For Your Family’s Health: How to Fight the Flu

What do parents worry about the most during the school year? Keeping their children healthy and safe. This year, with more concern about H-1-N-1 and other strains of the flu, it’s especially important to do all you can to safeguard your child’s health so that the family can enjoy a healthy, happy year.

With a few essential oils on hand and in the home, you can help everyone in your family fight the flu and other illnesses that may be spreading through the schools and neighborhoods.

Hand Hygiene

1. Wash hands frequently with On Guard Foaming Hand Wash. A recent article in the New York Times touts the benefits of washing with sanitizing solutions made with Cinnamon essential oil, which is one of the essential oils in On Guard Foaming Hand Wash. Researchers are recommending using hand sanitizers made with Cinnamon essential oil because it is highly effective against killing bacteria and infections.

Purify the Air

2. Diffuse essential oils in your home. Studies have shown that diffusing essential oils is highly effective with regard to killing airborne bacteria and viruses. Improving the air quality in your home is an important step in keeping your family healthy. Consider asking your child’s teacher to allow a diffuser in the classroom. With students sneezing and coughing throughout the day, this natural air purifier would go a long way in keeping airborne germs at bay. A few essential oils that top the list for enhancing immunity and killing airborne bacteria are On Guard, Purify, Lavender, and Melaleuca.