Perhaps it is difficult to imagine a more useful product than sea buckthorn oil. It contains a huge amount of vitamins and has many beneficial effects. For adults, the range of use of such a substance is very wide. But parents often have doubts about children's use of sea buckthorn. In this article, we will try to figure out together when and how to give children sea buckthorn oil and what ailments can be treated with it.
Beneficial features
Their sea buckthorn oil is obtained either by cold pressing, or by extraction, when the raw material is heated to a certain temperature using vegetable oil, a well-known sea buckthorn product is obtained with a specific smell and an easily recognizable delicate orange color. Amazing healing properties are due to the huge amount of nutrients:
- Carotenoids;
- Sterols;
- Tocopherols;
- Vitamins E, A, K and others, except for vitamins of group B, which are absent due to the lack of fiber in the berries of the plant;
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids;
- Flavonoids.
And now a video release about the beneficial properties and method of using sea buckthorn oil.
The medicine is extracted from various raw materials - from sea buckthorn berries and from its seeds. In the first case, a substance rich in carotenoids is obtained, which is why it is colored in a rich orange color. In the second case, the oil is transparent, colorless. It is rich in fatty acids. Most often, these two oils are mixed together, such a sea buckthorn duo provides maximum benefits for the human body.
In terms of the amount of valuable substances, sea buckthorn is a real record holder, it has left far behind most vegetables, fruits and berries.
Application for treatment
For a long time, sea buckthorn has been used in the treatment of a wide variety of conditions. It helps to quickly and effectively solve many health problems:
- Promotes the elimination of toxins.
- Perfectly heals wounds, abrasions, burns, damage to mucous membranes.
- Has a pronounced anti-inflammatory, regenerating effect.
- Helps with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Strengthens the body's immune defenses.
- Accelerates hair growth.
- Reduces the amount of cholesterol and blood sugar.
- It is used as an excellent cosmetic product for skin problems.
- Helps to cope with diseases of the respiratory and hearing organs.
Children can be given sea buckthorn oil, provided that the baby does not have an allergic reaction to this product. It is used in a variety of ways:
- Outwardly... With atopic dermatitis, with prickly heat and diaper rash in infants, with skin irritation caused by allergies, chemical burns, boiling water burns, abrasions, calluses, etc.
- Nasally and topically... When stomatitis with sea buckthorn oil, the child is treated with wounds and sores in the mouth. In case of a cold, this product is instilled into the nose to avoid drying out of the mucous membrane. With angina, the larynx is lubricated with a useful substance, the oil disinfects, softens and rather quickly relieves pain. With adenoids, the tonsils are subject to treatment. When coughing, especially when dry, unproductive, sea buckthorn oil helps to alleviate the child's condition and stimulates the discharge of sputum.
- Inside... Sea buckthorn oil can and should be drunk for stomach diseases and constipation. It is often given to weak and regularly ill children to increase and strengthen the immune system.
- Candles... Rectal suppositories with sea buckthorn oil are used for bowel diseases, as well as as part of complex therapy for many ailments as a natural and very effective pain reliever.
Where to buy and how to do it?
To prepare an oily substance from sea buckthorn on your own is not as easy as it seems. But in any pharmacy of any city in all regions of the country there is a ready-to-use product on sale, packaged in bottles. It is incorporated into many baby care products, including ointments and creams, soaps, and bath foams. In addition, rectal suppositories are available and must be used with great care and only with the permission of the pediatrician.
Despite the numerous medicinal properties, a specialist may find contraindications to the use of sea buckthorn in your child, and therefore you should not trust the reviews of other parents on the Internet, you need to trust your doctor.
For the benefits of sea buckthorn for mom and baby, see the next video.
How to use?
- From diaper rash babies up to a year lubricate damaged skin several times a day. You can use a special cream with sea buckthorn oil "Heal-Ka!"
- For burns and abrasions a child of any age needs to moisten wipes with the product and gently put it on a sore skin area for several minutes. It is necessary to repeat such lotions at least 6-7 times a day.
- With a stuffy nose you can drip sea buckthorn oil only if the child is already one year old. You should first make sure that there is no allergy. The usual dosage is 1-2 drops in each nostril no more than 3 times a day. The maximum course of treatment is no more than 10 days.
- For the throat, the agent is used as an antiseptic and anesthetic. A child older than a year with angina can lubricate the throat with sea buckthorn oil up to 5 times a day until the painful sensations when swallowing completely disappear.
- For the treatment of bronchitis, bronchotracheitis, whooping cough, in the complex treatment of pneumonia it is allowed to use sea buckthorn oil in inhalation. With a strong cough, you can use drugs based on a medicinal product inside. Specific dosages are prescribed by the doctor, taking into account the age and the exact diagnosis of the little patient.
- With stomatitis, gingivitis sea buckthorn oil gently treat wounds and inflamed gums with a cotton swab. It is recommended to do this procedure several times a day. After treatment, do not let your child eat or drink for half an hour. The oil promotes rapid healing of sores and wounds in the mouth.
- With synechia (conditions in which organs and tissues fuse together) sea buckthorn oil is applied externally, gently lubricating the fused areas. According to numerous reviews of parents, this is very effective, especially with synechiae in girls, when the labia are fused.
- With adenoids inflamed overgrown tonsils are lubricated 3-4 times a day, this relieves pain and partially relieves swelling. Also, doctors recommend using sea buckthorn oil for some time after the operation to remove the palatine tonsil.
With gastritis, stomach ulcer children are given half a teaspoon of sea buckthorn oil 15 minutes before meals 3-4 times a day.
For bacterial bowel disease prescribe baby candles with sea buckthorn dosage and according to the scheme specified in the instructions for use.
With otitis media sea buckthorn oil is slightly warmed up and 2-3 drops are instilled into the ears, after which the ear canal is closed with a dry cotton swab for half an hour. The course of treatment is 5-6 days.
To strengthen the immune system optimal are special preparations based on vitamins and minerals, into which pharmacists have added sea buckthorn oil.
Age restrictions
In general, sea buckthorn oil can be used to treat children from birth. However, this applies mainly to external use only. Here, no one binds parents' hands, if there is a desire to use sea buckthorn to treat the baby's skin problems - good luck!
Ingestion of oil is not recommended for children under 10-12 years of age. The abundance of carotenoids can cause jaundice or severe allergies.
Rectal suppositories with sea buckthorn are usually not advised by doctors to put children who are under 2 years old.
Vitamin complexes, which include this product "VitaMishki", "Pomogusha" are intended for children after 3 years.
Contraindications
Sea buckthorn oil should not be given to children with kidney and liver diseases, especially if the children are currently experiencing an exacerbation phase of a chronic illness. You should not give your child a medicinal substance to drink if he currently has diarrhea and indigestion, vomiting. The oil is contraindicated for problems with the gallbladder and pancreas. Outwardly, sea buckthorn oil is not applied to deep open wounds.
Dr. Komarovsky about sea buckthorn oil
The well-known pediatrician Yevgeny Komarovsky highly appreciates the amazing natural properties of the "royal berry" (sea buckthorn) oil. He recommends adding it to saline when rinsing the nasal cavity in the treatment of rhinitis of various etiologies. This is done so that saline solutions and subsequent instillation of drugs with antibiotics or vasoconstrictor drops do not dry out the nasal mucosa.
However, Evgeny Olegovich, recognizing the benefits of sea buckthorn oil, warns parents against treating various diseases on their own with this folk remedy. So, with some diagnoses, while mothers and fathers enthusiastically rub and bury sea buckthorn, it takes precious time for doctors to save the child and prevent the disease from becoming chronic and unwanted severe complications.
Sea buckthorn, according to Komarovsky, is very good. Especially if with the permission of a doctor and wisely.
And now the issue of Dr. Komarovsky dedicated to the topic "Adenoids", where we will be told everything about sea buckthorn oil.
You will learn more about the wonderful properties of sea buckthorn oil and how to prepare it yourself by watching the program "Living Healthy".
