What is your opinion on HYPERBARIC OXYGEN TREATMENTS

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Expensive curbie propoganda. The one thing that helped me was chiropractic adjustments but I think it's just the same effect Temple Grandin got from her squeeze machine.

I knew something so stupid could only come from south florida.

I thought this was just for Terrell Owens and other pro athletes... guess anyone will try to make a buck trying to "cure" autism.

It was been show to not working...

Hyperbaric oxygenation therapy has really no known benefit to people who suffer of ASDs. Oxygen and mitochondial problems in the neurons that make up the brain have been suggested to somehow contribute to psychosis-related disorders, but little is known about that topic as well. At this point in time, hyperbaric oxygenation therapy should not be used on people with ASDs.

Highweight acidmaker, lawks!

Isn't HBOT used for divers who don't acclimate to air pressure? Why is it being used for autism?

It can be difficult to sort out what hyperbaric treatments really do/don't do/possible side-effects. At the moment it appears to me it is a new money-making bandwagon which is being promoted in a lot of places. Know of an adult woman who had several concussions over the years, the last one being from a car accident who had a series of hyperbaric treatments over months, then years, who felt that the hyperbaric treatments simply did not live up to the hype at all and simply did not deliver the kind of the results she had so fervently hoped for at all. Personally I do not believe that classic autism is due to a lack oxygen molecules and that supplying oxygen molecules will fix all of autism at all.

And it has been shown to promote wound healing, for which it was used in the First World War, although there are far better treatments now - world-class athletes use hypberbaric oxygen therapy for injuries, but I suppose any additional advantage is worth exploring in that case.

Mostly hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an expensive scam on a perpetual search for new suckers - Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Down's syndrome, Lou Gehrig's, CFS, fibromyalgia, poisoning (imagined or real), cellulitis, Gulf War syndrome, Lyme disease and toxic bites are all there with autism. These are all conditions where it is easy to use some multifactorial, semi-subjective measure of success that will always be true, and where people can be engaged in a process with high emotional investment in a positive outcome.

Thanks for the info - it reminds me of those 19th Century cure-all potions - except with fancier and more high-tech labels.

Oxygen at high preasures is toxic, oxygen poisoning a nasty lung rotting condition which also ruins the eyes. Have people considered if the high preasure oxygen treatment could cause injury through oxygen poisoning ?

It could, only the HBOT treatments they use for autism aren't at a high enough pressure or at a high enough oxygen concentration to be anywhere near the danger zone. Essentially, they're placebos--most HBOT programs could be duplicated simply by moving to a lower elevation.

There is the fire risk, of course. That much oxygen in one place...
Fire, Fatal Injury, and Claims of Certification in an Independent HBOT Clinic

That video has been on youtube since 2008. I know for a fact that hyperbaric oxygen treatments work really well for wound healing. I have worked as a nurse treating people with this. However, I would like to see the results of all the studies that she claims have been done on this for treating autism. I'm a bit skeptical.