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Minor Burns Can be Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

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First and second degree burns can effectively be treated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy, according to The Wound Center at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey.

An article in Newsroom New Jersey, Feb. 8, 2010 explains that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a “proven medical treatment that uses high-oxygen-pressure to treat mild burns.”

The treatment floods the burned area with oxygen, which helps to quicken healing. The treatments typically last an hour to an hour and a half, daily for up to 30 days.

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Helps Post-Radiation Patients

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help heal the damage that cancer patients receive during radiation, according to an article on KMBC-TV Feb. 3, 2010.
 
The article suggests that oxygen therapy can treat cells that are damaged during radiation and are not healing correctly.
 
Mary Brandon, a hyperbaric technologist quoted in the article said that the damange of radiation on cells can take months or even years to notice, but oxygen therapy can bring back a normal division of cells.

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