Immune Status During Ozone Therapy For The Profilaxis Of Infections After Cesarean
M.I.Kovalev y I.M.Clemente-Apumayta.
Department of obstetrics and gynecology, Moscow Medical Sechenov Academy, Moscow, Russia.
The percentage of birth by cesarean in our clinics averages 17 - 20 %. The postoperative infectious complications are still of great importance in the overall morbidity and mortality of these patients. The aim of this paper is to study the influence that ozone therapy exerts on the immune status after cesarean and the possible prophylactic effect in the postoperative infectious complications. 80 women, who had delivery by cesarean were treated on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th postoperative day by intravenous ozone solution (2 mg/L ozone in 400 mL 0,9 % NaCl). All the patients have got before and after the treatment a complete blood count and T and B cell differentiation. Immunoglobulins levels, phagocyte activity were also studied. The control group did not received ozone therapy, only trditional methods. The ozone treated group had significantly less infectious complications after the cesarean compared to the control group. An immune modulating action of the ozone therapy could be shown in the treated group, the mean quantity CD4+cell and phagocyte activity was higher in comparison with the control group.
Source: 3rd International Symposia on Ozone Applications, June 2000.