AUTOHEMOTHERAPY IN TREATING RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS

Abstract

Autohaemotherapy is giving of injection of homologous (self) whole blood in muscles of a man. This was a standard dermatologic treatment about 100 years back. In olden times the therapy was prevalent in Russia and China. The dermatologists used this therapy to treat various skin problems like chronic urticaria and eczema, ulcers, nger nail problems (infections, paronychia) and acne vulgaris etc. But the use of Autohemotherapy was stopped by the conventional dermatologists in early 1900 due to lack of general support. The resurgence of autohemotherapy has been there since 2000, not only by the dermatologists but also by the medical professionals in other elds. The medical professionals on the basis of recent investigations are of the opinion that Autohemotherapy has not only immense power to treat various dermatological problems, but it can treat medical problems of other elds also. Simultaneous to the skin problems the Autohemotherapy has been tried in different diseases like diabetes mellitus, bronchial asthma, chronic sinusitis, allergic conjunctivitis, allergic Rhinitis, GIT problems, lactose intolerance, connective tissue diseases, myasthenia gravis, bromyalgia, gout osteoarthritis, low back pain, autoimmune diseases (ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis), weight loss and problems of athletes. The results are signicantly positive. The medical professionals are of the opinion that the efcacy of Autohemotherapy is based on uplifting the immunity of the patient. One additional point in these studies is that in none of the studies no negative point has been mentioned against Autohemotherapy. In 1985 I came to know through a book on dermatology that Autohemotherapy has immense power to treat various dermatological diseases by increasing immunity level. I thought that when autohemotherapy can have its positive impact in cure of dermatological diseases then it should work for respiratory diseases also. Seeing all about the uplifting the immunity through autohemotherapy I tried to make my work on severe respiratory infection & COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) patients. COPD is a very important and common problem of community and it is characterized by chronic airow obstruction which is not fully reversible. The disease clinically manifests as persistent cough with expectoration with dyspnoea. The disease has difculty of cure and carries high morbidity, disability and death rate. The symptoms are always progressive and cause a great difculty in leading life. The study results were positive. I benetted more than 2000 patients of respiratory problem at that time. In this context my submission is that when we know that autohemotherapy improves immunity and gives faster and positive response to treatment given then steps must be taken to utilize its efcacy in treatment of various viral, fungal and bacterial infections.