Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy be used to supplement normal diabetes management to ensure good limb health?
Hi! =)
I went to the podiatrist the other day and had my feet checked and they had to turn the dial up to 31 for me to even feel the slightest vibration on the soles of my feet from the machine.
I’ve had diabetes type I since I was 13, had a quadruple heart bypass last November.
Besides the ongoing insulin therapy, can I opt for HBOT to sort of improve my lower limb health, since mostly diabetic foot ulcers and general poor healing is a result of the constriction of arteries due to the decreased delivery of oxygen, and complicated by neuropathy?
Will Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy help in the long term to slow down limb health degeneration?
Thanks for your kind answers. =)
German Shephard, what do you think of this?
http://www.peripheralneuropathytreatments.com/HBOT.htm
January 1st, 2010 at 4:38 am
HBOT is done to speed the healing of foot ulcers, it does not treat the neuropathy. German Shepard
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
Yes. HBOT (Hyperbaric oxygen therapy) is normally accepted as a treatment for the following conditions:
•Neuropathy
•supplement for diabetes foot ulcer (ensures good limb health)
•Air/gas embolisms
•Crush injuries
•Decompression sickness
•Enhanced healing of selected wounds
•Exceptional blood loss
•Gas gangrene
•Necrotizing soft tissue infection
•Osteomyelitis
•Radiation
•Skin grafts and flaps
•Thermal burns
Benefits of HBOT
Hyperoxygenation : Increase the delivery of oxygen to the cells even in cases of tissue injury where less oxygen gets to and enhance better healing even in neuropathy.
Neovascularisation : Increasing the oxygen intake to the bloodstream promotes the formation of new capillaries (tiny, thin-walled blood vessels), which improve blood flow. HBOT increases blood flow and brings nutrients to the injured area which reduces swelling.
Antibacterial activity : HBOT also boosts the immune system; it enhances the killing ability of white blood cells, which can then destroy germs, toxins and free radicals. HBOT neutralises the bacterium Clostridia which grows in the absence of oxygen and causes gas gangrene.
More studies can be viewed at the following website: Chemist
January 4th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Yes. HBOT (Hyperbaric oxygen therapy) is normally accepted as a treatment for the following conditions:
• Neuropathy
• supplement for diabetes foot ulcer (ensures good limb health)
• Air/gas embolisms
• Crush injuries
• Decompression sickness
• Enhanced healing of selected wounds
• Exceptional blood loss Suraiya
January 5th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Yes. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy help in the long term in Diabetic neuropathy.
Diabetic neuropathy is a type of nerve damage that happens in people who have diabetes. This damage makes it hard for their nerves to carry messages to the brain and other parts of the body. It can cause numbness (loss of feeling) or painful tingling in parts of the body. Shawal