LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been around since the 1940′s, when it was first used to treat scuba divers who had decompression sickness. More recently, it’s become a successful treatment to help burn victims and heal wounds. During hyperbaric...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has shown promise in treatment for patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, according to a study published in Cellular Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a...
One of the earliest documented cases of HBOT to treat complications of Crohn’s disease (CD) was in 1989. It was a woman with "severe perineal CD that defied medical therapy for eight years". In this particular case the woman was treated with HBOT over a course...
The lowest point comes a few months later, when he undergoes an endoscopy-colonoscopy-biopsy. He has a bad reaction to the general anesthesia—as he comes out of it, his eyes bulge wide and he starts wailing, a loud, screechy sob that reminds me of ghok, the...
One woman with UC shares how hyperbaric oxygen therapy helped her recover from a severe flare.There is no cure for ulcerative colitis. It took me a long time to realize that the chronic condition is a lifelong journey with a number of therapies that can help along the...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was effective, safe and well tolerated in hospitalized patients with ulcerative colitis experiencing moderate-to-severe disease flares, according to data from a randomized, double blind, sham-controlled trial presented at the 12th Congress of...