Question 1

can you drink alcohol while undergoing treatment with a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

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Not at the same...: ...Time: alcohol is highly flammable in a hyperbaric atmosphere.

Question 2

can you treat parkinson's with a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

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Parkinson's: The research that has looked at this issue is not conclusive. This indication is not one of the those approved for payment from medicare so the cost burden returns to the patient.

Question 3

who cannot use a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

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The following:: Must not - people with a collapsed lung or are using medications that impair wound healing (cisplatin, sulfamylon), affect the lungs (bleomycin) or other (doxorubicin, disulfiram). Might not - those with asthma, claustrophobia, copd, pregnancy, an epidural pain pump, a pacemaker, seizure disorder, upper respiratory infection, high fever, eustachian tube dysfunction, or congenital spherocytosis.

Question 4

does a hyperbaric oxygen chamber help with recovering from a pcl injury?

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No: Hyperbaric oxygen promotes the healing of open wounds when the tissue is devitalized or has a poor blood supply because of diabetes, infection, radiation, or trauma. Although it helps with delayed or compromised healing of open wounds, it won't accelerate the normal rate of healing of a PCL injury if you already have a good blood supply with none of the above risk factors for poor healing.

Question 5

what are the effects of the hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

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Oxygen/blood supply: Best would be to look online-- in short, the pressure forces more oxygen into solution( in blood), and this non-cellular part of the blood, plasma, can nourish parts of the skin etc that are fed by small vessels, where the cells, which usually carry most of the oxygen, are too big to reach.  This, along with the formation of new blood vessels helps healing specific wounds.  +++++.

Question 6

can you explain hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

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Concentrated Oxygen : Hyperbaric oxygen (hbo) is a treatment designed to deliver high concentrations of oxygen to very specific types of wounds.  The patient is placed in a pressurized chamber (2x room pressure) which dissolves o2 into the plasma to help kill bacteria, maintain circulation to damaged tissue and reduce swelling.  There are only a few proven indications for therapy (see uhms.Org).

Question 7

could hyperbaric oxygen therapy make us age slower?

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No: I presume the answer is no as there is no scientific study related to this issue. In fact high oxygen flow for too long can cause inflammation in the lungs and that's studied. For normal people, there is enough oxygen in the air.

Question 8

what treatments can be helped by hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

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Hyperbaric oxygen: Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is a process where a person is placed in a room or chamber with high pressurized 100% oxygen. This delivers high levels of oxygen to the person and can be used to treat slow or difficult to heal wounds like diabetic or infected wounds. It can be a means to improve healing, to try to prevent the loss of an extremity, or treat serious wound sepsis.

Question 9

what is the definition or description of: hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

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High pressure oxygen: The patient is in a chamber that allows for the administration of oxygen under high pressure. This therapy can bring oxygen to tissues that may need extra oxygen for healing.

Question 10

what is hyperbaric oxygen therapy? what is it and what does it treat?

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Hyperbaric : Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (hbot) is the use of oxygen as a medication to treat certain disorders. The theory behind hbot is that the oxygen must be breathed while the body is exposed to pressures higher than sea level pressure. This allows more oxygen to be dissolved in the body's bloodstream. This is different than topical oxygen therapy (topox), which does not operate according to the same principles. One can think of oxygen as being the medication and the hyperbaric oxygen chamber as the pill, or injection, by which you are given the medication.

It has been classically used to treat scuba divers who have decompression sickness, but has also been used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning and patients with certain wounds that are not healing because the tissue is not getting enough oxygen. There are many different ways that the body responds to oxygen, and there is not enough space to describe them fully. You can follow this link to the undersea and hyperbaric medicine society for more information regarding the use of hbot.

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