OXYGEN THERAPY | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Occupational Medicine | ||
| Article 7, Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 111-123 PDF (159.3 K) | ||
| Document Type: Study paper | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejom.2014.791 | ||
| Author | ||
| Helal SS | ||
| Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Faculty of Medicine - Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Oxygen is the life-giving, life-sustaining element. All body activities require oxygen. Long-term oxygen therapy is the only intervention known to increase life expectancy in such patients. The goal of therapy is to provide oxygen continuously (for at least 19 hours a day) at a level that alleviates hypoxemia, thereby avoiding cellular hypoxia, a condition in which the tissue oxygen level is so low that cellular metabolism is disrupted. Hyperbaric medicine is an emerging medical specialty which utilizes oxygen at greater-than-atmospheric pressure to treat a variety of disorders. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy saturates the patient’s plasma with oxygen resulting in increased oxygen delivery to tissues. Medical ozone therapy is a natural alternative used to detoxify, kill infectious disease causing by bacteria, mycoplasmas and virus organisms. Ozone disrupts the integrity of the bacterial cell envelope through oxidation of the phospholipids and lipoproteins. In fungi, ozone inhibits cell growth at certain stages. Ozone treatment is safe because healthy cells are surrounded by an enzyme coating, which ozone does not penetrate. Bacteria and viruses have no such coatings and are oxidized on contact by ozone. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a natural by-product of most ozone oxidizing processes. Hydrogen peroxide is another great natural alternative for health. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| O3 –H2O2-Hyperbaric oxygen therapy-Healing crisis | ||
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