State Officials Warn of Health Danger from Popular Essential Oils

State Officials Warn of Health Danger from Popular Essential Oils

Officials with the Tennessee Poison Control Center are warning that they are seeing an increasing number of toxic exposures, mostly involving children, to essential oils used in aromatic and homeopathic natural remedies.

TPC, which is housed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says the number of essential oil exposures doubled between 2011 and 2015, and 80 percent of those cases involved children.

TPC officials say the primary route of poisoning is by ingestion, but also occurs with excessive or inappropriate application to the skin. Children are at risk because their skin easily absorbs oils.

The oils, which have boomed in popularity can be applied to the skin, ingested, and even diffused into the air by a vaporizer.

The primary route of poisoning is by ingestion, but it may also occur by excessive or inappropriate application to the skin.

Children are at risk for poisoning because (continue reading at WKRN)

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