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Authors: V.Simonetti, A. Rutigliano, W. Liboni, P. Biancotti, K.Strumia, M.
Simonetti
Corrispondence to Dr. Vincenzo Simonetti
ABSTRACT
Authors explain the rational that induced them to use ozone-therapy in
multiple sclerosis. First clinical observations about 23 patients (n=23) treated
with ozone, seem to encourage the application of ozonized autoemotransfusion
with other patients.
After six years the authors verified that 13 patients afflicted with autoimmune
pathologies (10 multiple sclerosis and 3 rheumatoid arthritis) continually
treated with ozone, the lymphocytary subpopulation stabilized in limits of
reference interval: level of T lymphocyte "helper/inducer" stabilized
during these years and the level of T lymphocyte (CD3+, HLA-, DR+) didn't
increase.
ARTICLE
Ozone-therapy is used for many years with large successes, attained with
orthopaedic [3, 4, 6, 10]nd vascular [1, 2,3, 5, 8, 11, 13] pathologies. For
these pathologies, if treated, it was widely described the anti-inflammatory,
antalgic, antibacterial and virustatic [3, 4, 6, 10, 13, 14] effect, perfusional
improvement of microcirculatory system [1, 2, 3, 5,8, 11, 13] then the
consequent disappearance of ischemic pain, the functional recovery of that
muscul-articular cluster previously compromise and/or the recovery of diabetic
ulcers: these effects significantly help to improve the quality of life of the
patients, to return very effective many pharmacological or rehabilitation
therapies, to shield some iatrogenic damages too.
The perfusional improvement of microcirculatory system allows a better use of
oxygen and of glucoses, stimulates the metabolic activation and the elimination
of catabolites, it's accumulation contributes to determine the inflammatory [3,
6, 8, 10]. In diabetic insulin-dependents patients, treated with GAET (great
autoemotransfusion), we had often reduce the therapeutic dosages of insulin.
With subcutaneous or intramuscular injections of O2/O3, we observed the sudden
disappearance of muscle-contraction headache, in tendonitis, in arthropaty, in
trigeminal neuralgia; the significative reduction of lymphedema in rheumatoid
arthritis, in erysipelas, in edemato-fibrosclerotic and post-traumatic
panniculitis; while with therapeutic firmer cycles, we obtain great successes in
treatment of backaches and repair of nervous peripheral lesions on trigeminus,
on SPE, on ramus sensitive/motor consequent to operation of herniated disk,
carpal tunnel syndrome, mixed tumor of parotid.
We and others ozone-therapists colleagues observed, after GAET great clinical
improvements, such to reduce or to suspend cortisones and FANS in patients
afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis; clinical healing for recurrent or several
herpetic infections; a great improvement in asthmatic pathology, such to permit
a reduction or a suspension of previous therapy used from many years. Many
ozone-therapists could observe favourable effects both in cases of
immunodepression and in cases of patients afflicted with autoimmune pathologies.
We published a work about immuno-modulator effect of ozone in lymphocyte
subpopulation [13]. In 1998 we valued the changes on lymphocyte subpopulation
with 38 patients afflicted with various pathologies.
Image 1
After six years we verified with 13 patients afflicted with autoimmune
pathologies (10 multiple sclerosis, 3 rheumatoid arthritis) with their therapy,
if a long-time treatment of ozone could determine some variations, in particular
on HLA-DR+ moiety. Lymphocyte subpopulations in treated patients, resulted
stable in limits of reference interval. Particular interesting resulted the
informations about T lymphocyte "helper/inducer" (subpopulation CD4+)
it level is a gauge of an adequate immunity competence and is a constant result;
the T lymphocyte (subpopulation CD3+HLA-DR+) that didn't increase.
J. Socrates Bardi of "The Scripts Institute" recently demonstrated IgG
have a bactericide action while they are releasing O3 by nature. [14]
The chief Bocci, Portolano, Sammartino and Luongo furnished documentary evidence
for ozone, that with adequate dose, doesn't seem to unwanted effects, but it
induces the activation of enzymes delegated to inactivation of free radicals (catalase,
superoxide-dismutasis, glutathione
) [3,6] and of disulfide points that are
forming during the growth and during the metabolism in aerobic conditions, with
consequent curative proteic action.
The chief Riva Sanseverino [8] demonstrated the good effect of ozone therapy on
macular circle in 1990. Dr. G. Amato showed that ozone has more hemorrhagic
properties than pentoxifylline.
The researches done by chief Amato, Berté, Bocci, Iliakis, Lettieri, Luongo,
Portolano, Raso, Riva Sanseverino, Rokitanski, Sammartino, Valdenassi
showed
us that GAET has a immune modulate effect and it can induce the circulation
reactivation: these studies were done to stimulate us to try oxygen ozone
therapy also with neurodegenerative diseases, with autoimmune neurological
pathologies and with cerebral vascular lesions, whether post trauma or post
thrombotic ictus or due to haemorrhage [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]
Why does ozone reduce muscular overtone? Does ozone act to neuronal level
and/or with fibromyocell?
Doing great autoemotrasfusion, the positive effect just described are slower
than doing local injections on tendon's insertion; but while local injection has
just local effects, the effect of GAET are more general for the body, and the
GAET gives a sensation of more well-being, more resistance to effort. For these
reason we do the GAET with immune and vascular pathologies. These successful
results of ozone therapy, obtained by or many colleagues and confirmed from us
directly, moreover the verified absence of important side effect, often present
with the various schemes of pharmacologic therapy, make us to try the ozone
therapy with patients with MS: the autoimmune etiology, the spastic and painful
semiotics, the often presence of asthenia and lymphedema, are for us a good
purpose to apply ozone therapy.
Until now we had 23 patient with informed consent, giving like end point:
- Reduction of pain due to spasticity and/or postural alteration
- Improvement of watch-sleep rhythm
- Functional improvement of venous lymphatic microcirculation, compromised by
alteration of neurovegetative and postural regulation
- Improvement of neurovegetative and sphincter function
- Watching the evolution and remission's time of symptoms due to seriousness of
pathology of inflamed lesions of cerebral and medullar parenchyma
- Slowing down of pathology progression
- Improvement of kinaesthesia
The clinical observations of 23 patients, let us observe that the usual
disability lists (FIM Ashwort
) don't contemplate enough steps to underline
ozone therapy effect, that, anyway, improve so much life's quality of patients.
Our clinic result are in line with starting task.
METHOD
GAET 240ml of blood
with 55 µg of ozone for 20 times, twice a week and a periodical recall every
2-3 month, it depends of seriousness of pathology
CLINIC CASE
Patient 30 y.o. with MS since 1996 with paresthesia of superior and lower
extremity, with dysesthesia of dexter emisome. The protocol of GAET was
practised (240 of blood with 55 µg of ozone for 2 months). In these 6 years the
patient recovered the symtomatology and he is clinically stable with a regular
social working life: the paraesthesia of superior and lower left extremity
disappeared, the facial left deficit and the dysesthesia of dexter emisome too.
It persist a disappeared paraesthesia on left knee. We observed radiogically a
sharp decrease of focus active previously.
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Image 3
CONCLUSION
The ozone therapy doesn't resolves basis pathology, but also it is a valid
therapy in multiple sclerosis, where it can improve the quality of life, without
serious collateral effects, especially in patients that can't submit themselves
to pharmacological treatment. This improvement reveal itself clinically with a
recovery more or less evidently in ratio of seriousness and chronicity of the
pathological reached state
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"More Chemical Evidence for an Antibody Killing Mechanism"
Image 1: The test evidences the increase of ratio CD4+/CD8+
and the stability of the lymphocitary subpopulation CD3+ HLA DR+
Image 2
Image 3: After 6 years, the patient is clinically
stable, without
changes of hyperintense signal in C5 with slight atrophic parenchymal image. For
sensitive disorder persists a feeble formication, a disappeared paraesthesia on
lateral side of left knee.
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