To Gary Christensen, My mother always told me that as a child, 65 years ago, my life was saved when I had "double pneumonia" by inhaling pungent hot vapors. I vividly remember the experience. As soon as I inhaled those pungent fumes my breathing would come easier. They would put a towel over my head and the crock of hot liquid to form a tent. I would raise "the tent flap" from time to time to bring in some more oxygen.
As an adult I had always assumed that it was the water vapor that I inhaled that did the trick. But lack of success with mere water vaporizers with my own son in later life has convinced me lately that it was not the water vapor but the drops of a pungent oil added to the surface of the very hot water that did the curing. I have only recently read of the anitibiotic powers of essential oils and "aromatherapy." Check out the inhaling of "essential oils" on the Internet. You could start your search at brunnerbiz.com. I believe Karen Brunner, a nutritional consultant, has had successful experience with essential oils with her own children. She answers her email promptly. Apparently there are quality differences when it comes to finding effective essentail oils in the USA. My infant son had symptoms such as you describe with your son. But his bronchial tubes would collapse, turning his face blue. It was explained to us by our physician that it was an allergic reaction to bacteria from a sinus infection and the post nasal drip that occurred when he was in a prone position. We learned that immediate antibiotics was required in his case and an injection of epinefrine to try to avoid brain damage while the antibiotic was starting to work. He outgrew this kind of severe crisis by the time he was eight years old. But he needed special education as a learning challenged student. Where breathing is impaired to the point that a child is bluish colored in the face, calls for very urgent action. We learned to take our son to an ER immediately. Since my wife was a nurse our doctor wisely decided to have us keep the ABx and the epinefrine at home for more rapid administration. Minutes count. Today I would have the essential oils in the house for dealing with such a crisis. CS, in my opinion, is not fast acting enough for this kind of crisis. Our son, now 35, is still prone to respiratory infections. He uses CS as a preventative of respiratory infection, rather than a cure once he is infected. I wish that I had known about the inhaling of essential oils back then when my son was an infant, but the knowledge of my mother that she brought with her from Venezuela in 1905 was lost for me when she died. God bless you and your family, -- Carlos LeClair ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary & Gary Christensen To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 1:00 AM Subject: CS performance OK everyone I'm looking for some wisdom and knowledge in the CS field. I am now generating my own CS with a high voltage transformer, I am very confident that my CS is good. The problem I'm having is that I don't feel that I am getting the results from using the CS that I should be getting. For example; I have a sixteen month old son, an he had a very bad dry cough at night and in the daytime seemed OK. We started using a warm air vaporizer overnight, it helped him from having such a dry cough but he was still very congested. I was giving him CS, and it seemed to help a little, but it just wasn't getting him better. We think he might have had ear infection(s) so I was dropping CS in his ears. Finally we gave up and took him to the doctor, his ears were clear of any infections, but he said that he had an infection in his nose (or sinus) and prescribed an antibiotic. I hate to admit it but he seems to be doing much better after a day on the antibiotics. Can anyone tell me why the CS did not work? (Or did not work good enough) I would appreciate any suggestions or comments Tanks,trying to have faith, Gary performance
