Thursday, August 27, 2009

Re: [epilepsy] Re: TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY

 

Wendy,

How is the O2 administered? In the nose like I see people
around here who have O2? Is she on it all the time?

Millie

It is a perscription for a medical procedure that uses 100% oxygen
> from a tank.... There are units that will convert room air into
> condensed oxygen but it't far from 100%. Most of these units are
> soft chambers and only go to about 1.3ATA (Julia goes to 1.5 which is
> low for a hard chamber). You can rent a soft chamber and not need a
> perscription to get one. Honestly I don't know why oxygen is
> considered a drug but, I can understand the reasons. 100% tanked
> oxygen is flamable, it is not naturally occuring (100% oxygen that
> is). I know there's more but, it's late and I am not thinking
> clearly.
>
> On another hand Julia is doing GREAT she typically has 10 minute
> seizures and today most were seconds long and her longest was a
> whipping 3 minutes and 30 minutes later she had a 1 minute. I think
> total today she had 5 seizures. You have to understand that in July
> Julia was having seizures that were as long as 75 minutes. We had to
> be choosie with the seizures because we could have used diastat
> everyday but,we tried to restrain to once a week. Julia's PT came on
> Monday and was so shocked by Julia she said Julia is a totally
> different kid than she was 3 weeks ago. I am so excited about HBOT I
> will keep you all posted.
>
> Wendy
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Tammy Wolfgram<tammy@maccetera.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't understand how oxygen can be classed as a drug.....
>>
>>
>

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