Imagine a space ship or a submarine with tiny round porthole windows and one of those wind open doors and you’re getting close. The chamber can seat about four to six people comfortably on padded chairs
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been around for a long time, originally invented to treat divers with the bends, the chambers are now widely used across the UK at local MS centres to treat not just MS but a wide range of other medical conditions and sports injuries.
The normal air we breathe is made up of approximately 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen but in the hyperbaric chamber you breathe 100% pure oxygen. This oxygen races around your body, dissolving in your blood plasma and in all the other cells, tissues and fluids in the body at ten times the normal speed it travels at.
To read more about studies which suggest oxygen therapy can indeed help alleviate allergies and even autism, read what Jane Dean has to say about “Hyperbaric oxygen and inflammation – how it can also be used to treat allergy and, maybe, even autism” on the Foods Matter website.
For the first ten minutes of the treatment you can chat and talk freely to other people in the chamber whilst the technician gets the chamber up to the correct pressure. Then the signal to don masks is given and we all put on our half face masks and settle in for the long haul.
You breathe 100% pure oxygen for an hour, during which time you can read, listen to music, play cards or just relax. I read a book and practised some yogic breathing; I actually felt myself relaxing so much I almost put my head back and let my eyes close.
I never sit down for an hour and just read or relax – so this forced inactivity was actually quite liberating. I really should take time out to meditate or just relax rather than rushing around all the time. It was incredibly relaxing. You become very aware of each breath in because you can hear it rushing through the mask. You can count how many seconds each breath takes, breathing in deeper and longer and experimenting with your breathing.
I might be imagining it, but along with an amazing sense of peace, calm and well being I also feel like I’m breathing more freely, and cycled all the way home without once wanting or needing to use my inhaler. Just a coincidence? Impossible to see improvements in such a short time? Who knows. Perhaps I was just buzzing from the exhilaration of a bike ride in the English summer sunshine (where did that go?). What I do know is that I’m actually now feeling really positive, motivated and excited about where this treatment might take me.
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This siounds very interesting I shall be praying that it works and following with interest the diary enteries and your follow up data. luv. you
Do you suffer from Asthma currently?
Are you on medications for it?
I am curious to know how you felt before and after the treatment.
Hi Troy, yes I do have asthma and lately it’s been getting worse, so doctors want to up the doses I take as precaution. The drugs for asthma do worry me so anything that can help will be good. I’ll certainly be comparing how I am pre and post treatment with regards to asthma, skin, allergies etc.