As an educator, we are notorious for pushing through sickness and continuing to teach. Why? Because it is 50x harder to prepare for a sub than to go ahead and teach while sick.
The Thursday before our school's winter break, I began to feel…off. Do you know that feeling? It's that a place where you do not feel normal yet you do not feel sick. I was most definitely in that place that Thursday.
Uh oh. I did NOT want to be sick. We were almost to winter break! I had gone 2 weeks of avoiding the flu that was spreading through my school by using SN Shield blend. I did not want to get a sub now. As soon as I got home, I took a detox bath (45 minutes) with the following ingredients:
- Epsom salts
- baking soda
- SN Shield Blend
- SN Frankincense
- SN Melaleuca
- SN Lemon
- SN Oregano
I cannot tell you how much of each I used. 5-10 drops? I do know that I am very stingy on Frankincense because it is so expensive to replace. That night, after my bath, I started to feel myself again. Take that, sickness!!
This feeling lasted until around noon the next day. The off feeling began again despite continuously using my oils. I went home (it was a half day), took a nap, and then woke up to a VERY different body. I ached. I felt cold. Oh gosh. I have the flu.
When my husband got home, he took me to the clinic care where they confirmed that yes, indeed, I did have the flu. My husband however, used Shield like crazy and did not catch the flu from me.
In conclusion, the essential oils did a really good job of combating the flu for almost two weeks. Not too shabby given I was surrounded by sick students every single day during that time frame. Sadly, my body did eventually succumb to the flu.
However, my husband was only exposed to my flu for a few days, and he never did get sick while using the oils. This tells me that there is a limit to how well the oils will work, but it is still a fairly good limit.
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Sincerely,
Mrs. James
