To ask if anyone knows about using an oxygen canister at home - bought off internet and love to know how people use and what results you get

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Hi - this is a new world for me.

I've just had an operation and am not healing as fast as they would hope - wound site still inflamed.

And I gather oxygen in the blood helps! So I bough a canister off the internet from a reputable company and have been breathing in 10 breathes twice a day.

Does anyone on here use oxygen canisters for anything? I gather people use for sport? feeling tired? other stuff?

Three questions:

1. How do you use it
2. What sort of results do you get
3. And have you heard of people using it to help them heal?

Degree of histrionics here. Small portable lightweight canisters are readily available all over now - for sports, altitude, health, 'recreation'. I'm guessing that is what you are using OP, rather than medical grade compressed tanks.

A distant relative of mine was killed when their prescribed oxygen tank exploded in an arson attack.

Don't mess with oxygen tanks.

@Oakandlove are they really? I was in a shopping centre earlier and found an intravenous vitamins kiosk so shouldn’t be surprised by these things being available but still....really? What recreational use is there for oxygen? (Sorry if I’m being dense!)

Sorry but the terms Oxygen cannister and reputable source cannot possibly be used in the same sentence.

As for portable oxygen being available now to buy, just because you can buy it doesn’t mean that you should buy it.

I have recently been on oxygen in hospital because of cardiac issues, and even there it is highly checked with SATS etc being taken regularly and the amounts adjusted accordingly and this was on an ICU ward where pretty much every bed has an oxygen supply “just in case.”

Even if there is some advice re oxygen after surgery you really should discuss it with your consultant before resorting to quack remedies on the internet.

Your local district nurses should have some advice re wound healing. Are they already visiting you/you them for dressing changes? It's worth discussing whether a different dressing might improve the speed at which it heals.

If not - try your GP and/or see if you can get an outpatient appointment with the team who operated to get someone to look at it.

Other than that, do the other things that will help you get better overall - take any painkillers on schedule (so you're more able to move around and do things) and keep drinking enough and eating as normally-for-you as possible.

It was not a reputable company OP.

Oxygen cylinders are not supposed to be sold to the general public.

I'm an anaesthetist and we require special authorisation to aquire our oxygen.

Too much oxygen in the blood stream is dangerous, and I have never heard of oxygen therapy for wound healing.

We use laser therapy for acceleration of healing but it is always carried out by a trained professional.

Hyperbaric oxygen is great for healing wounds / failed skin flaps in certain situations. Breathing it in won’t have that same effect.

😳 🙄 seriously?
You'd be better off checking your nutrition and fluid intake, I'm pretty certain inhaling oxygen per se won't have a single benefit whatsoever (as pp have said, if your O2 levels required oxygen therapy you would be very unwell and in hospital ffs)

Rather than oxygen, have you tried homeopathy? Far more sensible route than consulting a medical professional if a wound is not healing.

Adding to the chorus of disbelief above.

Oxygen in the blood most certainly helps, if you don't have any you will surely die. But your blood can only hold so much oxygen, you cant load in extra if you don’t need it and your O2sats will have been checked at hospital.

It was quite fashionable at festivals a few years back, great way of separating people from their money.

I assume you don’t smoke? Smoking can seriously delay wound healing.

Madness.

Do you smoke? If you do, that might be why your wound isn’t healing.

If you really want to do that properly find somewhere that does oxygen therapy. Don’t do it this way. Too dangerous

This cannot be real, surely?!

You can also get some amazing dressings nowadays if you have a covered wound that help with healing. Speak to your practice nurse or district nurse team

I'm a nurse and when I qualified 16 years ago there was an old wives tale about egg white and oxygen being applied directly to wounds. I did come a cross one of older colleagues blowing oxygen on to the bum of a baby with horrible nappy rash. I doubt there is any scientific evidence for it though.

Not going to pile in on what a bad idea this is (although it is..whoops I just did) but I do remember about 10/12 years ago reading in Heat magazine that Britney Spears used O2 canisters which was supposed to be great for her skin/looking good etc. I think they even suggested places to buy them from so this idea of self administering O2 for health is not new.

10 breathes twice a day?

I really don't think that's going to do much for your blood oxygen levels.

Leeches are good, I hear.
And less explosive.

How many litres did you buy? What pressure is it at?

Well, this wins my ‘dumb idea of the week’ award which is particularly impressive when the backdrop is Brexit. At best it will do nothing for you...

I'm going to enjoy this thread, I just know it.

Glad I don't live next door op.

..I am a nurse. This is strange!

What a very bizarre thing to do. Ten breaths twice a day is going to do absolutely nothing, but I’m not advocating increasing this in any way. Did you buy this from some crank site that promises all sorts of crazy benefits?

Another one saying it’s not a reputable website if it’s sold you 100% Oxygen. We use it for “recreational” purposes and it’s still tightly controlled with relevant qualifications needed before we can get it.

Oxygen toxicity is a thing, OP - be extremely careful how much you’re using it and make sure you’re recording how much you’ve had and when just in case.

As PP have said, athletes often use hyperbaric therapy to speed up healing but that’s a bit more fancy than simply breathing in oxygen for 2 x 10 mins a day and is done under strict supervision. You’ve been conned, OP.

If you’re concerned about slow healing there are different dressings you can try in consultation with a medical professional .

Surely not

If this is real, then I would love to know what reputable company sells O2 canisters online, to people who don't know how to use them, for oxygen therapy they have decided they need without medical advice?

Please take a picture of your GP's face when you tell them what you have been up to and post it here.

It seems it is available on Amazon.
It’s quite expensive.
To say it’s active ingredient is fresh air.