OxyFile #292
Immunological Effect of Ozone (O3/O2) in Rheumatic Diseases Z. Fahmy Augusta-Klinik 6550 Bad Kreuznach, Germany Abstract The therapeutical application of ozone has proven its value in compensated autoimmune diseases as a support of immunsuppressiva therapy. Through ozone therapy, a rapid and effective elimination of pathological macromolecules and mediators is attained. Ozone and its popularity undoubtedly stems from the fact that it is less toxic than most other immunosuppressiva agents, rather than from is less efficacy. In clinical study 24 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were treated for 6 months with ozone as single therapy in combined form (nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug or disease modifying antirheumatic drugs DMARDs). Ozone has shown clinically and biochemically superior in combined form than single form. Ozone also demonstrate the ability to modulate cytoxine production. Publish Date: 1994