 Oxygen healing therapy can help many people with lungs diseases
Added: 10/13/2005 |
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The number of people with lungs diseases like asthma, emphysema or chronic bronchitis is pretty big these days. Such diseases cause breathing problems and people need additional oxygen. But the condition of most of these people can be significantly improved by healing therapy. Usually such a therapy includes oxygen breathing and, in case of long term oxygen therapy, oxygen must be used regularly.
Oxygen is gas that fills the atmosphere and it is very important for all living beings on our planet. Without oxygen mankind could not live. We do not notice oxygen in our everyday life but a human body needs it every second to produce energy. People with lungs diseases like emphysema and asthma cannot breathe properly because of the wrong functioning of lungs. So, these people need to breathe in more air to get more oxygen out of it or the air with higher oxygen concentration is needed.
The widely used healing therapy for such diseases is an oxygen therapy. Special equipment is used for such a healing therapy. There are two most widely used ways of storing oxygen, so there are also two sorts of equipment. First of all, the oxygen for breathing can be simply compressed. In that case it is placed into a cylinder made of steel or aluminum. Special indicators and regulators are attached to this cylinder to have an ability to regulate the amount of oxygen.
Another way to store oxygen is to chill it to the temperature when it becomes liquid and shrinks. Liquid form of oxygen can be stored in containers that are similar to a regular thermos. Thanks to the latest achievement in technology all these oxygen devices can be made portable so that people in need of healing therapy can keep the active life. But these oxygen containers are potentially dangerous and special measures have to be undertaken to avoid any accident.
All that makes the use of healing therapy with such devices a little bit complex. These days there are also special devices called concentrators which increase the concentration of oxygen in the air you breathe so that there is no need in a special container as in case of compressed of liquid oxygen. But such devices need electricity and usually they are also big and, thus, they are not portable. And, of course, the dosage of oxygen has to be chosen individually for each patient.
But there is also another similar healing therapy used for treating emphysema and other lung diseases. It is called long term oxygen therapy. The main goal of this method is a continuous use of oxygen and a certain amount of gas should be used every day for a very long period of time. But such a healing therapy has to be made under medical control. The duration of daily oxygen has to be carefully calculated (before the actual long term oxygen therapy series of special tests should be performed to find the optimal parameters of therapy for each patient).
The effectiveness of diseases treatment with long term oxygen therapy depends on every parameter. Usually long term oxygen therapy duration is about 20-30 months with average oxygen duration about 4 hours a day. Yes, it is true that this way of treatment takes a lot of time and efforts (and a long period of time is also needed to get used to oxygen equipment) but the results that have been shown in the latest tests are very promising. Although different aspects of the method are still being tested, the effectiveness of treatment of different diseases using a long term-oxygen therapy has been proven clearly.
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