Hydrogen Perioxide, Ozone, and Oxygen Therapy???

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Today's Question

 

Hydrogen Peroxide, Ozone, and Oxygen Therapy?

 

What's your opinion on oxygen therapy using 35 percent food-grade hydrogen

peroxide?

 

-- Anonymous

Today's Answer(Published 09/24/1996)

 

The term " oxygen therapy " covers a lot of different treatments. One involves

putting a person in a special high pressure (hyperbaric) chamber to breathe

oxygen under pressure. This has been reported useful in the treatment of AIDS

and other serious illnesses, and I would be willing to give it a try. Football

players sometimes use these chambers with the expectation that their injuries

will heal much faster than normal.

 

The use of hydrogen peroxide and ozone for medical purposes is much more

controversial. The theory behind these substances is that many diseases,

including cancer, result from a lack of sufficient oxygen in tissues of the

body.

 

Of course, oxygen is vital to cells. Ozone is believed to break down into a

single oxygen atom plus a molecule of regular oxygen, thus increasing oxygen in

the tissues and supposedly promoting healing.

 

It is well-known that many disease-causing germs can be killed by exposure to

oxygen. That's why you use hydrogen peroxide in wounds.

 

But that's a weak preparation, and it's not going inside the body.

 

Both hydrogen peroxide and ozone are highly reactive chemicals and strong

oxidizing agents, meaning they can attack many nearby molecules.

I wouldn't want them in my body.

 

I would certainly not let any practitioner inject hydrogen peroxide into me.

And I don't think anyone should drink it.

 

The Food and Drug Administration went after hydrogen peroxide therapy as

fraudulent for claims that it had antimicrobial, anti-tumor, and antiviral

activity.

 

One of the reasons people take antioxidant vitamins and minerals is to prevent

the oxidative damage caused by chemicals such as hydrogen peroxide and ozone.

 

You can't have it both ways here - hydrogen peroxide and ozone can't both

promote healing and be so toxic.

 

Use 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to wash superficial wounds, or save it for the

next time you have a yen to go blond.

 

 

 

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