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Does HBOT help candida infections?

Can I rephrase your question?

Does oxygen treat infection and is it possible that more will help?

1. ALL metabolism is oxygen dependent so breathing is essential to controlling infection and one or two other things.
2. The normal control of infection is by the immune system using white blood cells which use oxygen to kill microbes. (Babior. Oxygen dependent microbial killing. New England Journal of Medicine 1978)
3. Infection damages capillaries and reduces oxygen delivery and leucocyte actvity.
4. More oxygen (HDOT/HBOT) may increase the delivery of oxygen to allow the infection to be controlled naturally.

In other words breathing a higher level of oxygen extends the normal envelope of recovery

Dr P B James MB ChB DIH PhD FFOM
Wolfson Hyperbaric Medicine Unit
University of Dundee

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