Ozone Therapy In A Complex Treatment In Fatness-Associated Gestaion Complications
T. S. Kachalina, A. V. Soshnikov, G. O. Grechkanev.
State Medical Academy Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
It is known that obesity causes a great number of pregnancy complications. Traditional methods of prophylaxis which are used in the treatment of obese pregnant women are not highly effective. The aim of our investigation was to increase the efficiency of prophylaxis of fatness-associated gestation complications by including ozone therapy in the complex treatment of this pathology. 118 pregnant women with various stage of obesity were examined. The first group (71 patient) recieved ozone therapy, as a part of a complex treatment, in the form of intravenous infusion of ozonated physiological saline solution (ozone concentration in the ozone-oxygen mixture: 400 mcg/L) daily, 5 days. The second group (47 patients) received traditional prophylactic treatment. In the first group there were registered an increase in the activity of the antioxidative enzymes, as well as a decrease in the total serum lipids, normalization of blood coagulability in women with hypercoagulation. After comparing the course of pregnancy and labor in the two groups of patients an evident positive clinical effect of ozone therapy was achieved. Ozone treated patients had lower rates of gestosis, premature delivery, prolonged gestation, powerless labor activity. Thus, this results let us consider ozone therapy. in the complex treatment. as a promising method of prophylaxis of fatness-associated gestation pathologies.
Source: 3rd International Symposia on Ozone Applications, June 2000.