Lyme Disease Treated with HBOT
Fife W.P. and Freeman D.M. Preliminary Clinical
Study on the Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment of Lyme
Disease. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Hyperbaric
Laboratory, 1997.
Forty patients with Lyme disease were treated with HBOT
5 days per week for approximately 4 weeks. All but 2 cases improved, and
improvement persisted after HBOT was discontinued, even when they
discontinued antibiotic therapy. Symptoms that improved included mental
confusion, pain, depression and fatigue. This was a pilot study and has not
been confirmed. HBOT must therefore be considered experimental in treatment
of Lyme disease.
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