Treatment of long and post-Covid: no evidence of benefit from “large ozone autohemotherapy”
07.06.2023 12:35
The scientific team of the IGeL Monitor has rated the IGeL “Large Ozone Autohemotherapy” for the treatment of patients with long/post-Covid as “unclear”. There is no study data to suggest that this procedure can relieve symptoms of long/post-Covid.
The scientific team of the IGeL Monitor has various databases according to relevant ones Studies and systematic Review papers searched and researched in so-called study registers, which list studies that have not yet been completed or published. It couldn't be completed study can be found that investigates the question of whether “great ozone autohemotherapy” can alleviate the symptoms of long- and post-Covid. Ongoing or as yet unpublished studies could not be located.
There are unwanted ones Side effects , which can occur in connection with “great ozone autohemotherapy”. However, these are rare and usually not serious. Since neither planned nor ongoing Studies are noted in study registers, no meaningful data can be expected in the near future from which a To use or Damage could be derived.
The term ozone therapy encompasses several treatment procedures. In ozone autohemotherapy, blood is taken from a vein, enriched with an ozone-oxygen mixture and then returned to the body. If the enriched autologous blood returns to the body via a vein, this is referred to in medicine as “large ozone autologous blood therapy”. The cost per session is approximately 70 euros. Typically 6 to 10 sessions are offered. Ozone therapy is intended to be immune-promoting Effect and counteract inflammatory processes. A better oxygen supply should also be achieved. However, these mechanisms of action are largely conjecture; They have not been sufficiently scientifically examined and proven.
After a Covid-19 illness, long-term or new physical and psychological impairments can occur that cannot be explained in any other way. Many sufferers report symptoms such as rapid and severe exhaustion (fatigue), shortness of breath, coughing or impaired ability to concentrate and remember. If these or new symptoms persist for more than four weeks after infection, this is referred to as Long Covid. At twelve weeks or more we speak of post-Covid. There is neither a clear diagnosis for this disease nor a specific treatment. The therapeutic measures are symptom-oriented.