Flushing Essential Oils from Eyes with Milk?

[Guest guest]

Did I miss something in the discussion awhile back on what to do when

accidentally getting e.o.s into the eye?

 

I just read Martin Watt's Plant Aromatics(p.13), and it recommends

flushing the e.o.s out with cold milk - pref. whole - or water.

 

I read some people's posts that milk is a bad bad bad idea, but Martin

mentions milk before water.

 

Blessings

Diana

[Guest guest]

G'day Diana.

 

 

 

As a distiller, and having had (as have others) experience of EO in places

where they shouldn't go, I'd recommend lots and lots of cold water to flush

the EO away. EO will mix with milk, and that will slow the flushing

action..assuming large quantities of milk are to hand.

 

 

 

An alternative is to always wear safety glasses or goggles when working with

EO.

 

Regards,

Dennis

 

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Dennis Archer

Toona Essential Oils Pty Ltd

http://www.toona.com.au

 

 

On Behalf Of Diana Clausen

5 November 2006 16:00

 

Flushing Essential Oils from Eyes with Milk?

 

 

 

Did I miss something in the discussion awhile back on what to do when

accidentally getting e.o.s into the eye?

 

I just read Martin Watt's Plant Aromatics(p.13), and it recommends

flushing the e.o.s out with cold milk - pref. whole - or water.

 

I read some people's posts that milk is a bad bad bad idea, but Martin

mentions milk before water.

 

Blessings

Diana

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

This advice of using milk to flush essential oils out of the eye is

followed by " (or water " ),ie as second best. Essential oils and water

do not mix, therefore you need a substance that is safe to use in the

eye, will quickly emulsify the essential oil, thus allowing water or

more milk to flush it away *before the damage is done*.

 

Many Aromatherapy authors advise fixed oil which just does not remove

the essential oil quickly enough.

 

This is NOT just theory, I used to work for a large oil wholesaler and

saw this treatment work in practice several times. I recall one lady

who splashed peppermint oil in her eye and dashed to the tap. She was

in agony as the oil was trapped underneath the lower eyelid and the

water was not removing it quickly enough. I rushed for the

refridgerator grabbed a carton of milk and emptied that over her eye,

followed by a warm water eyebath to clean the emulsified milk/oil out.

 

This practice takes me back to the days when I was in the print trade

and using lots of different solvents. The advice if those got into the

eye was to flush with milk to dissolve the solvents which were not

water soluble.

 

It also takes me back to the days I advised a group of breast feeding

mums about herbal medicine. The first thing they did if a baby got

sore eyes was to squirt some breast milk into them. 9 times out of 10

that fixed the problem in no time.

 

Milk (human or cow) is anti inflammatory as long as you are not

allergic to it. Tap water often has loads of chlorine in which is an

inflammatory substance.

 

Martin Watt

 

, " Diana Clausen "

<flintridgefarms wrote:

>

> Did I miss something in the discussion awhile back on what to do when

> accidentally getting e.o.s into the eye?

>

> I just read Martin Watt's Plant Aromatics(p.13), and it recommends

> flushing the e.o.s out with cold milk - pref. whole - or water.

>

> I read some people's posts that milk is a bad bad bad idea, but Martin

> mentions milk before water.

>

> Blessings

> Diana

>