Hyperbaric oxygen in Lyme disease

Effects of Hyperbaric
Oxygen in Lyme

• Acts synergistically with antibiotics

  depending on their nature. It enhances angiogenesis (the multiplication of blood vessels in the body), favouring the action of antibiotics in tissues and organs that are normally less vascularised.

• Helps to penetrate the bacterial cell wall

  Studies show that antibiotics can be more easily incorporated in the presence of increased oxygen tension, which is greatly increased in hyperbaric therapy.

• Regulates the effects of host defense mechanisms

  In particular, the antimicrobial effects of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, impaired as a result of tissue hypoxia.

• Improves neuroplasticity

  And significantly restores abnormal brain activity corresponding to the pain-inducing areas of fibromyalgia.

• Protects against autoimmune reaction

  Induced by the presence of Borreliosis.

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials to date show that hyperbaric oxygen has positive effects in most cases.

In a six-year pilot study at Texas A&M University, 37 of 38 people treated with hyperbaric oxygen showed a significant improvement in symptoms three weeks after the end of treatment. Positive effects of this therapy were recorded in 70% of people even after six years. In another study conducted at the same university, 85% of the 91 patients serologically diagnosed as positive following hyperbaric oxygen administration showed "significant improvement, decrease or elimination of symptoms. All but one patient experienced Herxheimer reactions within five days of starting therapy. Most subjects showed improvement of symptoms after eight months".

In most studies, therapy consisted of one or two sessions of hyperbaric oxygen daily, at a pressure greater than 2.36 atmospheres, for one hour, five days a week, totaling between 30 and 60 sessions.