only spent a few minutes with him and gave him a pill to calm him down and help him sleep.
HOW I WISH I HAD KNOWN ABOUT LAVENDER THEN. Putting some Lavender Essential Oil directly on the stings would have not only calmed him down quickly, but soothed the pain away while actually healing the stings. AND there would not have been the time wasted driving to a hospital or waiting for someone to treat him. Although in my opinion there wasn't much treatment involved. There was however quite a large bill. It would have been so much cheaper to have bought a bottle of the essential oil if only I had known.
Now, of course, I always keep a bottle of it in the house for emergencies, and every so often I, or someone in my family has one of those emergencies ( don't we all?) and am grateful that I have my helpful little bottle of Lavender oil. My next post will be about an emergency where I DID have the Lavender oil and how it helped.
Blessings, Gilly
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