Essential oils used in OT?

[origami]

My DS2 has been in OT for years, mostly for upper body strengthening but also for attention issues. Yesterday when I picked him up he was telling me what they did and he described what I believe was the OT putting EOs on his hands. He was told this was to “exercise his brain”. I’m going to ask for more details at next week’s session. Until then, has anyone heard of OTs using EOs? Alarm bells are going off for me because this sounds like big time woo.

[waverly]

No I've never heard of it. Definitely get more info.

[sahara78]

Never heard of it either. I’d worry that the OT sells it on the side.

[jr009j]

Our OT used them when we figured out DD1 couldn’t smell, but that was a very specific purpose. I would not be okay with “exercising the brain”.

[origami]

Thanks everyone. I will be getting to the bottom of this on Wednesday