Recently, more and more popular is the treatment with active oxygen - ozone therapy. The effect of this gas on the body can be carried out in different ways, but the most common methods are subcutaneous injections and intravenous injections. About the indications for ozonotherapy and will be discussed below.
Properties and use of active oxygen
Ozone due to its instability has a powerful antibacterial effect, has high antiviral activity, has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect. It also normalizes metabolic processes at the cellular level, cleanses the body of toxins, improves blood circulation.
Treatment with active oxygen is shown when:
- diseases of the musculoskeletal system - ozone helps to cope with arthritis (including rheumatoid) and arthrosis , relieves pain in the joint region, stimulates the processes of tissue regeneration;
- infectious diseases of bacterial and viral etiology - the strongest antiseptic properties of ozone are indispensable in the treatment of hepatitis, herpes, furunculosis, diseases of the genitourinary system, as well as the ear, throat, nose;
- infections and allergies - ozonotherapy with asthma, scleroderma, eczema, neurodermatitis makes it possible to modulate immunity, while providing antiseptic effect on resistant to other drugs, microorganisms;
- vascular diseases - active oxygen has a beneficial effect on blood microcirculation processes, normalizes lipid metabolism and blood cholesterol, minimizes the risk of thrombosis, which is indispensable in the treatment of dystonia, hypertension, diabetes, thrombotic disease.
Indications for ozonotherapy are pancreatitis, cholecystitis, ulcer disease, dysbacteriosis, giardiasis, helminthic invasion.
Another use of active oxygen
Well proven ozone in the treatment of alopecia and other trichological diseases. Ozone therapy for hair allows you to deliver nutrients to the hair follicles by improving the tissue respiration, and also to increase the flow of blood to the follicles. This stimulates the growth of new hair.
Ozonotherapy is also used in dentistry - thanks to the disinfecting properties of active oxygen, it becomes possible to quickly clean the tooth and root canals: literally 20 to 30 seconds inside the tooth, caries -free, there is no bacteria left. Ozone also helps to get rid of fungal diseases of the gums, ulcers, accelerate the eruption of wisdom teeth.