Ozone therapy revisited
posted in - Fraud watch, - Palmdoc |It seems people are still looking for information on Ozone therapy in Malaysia, judging by incoming links from Google search to this site. Well, we’ve mentioned Ozone therapy before but perhaps I should point out to readers once again that our very own Ministry of Health has evaluated Ozone therapy before and you can read their evaluation report here (PDF format 196 Kb)
This was the MOH conclusion:
8. CONCLUSIONS
Current data on the usage of ozone therapy as therapeutic options for various health conditions lacks sufficient safety and therapeutic advantage over available conventional therapeutic modalities.
9. RECOMMENDATIONS
There is insufficient clinical evidence to recommend ozone therapy as a form of alternative treatment in patients with HIV AND infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, ischaemia, eye conditions, ENT, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic disorders, cancer and skin conditions.
Despite the MOH evaluation, Ozone therapy continues to thrive in Malaysia. We have seen unfortunate cancer patients subjected to ineffective ozone therapy resulting in their cancers progressing to incurable stages when they could have been cured if properly treated at earlier stages.
You can check out some horror stories in the MMR’s Death by Alternative Medicine series
Further reading:
Quackwatch - Oxygenation Therapy: Unproven Treatments for Cancer and AIDS
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