Oxygen treatment 'can help diabetics'
Oxygen treatment could be a method used more and more by sufferers of diabetes.
It has been suggested oxygen equipment could be used to help diabetic patients with ulcers to recover more quickly, WNDU.com reports.
According to the source, the technique is saving people from having limb amputations as the ulcers can become increasingly problematic.
Blood flow to the affected area is often stunted in sufferers of diabetes, but oxygen therapy is being increasingly utilised to prevent this.
Derall Garrett from the University Community Hospital in Tampa said: "They [patients] absorb it into their plasma and by getting it into the plasma that will actually get oxygen to an area where there's inadequate blood flow."
As well as diabetic wounds, the treatment can also be used to heal trauma injuries, bone infections and radiation burns.
It was recently revealed Tiger Woods is planning to build a new house that contains a specially-designed oxygen therapy room to help him recover from golfing injuries.
Posted by Stewart Elliott
10/06/2010 15:29:18
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