Details About Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Overview

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy Dallas involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room or tube. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is known as a well-established treatment for a hazard of scuba diving, decompression sickness. Other conditions like include serious infections, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and wounds treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy that won't heal as a result of diabetes or radiation injury.

The air pressure is increased to three times higher than normal air pressure, in a hyperbaric oxygen therapy Dallas chamber. Under these conditions, lungs can gather more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure.

Our blood carries this oxygen throughout our body. This Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy helps fight bacteria and stimulate the release of substances called growth factors and stem cells, which promote healing.

Why it's done

Our body's tissues need an adequate supply of oxygen to function. When we go through any tissue injury, it requires even more oxygen to survive. This therapy increases the amount of oxygen our blood can carry. The increase in blood oxygen temporarily includes restoration normal levels of blood gases and tissue function to promote healing and fight infection.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy Dallas is used to treat several medical conditions. And medical institutions use it in different ways. Generally doctors may suggest hyperbaric oxygen therapy if one has one of the following conditions:

Anemia, severe

Burn

Brain abscess

Decompression sickness

Bubbles of air in your blood vessels (arterial gas embolism)

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Decompression sickness

Crushing injury

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Crushing injury

Gangrene

Deafness, sudden

Infection of skin or bone that causes tissue death

Gangrene

Nonhealing wounds, such as a diabetic foot ulcer

Radiation injury

Vision loss, sudden and painless

Skin graft or skin flap at risk of tissue death

The evidence is insufficient to support claims that hyperbaric oxygen therapy Dallas can effectively treat the following conditions:

AIDS/HIV

Alzheimer's disease

Allergies

Arthritis

Autism

Asthma

Brain injury

Cancer

Bell's palsy

Cerebral palsy

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Depression

Cirrhosis

Gastrointestinal ulcers

Heart disease

Heatstroke

Hepatitis

Fibromyalgia

Migraine

Multiple sclerosis

Parkinson's disease

Spinal cord injury

Sports injury

Stroke

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Risks

This treatment is generally a safe procedure as complications are very rare. But Hyperbaric oxygen therapy does carry some risk.

Potential risks include:

Temporary nearsightedness (myopia) caused by temporary eye lens changes

Middle ear injuries, including leaking fluid and eardrum rupture, due to increased air pressure

Lung collapse caused by air pressure changes (barotrauma)

Seizures as a result of too much oxygen (oxygen toxicity) in your central nervous system

In certain circumstances, fire — due to the oxygen-rich the environment of the treatment chamber

How you prepare

Pure oxygen sometimes can cause a fire if a spark or flame ignites a source of fuel. Because of this, one can't take items such as lighters or battery-powered devices into the hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber. Due to limit sources of excess fuel, one may need to remove hair and skin care products that are petroleum-based and potentially a fire hazard.  Always used to ask a member of the health care team for specific instructions before the first hyperbaric oxygen therapy session.