Detox Bath

Sick Baby

This past two weeks my son and I have had a terrible cold. Body aches, slight fevers, horrible congestion, runny nose, and disgusting drainage… your usual cold symptoms. Which as adults we pop our favorite form of cold and flu remedy medicines and deal with it. But in children – especially the two and under category – being sick is horrible. And there is no medicine to help with the symptoms. So what should you do when your poor baby is sick – a detox bath.

After reading about the latest hype on detoxing, I found there’s a lot of different ways to detox, and most seem like they come with horrible side effects from your body trying to expel the bad stuff. Nothing I would want to make my baby go through on top of already having a cold. And let’s be honest here – nothing I personally want to go through either. And it seems like there’s a lot of things that you have to purchase to do the detoxing. I wanted something that I already had on hand – like water. So I read more about water detoxing. And basically that would be to just drink extra water so that your body can use it towards expelling waste. But there’s also detox baths that you can add all sorts of things to also.

Then the other day I was giving Thomas his usual bath and my sister who had apparently also been researching the detox bath as well, came in and said that we should try it.

Thomas’ Detox Bath

3 drops of Eucalyptus oil  

1/4 cup Sea salt or Epson Salt

1/4 cup Baking Soda

Squeeze of Johnson Johnson’s Baby Bedtime Bubble Bath Soap.

We dumped all that into his usual temperature of water and mixed it around for the bubbles. He loves having mountains of bubbles. And then we plopped him in the tub. In no time at all his nose started running.

After his bath his cough was gone, he was no longer choking on phlegm, he wasn’t sneezing. It made a world of difference. The effects of the bath though only last for less than 24 hours. But from what I read adults that are doing the detox bath are supposed to take about four baths a day to feel the effects for a cold. But on the plus side after a couple of detox baths his cold is very minute. Until I skipped it the other night and now today his cold is in full swing again. So tonight we will be having another detox bath. And Mommy might have one too.

Keep in mind that you want to keep them well hydrated. I have Thomas drink something like Poweraid or Gatoraid or even Pedialite, something that will help replenish the electrolites. He also drinks it after he gets out of the tub, while having a healthy snack.