Oxygen Therapy
Hypoxia is involved in environmental illness and migraine.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Dr. Paul R. Cheney, MD
Dr. Paul Cheney, now deceased, once used oxygen treatments for patients but came to the conclusion that oxygen toxicity is the fundamental problem in ME/CFS.
Dr. Cheney Goes His
Own Way: the Virginia 2009 Lecture
by Cort Johnson, Bringing the Heat: An ME/CFS Blog
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Albert Donnay
Albert Donnay, MS, MHS, identifies a MUSES syndrome, overlapping with MCS and other conditions, that is caused by the long-term effects of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Albert Donnay (personal communication, May 18, 2022) says, "I no longer recommend oxygen therapy for people with MCS (although it feels good) because the line between helpful and harmful is too thin. The higher the concentration of oxygen people inhale, the higher the concentration of carbon monoxide they make in response."
Further information will be forthcoming.
Biomarkers of MCS and MUSES Syndrome
Resources for Patients and Physicians
Protocol for the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of CO Poisoning (PDF)
Chemical Sensitivity and Dr. William Rea
American Environmental Health Foundation
Book: Chemical
Sensitivity: Tools, Diagnosis and Method of Treatment, Volume IV
by Dr. William J. Rea, MD [Amazon link:
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Migraine
Oxygen
Therapy
by Dr. George H. Sands, MD, October 25, 2007
As If the Damn
Headache Wasn't Bad Enough
by Dr. Michael Merzenich, PhD, On
the Brain blog, May 15, 2007
Updated 5/18/2022