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A new study related to diabetes has led to a new discovery which claims that oxygen treatment can help diabetics heal foot wounds and avoid lower limb amputation.
Every 30 seconds a person somewhere in the world has to undergo lower limb amputation due to diabetes. Now, an international team has discovered in their study that oxygen can help in healing of the devastating wounds caused due to diabetes.
In their study, the scientists have designed the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which is the intermittent exposure of the body to pure oxygen under pressure for the healing of the chronic wounds that otherwise can lead to amputation.
Jennifer Flegg of Queensland University of Technology, who led the team, said that a small cut on the foot of a diabetic could have disastrous effects as their wounds do not heal in the same way as the normal wounds.
