Ear Infections

Ear infections are quite rare around our home. I'm not quite sure why but am very grateful that they are. Last night my three year old had a fever and was screaming holding onto his ear saying it hurt. I'm pretty sure it was an ear infection. This is what I did...

For the fever-put a drop of Peppermint directly onto the top of his forehead, you can always do the bottom of there feet too.


For his overall health-I put two drops of OnGuard and Frankincense onto the bottom of each of his feet.

For his ears-I put two drops of Melaleuca and two drops of Basil onto a Q-tip and swabbed his ears.

When I would do that he would stop crying and tell me he was feeling better but then within minutes he would be back screaming so I would repeat the process. We did this several times. If they are older put the oil onto a cotton ball and leave it in their ear, it feels heavenly.

For the pain in his ear-The Melaleuca and Basil kill the infection but sometimes don't get rid of all the pain so I put a few drops of fractionated coconut oil into my hand and put 2-3 drops of Clove into the solution. Then I rubbed all around his ears.

Honestly Clove is not my most favorite smell but man the stuff works wonders!! After I put the Clove on he went and laid down and SLEPT the WHOLE night!! The next morning he had no fever. I did another round of Melaleuca and Basil just to be safe and then have been running OnGuard all day in my diffuser.

The ear infection dream team!