Posted on 07/21/2017 3:34:25 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
Two-year-old Eden Carlson lost a significant amount of brain tissue after spending 15 minutes underwater. Director of Hyperbaric Medicine, Dr. Paul Harch, says she made remarkable improvements after being treated with oxygen for 45 minutes twice a day.
Weeks later, Eden’s parents brought her to New Orleans, and Harch put her in a hyperbaric chamber.
“I dosed it at the same level of oxygen but now with pressure, and she made another very noticeable improvement with just the first hyperbaric treatment and from there just accelerated,” Harch said.
In February of 2016, Eden escaped the baby gate in her home and fell into a near-freezing pool. Eden’s heart did not beat on its own for two hours, as doctors performed CPR for 100 minutes.
Harch says after multiple hyperbaric treatments, Eden could walk and talk again, something doctors said she would never be able to do. He says even more incredible was her brain, as the toddler actually regrew the brain matter she had lost. That was evident in the MRI scans of her brain.
“The MRI came back as ‘normal,’” Harch said, “She had regrown a substantial amount of lost brain tissue, and you could see it involve the entire brain.”
Harch says Eden continues to improve today. This is the first known case of growing back both white and gray brain matter. He says the potential for future patients with similar problems is enormous. He says it will allow for a forum to look at hyperbaric oxygen treatments.
“It’s a therapy that’s been around for 350 years, and the medical profession has missed the potential application of this therapy,” Harch said.
Sort of incredible claims, but a reputable organization and hard data to support it. Think what might be possible if such treatment could be started sooner.
The near-freezing temperature probably helped minimize the brain damage.
If only the Scientific Consensus of the Top Scientist and Doctors had not for so long been that nerve tissue cannot regenerate or repair itself, many other miracles could be achieved. I have to think that the fact this was a toddler producing mass quantities of stem cells for growth made this possible, however I agree the potential is enormous.
The therapy was probably aided by the patient’s youth. Stem cells, etc. A baby’s neurological system is not fully developed for a few years.
Can we do this on Congress?
Great idea. I certainly hope so.
This is a good example of something called the “diving reflex” that happens when young children fall headfirst into cold H2O. Also it calls into question the tendency to want to take children off life support after a day or two. NO WAY!! Don’t judge them brain-dead right away!! Their young brains have remarkable powers of regeneration.
The organ-donation teams hover around their bedsides pushing the parents to pull the plug “so that others may live”. I’ve seen it happen and it is disgusting. Give the kids a chance. Do no harm!!
Remarkable
I didn’t know they had hyperbaric chambers 350 years ago.
1772
‘From the greater strength and vivacity of the flame of a candle, in this pure air, it may be conjectured, that it might be peculiarly salutary to the lungs in certain morbid cases, when the common air would not be sufficient to carry off the putrid effluvium fast enough. But, perhaps, we may also infer from these experiments, that though pure dephlogisticated air might be very useful as a medicine, it might not be so proper for us in the usual healthy state of the body; for, as a candle burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air. A moralist, at least, may say, that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve.’
Wow! God is good.
There was a facility called the Cunningham Sanitarium that
housed up to 40 patients in a 5 story, 65 foot diameter 900 ton steel sphere. It cost a million dollars to build, equivalent to around 14 million dollars today. It was demolished during WWII and sold for scrap metal. You can read an interesting history here...
https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/378#.WXKLj5qL9hE
Be sure to check out the pictures - very Buck Rogers retro.
Wondering of Charlie Gard could benefit from something like this.
My first posting here was about hyperbaric oxygen treatments for brain damage. I’d been lurking here for some time; and was a close follower of all the Terri Schiavo threads. This article appeared in the local paper shortly after she died. I joined up, just to post it. (No one warned me of the addictive qualities of this site; else I might have stepped away from the keyboard.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377209/posts
It is a well known fact that the brains of young mammals develop more with greater sensory, especially tactile, stimulation. So in addition to the hyperbaric treatments, they should put him in a sensory stimulus suit.
Skin nerve receptors include cutaneous mechanoreceptors (pressure), nociceptors (pain) and thermoreceptors (temperature), each of which are associated with different nerves.
There should also be a wide range of audio stimulation, especially in the higher registers, such as violin music, as well as visual input, maybe set up as an interactive game.
Even a wide range of odors should be introduced to the chamber, as curiously odor recognition forms some of our most durable memories.
Certainly true, but well-known (and also applicable to more than just the brain), but the massive cell regrowth indicated is new (certainly new to me).
Wasn’t Joseph Priestly behind a lot of that research. I know he invented the process of concentrating carbon dioxide to create artificial mineral water.
CC
Lordy but that is true....... :^)
All correct, but I think the order of magnitude of regeneration is new to science. I wonder what would happen with stroke victims.
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