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Aroma Therapy in Neonatology

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Aroma therapy has become a well-established part of complementary and alternative medicine in pediatrics mainly because it is accepted and desired by many parents. However, the scientific base of several of these methods is often contradictory. This chapter provides an overview of data on aroma therapy in neonatology and tries to explain its physiological background.

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Thiel, M. (2017). Aroma Therapy in Neonatology. In: Buettner, A. (eds) Springer Handbook of Odor. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26932-0_37

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