Hi @vashti, thanks for coming back to report your experiences and conclusions about using essential oils as a transplant recipient. You'll notice that I moved your message to the earlier discussion to keep the topic in one place so to speak as others will be interested in hearing about your experience.

You can see in an earlier post by @keggebraaten, she spoke with transplant pharmacy staff at Mayo. Like you discovered, our pharmacy staff says there have been reports of essential oils used on the skin interacting with prescription medications in unsafe ways. There is not a lot of science done yet on essential oils and prescription medications, so in most cases we do not know if mixing them together is safe or not. If you are using these or wish to do so, you should talk with your transplant care team and your pharmacist. For those who are using the oils, our pharmacy staff recommends always diluting them before putting them on your skin. They also recommend that transplant patients do not use these orally, meaning do not ingest any of the essential oils.

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