Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment for Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a long-term illness with a wide range of symptoms. The most common symptom is extreme tiredness. Chronic fatigue syndrome can affect anyone, including children.
The main symptom is feeling extremely tired and generally unwell. In addition, people may have other symptoms including:
sleep problems
Muscle or joint pain
Headaches
A sore throat
Problems thinking, remembering or concentrating
Flu-like symptoms
Feeling dizzy or sick
Fast or irregular heartbeats
Most people find overexerting makes their symptoms worse. The severity of symptoms can vary from day to day, or even within a day.
There is not a specific test for chronic fatigue, so it’s diagnosed based on the symptoms and by ruling out other conditions that could be causing symptoms.
Although it is not known exactly what causes chronic fatigue, there are a number of theories – for example, it may be triggered by an infection, or certain factors could make you more likely to develop the illness
Viral infections, such as glandular fever
Bacterial infections, such as pneumonia
Problems with the immune system
A hormone imbalance
Mental health problems, such as stress and emotional trauma
Your genes
Hyperbaric Oxygen And Chronic Fatigue
In a study designed to analyse the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of chronic fatigue syndrome, sixteen patients who had been diagnosed according to the Fukuda criteria received 15 treatment sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy over a period of three consecutive weeks (five days per week). The outcome measures such as Fatigue Quality of Life Score were assessed before and after the fifteen sessions.
After hyperbaric oxygen, the patients’ scores were found to have improved with respect to all outcome measures. The group concluded that hyperbaric oxygen decreases the severity of symptoms and increases the quality of chronic fatigue patients. It is suggested that it could be a new treatment modality for the management of chronic fatigue.
Read this study here - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23682549/
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