HIV and AIDS

Monday, July 17, 2006

HIV and AIDS

Recent studies support the use of ozone therapy for people who are HlV-positive or have AIDS. In one, Dr. Michael Carpendale treated two male HIV-positive asymptomatic patients with colonic insufflations of an ozone/oxygen mixture intermittently for 180 weeks. Both patients increased their CD4 (T4) cell counts and one, after the 160th week, became polymerase chain reaction negative.

According to the doctor, both patients have remained in the best of health, with no infections and no adverse symptoms or malaise. 12

Dr. Carpendale's program consisted of ozone produced from a portable medical ozone generator13 insulated through a Teflon catheter into the patient's colon. For two years, the patients treated themselves daily, and then weekly, with a booster dose (for a total of 73 treatments containing 2065-2137 mg ozone).

CD4 cell counts were monitored about every two months. Studies showed that low doses of ozone in serum stimulated cell growth and larger doses began to suppress it. Furthermore, ozone was shown to reduce HIV in serum and did not adversely affect healthy cells.In another study, Carpendale and other researchers used colonic insufflations of medical ozone to treat five AIDS or AIDS-related-complex (ARC) patients with intractable diarrhea. Treatments were given daily for 21-28 days with doses of ozone ranging from 2.7 to 3.0 mg.

Three patients, whose diarrhea was of unknown cause, experienced complete resolution, and one markedly improved. The fifth patient, whose diarrhea was due to cryptosporidium, experienced no change. No adverse systemic effects were noted during treatment. Carpendale and his colleagues feel that the results of the study reinforce the findings of previous research on colonic insufflation ozone therapy, i.e., that it is simple, safe, and effective. Further, they assert that the treatment should be used routinely to treat chronic intractable ARC/AIDS diarrhea.14

By Gary Null, Ph.D.