Is there such a thing as ozone treatments in medicine? if so what are they?

Ozone therapy is a controversial practice that some practitioners and advocates of alternative medicine claim can be used for healing. These claims extend to a wide range of therapy. Ozone can be introduced to the body in many ways, including through water absorption, injection, transdermal application, insufflation (leaking the gas into the body). The gas is generally used at very carefully controlled levels.

Medical ozone therapy is recognized in Bulgaria, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Romania and Russia. It is currently used legally in 16 Nations. At least 12 states in the USA (AK, AZ, CO, GA, MN, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, SC and WA) have passed legislation to ensure that alternative therapies are available to consumers. Physicians in those states can legally use ozone as an alternative treatment in their practice without fear of prosecution.

At least one death has been attributed to the application of ozone through insufflation in the USA.[citation needed]

The U.S. EPA recognizes inhaled ozone to have a number of detrimental effects; "10 to 20 percent of all summertime respiratory-related hospital visits in the northeastern U.S. are associated with [ground-level] ozone pollution". [1]

Ozone has not been studied extensively in US, but the lethality of ozone to bacteria, viruses, and fungi is part of what is argued by some to be healthy for humans

ozone is the oxygens bound together.

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