{"id":1655,"date":"2017-06-21T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2017-06-21T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T18:46:26","slug":"ozone-therapy-india-successfully-treats-patients-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/ozone-therapy-india-successfully-treats-patients-tb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozone Therapy for TB treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ozone Therapy in India successfully treats patients with TB. \u00a0<\/span>Great news story out about the use of ozone for the treatment of patients with TB.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Bhavesh Thakkar has been holed up in the depressing surgery ward of Asia\u2019s largest tuberculosis hospital in Sewri for over a year. Thakkar, 39, developed Empyema, <\/em>collection of pus in the pleural cavity. The condition requires drainage of pus from the chest every day.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Critical patients suffering from TB treated with ozone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cThe drainage bag would fill with a <\/em>litre of pus every day. I had no strength to stand, and had lost hope,\u201d Thakkar said. Ozone therapy, however, has turned around his deteriorating condition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRecently, doctors brought in a machine, and started me on a saline wash for the lungs through an incision on my chest.\u201d After 20 sessions, the leaking pus has stopped, and efforts are on to make Thakkar infection-free. He is on anti-TB medication and may need surgical intervention for damaged lungs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bisleri International Pvt Ltd donated the ozone therapy contraption to the Sewri TB Hospital two years ago. It lay gathering dust until a month ago when a group of surgeons felt that it could be useful for critical TB patients.<\/em><\/p>\n

The machine emits ultra-violet light sparks which split oxygen into free molecules and generate two per cent ozone and 98 <\/em>per cent oxygen. \u201cBasically, oxygenated ozone is sent through a tube mixed with saline. A saline wash is administered to infected wounds,\u201d said <\/em>Dr Lalit Anande, Chief Medical Officer, Sewri TB Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOzone has worked on patients on their death bed. It works as <\/em>painkiller and an <\/em>anti-inflammatory, has immunity-boosting <\/em>anti-oxidants, and kills germs. About 40 patients have benefited from the therapy so far,\u201d said <\/em>Dr Anande.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ozone therapy can also be administered through drinking water route for all TB patients and hospital staffers to boost their immunity, <\/em>Dr Anande said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The therapy was used during World War I to disinfect wounds, but somehow it has not seeped into the Indian fabric of treatment, says <\/em>Dr Kuntal Pal, a leading pulmonologist from Mumbai. \u201cWe will need to study the patients who are being administered the therapy at the Sewri TB Hospital to understand how well it works,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

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