Lyme Disease and Hyperbarics | Turning the Corner on Treatment
The healing benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and Lyme.
Why it works
The tick-borne bacterium or spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) protects itself by creating a biofilm to hide from its host’s immune system. Nestling in tissues further protected by creating inflammation, and evading blood flow, Borrelia can often lie dormant for years. Often antibiotic therapies fall short of providing symptomatic relief, especially when blood flow cannot reach the bacteria so well guarded. With hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) the plasma becomes saturated with a high load of oxygen, not otherwise possible, resulting in an elevation of tissue oxygenation, bypassing the need for hemoglobin carried by red blood cells. Now, the bacteria hiding from its hosts immune warfare carried by blood, has nowhere to hide from the deluge of oxygen, which is lethal to this bacteria. Further, increased oxygen levels from HBOT can increase white blood cell activity and enhance the efficiency of bactericidal action of white blood cells.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Effects
On Neurological Conditions Associated with Lyme
Benefits include: Decreases neuroinflammation; enhances short term memory, reduces chronic fatigue; ameliorates chronic headaches; lessens depression; moderates insomnia.
On Mobility Improvement
Benefits include: Diminishes inflammatory-related arthritic pain; lessens muscle discomfort; increases energy levels.
On Antibacterial Activity
Induces angiogenesis to mobilize blood flow to affected tissue and bone; augments antibiotic intervention by driving spirochete out of biofilms; enhances white blood cell and immune activity; improves antibiotic cell wall penetration; increases oxygen free radicals to combat the Borrelia organism.
The Stram Center is the only free standing medical clinic offering high pressure steel chamber hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the greater New York State. Learn more about HBOT.
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