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Some other forms of oxygen therapy are not potentially dangerous, but merely worthless wastes of time and money.  Drinking so-called "oxygenated water" is a useless quack [[patent medicine]].  This product is sometimes found in health food stores.  Inhalation of oxygen has legitimate medical uses, but is useless in treating diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
 
Some other forms of oxygen therapy are not potentially dangerous, but merely worthless wastes of time and money.  Drinking so-called "oxygenated water" is a useless quack [[patent medicine]].  This product is sometimes found in health food stores.  Inhalation of oxygen has legitimate medical uses, but is useless in treating diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
  
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* [http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69317.cfm Sloan-Kettering fact sheet on oxygen therapy]
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* [http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/oxygen.html very extensive article from quackwatch.com]
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Oxygen therapy or hyperoxygenation therapy is a quack medical treatment claimed by its proponents to treat several diseases including AIDS and cancer. The term, oxygen therapy, is a catch-all term for several different treatments which include ingesting or injecting hydrogen peroxide, ozone therapy of various kinds, drinking so-called "oxygenated water" products, and the inhalation of pure oxygen.

Oxygen therapy is completely ineffective and potentially dangerous.

Oxygen therapy is based on the false notion that cancer cells and viruses cannot survive in a high-oxygen environment, and that a low-oxygen environment encourages infectious diseases. This is not only untrue, but when various oxygen therapies have been scientifically tested with AIDS patients in double blind studies they were found to worsen their condition. Laboratory studies have also found that high oxygen levels encourage the growth of new cancer cells rather than hindering it.

Some of these treatments, which include "autohemotherapy" (drawing blood from the patient and bubbling ozone through it, then reinjecting it into the patient), and ingestion or injection of hydrogen peroxide, can be potentially dangerous or deadly. Hydrogen peroxide is only useful used externally to disinfect wounds. Taking it internally or through injection or enemas can lead to any number of dangerous effects such as gas bubbles forming in the liver, destruction of red blood cells, and kidney failure. Likewise, the inhalation of ozone at high concentrations can lead to respiratory irritation and coma.

Some other forms of oxygen therapy are not potentially dangerous, but merely worthless wastes of time and money. Drinking so-called "oxygenated water" is a useless quack patent medicine. This product is sometimes found in health food stores. Inhalation of oxygen has legitimate medical uses, but is useless in treating diseases such as cancer and AIDS.

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